The Magazine of the University of Indianapolis Fall 2014

Hounds on the hunt The University’s newest crop of freshmen—who set yet another enrollment record—swarmed downtown during a Welcome Week scavenger hunt, “collecting” city landmarks. Page 3.

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Table of Contents 4 6 8 20 President’s forum Health Pavilion Scholarly pursuits Breath of fresh air We’re making great progress making progress Find out what UIndy AJ Salkowski ’04 ’07 is on on the Vision 2030 strategic Ground has been broken faculty are publishing, a mission to improve the plan, thanks in no small part and foundations are being presenting, and researching. respiratory health of Native to your input and support. laid for the 160,000-square- Plus, archeology students Alaskan children, and he’s Our freshman class is one foot building, where donor dig into a county’s history, visiting remote rural of our most academically support is helping shape and music students soothe villages, one bush plane qualified ever. Plus: the the clinical facilities within. souls at a local hospital. or ice-road ride at a time. Champions Challenge. 7 18 22 5 Selling a school Scripting the 2014–15 arts season Meet the Champions The world of K–12 perfect job The Christel DeHaan Fine Challenge education is competitive, DyNishia Miller ’14 has a Arts Center is celebrating its Launched this summer, and marketing a school may passion for helping people, 20th anniversary! Join us at the one-year Champions offer a big advantage. Two and she’s putting it to good UIndy this year for jazz, Challenge campaign aims UIndy profs collaborated use with her new job as theatre, art shows, writers, to generate funding for on a book that aims to help the press secretary at the musical events, and more. programs and capital schools—whether public, Indiana State Department Be sure to check the full improvements in UIndy’s private, or charter—attract of Agriculture. calendar at uindy.edu/arts! Department of Athletics. the right students.

On the cover Greyhounds raced around downtown Indianapolis on August 21, collecting photos and and answers as part of an Indiana-related scavenger hunt. More than 900 freshmen were welcomed to campus this fall, bringing the total enrollment to nearly 5,500 students. 2 PORTICO FALL 2014 Alumni Association Board of Directors 2014–15 Amy Johnson Burton ’94, President Adam Campagna ’07 Jill Davis ’03 Nikki Grotenhuis Reed ’07 Andy Hammond ’06 Tim Harris ’02 Dawn Hay ’10 Zarah Hileman ’07 Kent Holaday ’92 Bonnie Holdrof ’89 Fenrick James ’04 Mike Kenworthy ’09 Wendy Pitts Knapp ’00 Clance LaTurner ’01 David Myers ’95 Juan Paz ’95 ’96 ’99, Past President New freshmen Mikayla Little, Alayna Wozniak, Sam Bennett, and Jamie Gilles snapped this photo Anita Kolkmeier Samuel ’98, in the rotunda of the Indiana State Capitol. The photo was their answer to one of the challenges in President-Elect the “All-In” digital competition designed by Indiana Humanities to challenge Hoosiers to “think, Matthew Redshaw ’07 read, talk, and do.” Challenges were completed by visiting such landmarks as the Soldiers & Sailors Ryan Scott ’01 Monument, Indianapolis public library, and White River State Park. The day ended with a picnic Greg Seiter ’89 and baseball game at Victory Field, where more than 200 UIndy alumni joined in the festivities. Tom Shively ’01 Michael Shurn ’71 Beenu Sikand ’99 Mike Solari ’07 24 28 Vicky Swank ’80 ’99 Homecoming 2014! Class Notes Kelly Thompson ’02 Uche Unogu ’08 A zip line down Hanna Meet Andy Kocher ’98, The magazine of the Avenue, a 5K run/walk, a the new vice president for University of Indianapolis Nick Williams ’10 parade of golf carts, classic alumni engagement, and cars, and bands, plus a read the lastest news from Jen Huber ’07 Nondiscriminatory parking lot full of tailgating your classmates. Portico Editor and Assistant Director Policies Greyhounds are waiting for Publications for you at this year’s The University of Indianapolis 37 does not discriminate on the Homecoming on October R. Peter Noot ’77 ’84 Getting involved basis of race, color, gender, age, 25. See you on campus! University Editor and with UIndy religion, ethnic or national Director for Publications 26 A night at the Indy Eleven origin, marital status, sexual soccer game, a baseball game Jeannine Allen ’10 orientation, or gender identity Sports update with 600 of UIndy’s newest Art Director and expression irrespective of The Greyhounds are gearing students, and a chance to whether the status is legally up for another great year, help on move-in day were Mary Atteberry ’07 protected. The University having garnered several some of the latest alumni Vice President for complies with the Rehab- championships and confer- activities. Check out the Communications & Marketing ilitation Act of 1973 and the ence titles last year. See upcoming events, including Americans with Disabilities Scott Hall what the teams are looking Halloween on campus and Act. This policy applies to Director of Media Relations forward to, and learn about the Dessert Diversion at the applicants and employees and the launch of the new men’s Stierwalt Alumni House. to all aspects of employment. and women’s lacrosse teams! Please send correspondence and address changes to [email protected]. WWW.UINDY.EDU 3 President’s forum Record numbers Starting the year right

Another academic year is under way at UIndy. Implementation of the Vision 2030 strategic plan is progressing well. Construction of the UIndy Health Pavilion has begun. Our master’s in public health program began as well. We are close to being able to share with you a new design for our Krannert Memorial Library. We’ve hired our men’s and women’s lacrosse coaches so they can begin building their programs in preparation for our August 2015 launch.

Your input and feedback has been crucial to the formation of our strategic plan. Great universities have great alumni, and I am thankful for all of your help in making our past year a success. One way that we judge the success of our work is through the alumni and friends who choose to support us with an annual gift. Giving over the past year included 4,226 donors, more than half of whom are alumni—and the number of alumni donors increased more than 5 percent over last year. Your generosity ensures that we can continue to deliver our unique education to the most worthy students.

In August we welcomed our largest freshman class ever. In fact, we are now home to a record 930 freshmen from many states and countries—exceeding last year’s freshman class by nearly 150 Dr. Robert L. Manuel students. And these new freshmen represent one of the most academically qualified new classes in University President University history. The average GPA for our new freshman class is close to 3.5 on a 4-point scale, and includes 21 valedictorians and salutatorians. Almost all of our students come to us with volunteer or leadership experience, making them a nice fit with the traditions we hold dear.

Our newest international students hail from Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rico, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, and Zimbabwe. Some 40 transfer students come from our sister university, Ningbo Institute of Technology, in eastern China.

Over the years, you have been supportive of all our University’s efforts. UIndy continues to grow in a number of important ways, and I am hopeful that you will continue to support our work.

One new way to support the University is through our new Champions Challenge. All of our athletic programs are now competing consistently on the national level. UIndy had a stellar 2013–14, with four GLVC (Great Lakes Valley Conference) team championships, 19 teams in postseason play, a national NCAA discus champion, and a Division II softball Pitcher of the Year, and a No. 4 national ranking in the Directors’ Cup—our highest ranking yet among the 312 Division II programs. We are building on this momentum with the Champions Challenge campaign (see opposite page) to invest in all our athletics facilities and programs. Our goal is to raise $500,000 to create additional direct investments in our athletics program. I hope you’ll help us meet that challenge.

Robert L. Manuel

4 PORTICO FALL 2014 THE CHAMPIONS CHALLENGE: ENHANCING UINDY ATHLETICS

Already known for athletic and academic excellence, the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds are seeking support to cement their status among the elite of NCAA Division II.

A new one-year Champions Challenge campaign aims to generate funding for programs and capital improvements that will propel UIndy’s athletics program to the next level.

An anonymous donor has pledged $250,000 toward a matching gift program, with all new unrestricted gifts of at least $25 to UIndy Athletics qualifying for a 2-to-1 match. For those who provided support last year, the 2-to-1 match also applies to any increase in unrestricted giving of at least $25. Renewed unrestricted gifts to the Greyhound Club booster organization will qualify for a 1-to-1 match. The funds will address a variety of needs.

“Our student-athletes have performed extremely well in competition and in the classroom, and they deserve the best experience we can provide for them,” said Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Sue Willey ’75, a Greyhound Hall of Fame athlete who was named Under Armour Division II Athletic Director of the Year for 2012–13.

The Greyhounds wrapped up the 2013–14 year by placing fourth among 312 Division II institutions in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, awarded by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics based on overall success in NCAA- sponsored championships. UIndy is among just five D-II institutions to earn three consecutive Top 10 finishes in the Directors’ Cup standings.

For the third-straight year, UIndy led the Great Lakes Valley Conference with 223 Academic All-GLVC athletes and claimed the GLVC All-Sports Trophy, awarded for best all-around performance in the league’s 20 sponsored sports. On top of all that, the Greyhounds also won this year’s GLVC Commissioner’s Cup, a traveling trophy awarded for success in the seven core conference championship sports.

UIndy offers 21 men’s and women’s sports, a number soon to grow with the addition of Indiana’s first Division II men’s and women’s lacrosse teams. See page 27 for more details about the program.

To contribute or learn more about the Champions Challenge, please visit www.uindy.edu/championschallenge.

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Construction of health pavilion now underway

It may be difficult to A host of city and state officials were on hand June 19 when the University broke ground on its four-story, visualize the completed $28-million UIndy Health Pavilion. A pair of special announcements punctuated the event. “What we’re celebrating today is about relationships and about our connection to the city,” said project now, but it President Robert Manuel. “We’ve always been a university of and for Indianapolis, and I am so grateful to will be clearer in the everyone here today for their advice, for their creativity and for their efforts in designing what will be an fall of 2015, when the incredible academic and community center in Indianapolis.” The 160,000-square-foot structure will be the home of UIndy’s nationally respected programs in new facility (on Hanna nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, kinesiology, athletic training, and social Avenue between work, as well as the Center for Aging & Community. State-of-the-art labs, classrooms, and meeting areas Mathews and State) will promote multidisciplinary collaboration, research, and development of new academic programs. The space will include clinical facilities and a rehabilitation gym to serve the community and give students opens its doors. experience working with patients. Annis gift, role in state health network announced The groundbreaking ceremony included two special announcements. First, a $250,000 gift from the R. B. Annis Educational Foundation will help to equip and support programming in the health pavilion’s planned 140-seat auditorium. Dan Yates, trustee of the R. B. Annis Educational Foundation, said of the Foundation’s gift: “The late Robert B. Annis and the University of Indianapolis have had a long successful history of supporting education for students and supporting the community, beginning decades ago when Robert Annis and his fellow Sciencetech Club leaders began to produce the Central Indiana Science Fair on campus. “When the University brought an opportunity to the Foundation to support programming in the Health Pavilion, the Foundation’s trustees felt this to be a unique opportunity to honor Robert Annis’s memory. We are very proud the new auditorium will bear the name R. B. Annis Auditorium.” UIndy also has been selected to operate, from this new space, the Metropolitan Indianapolis/Central Indiana Area Health Education Center, part of a statewide network that recruits and prepares healthcare professionals to work in underserved Indiana communities. The UIndy Health Pavilion, a major step forward in the revitalization of University Heights and the surrounding neighborhoods, is part of the University’s five-year, $50-million development initiative.

6 PORTICO FALL 2014 Selling a school Education & business profs collaborate on school marketing advice

The researchers already have written white papers on the subject, receiving “best paper” and “best presentation” awards at a recent national conference. Angelov and Pettinga also co-taught a marketing course this summer in UIndy’s new MBA program for educators, which is preparing local teachers and administrators to take on greater leadership roles in their buildings and districts. Azure Angelov & Deidre Pettinga Along the way, they have identified common misconceptions about the role of marketing in Words like “product” and “consumer” don’t ‘If you just education, as well as a number of success stories. always come easily to people who are devoted Many educators, for example, think of marketing to teaching, but the rise of charter schools and try to gloss only in terms of communication, promotion, and school vouchers has created a highly competitive advertising, without seriously considering whether over a bad environment in which families have choices about their type of education meets community needs. where to send their kids for K–12 education. “If you just try to gloss over a bad product, product, Without the traditional geographic customer consumers are going to see through that right base, even public school leaders have to face the away,” Pettinga says. consumers fact that their success increasingly hinges on The marketing principles in their assessing consumer preferences, tailoring the are going to forthcoming book—including the “four P’s” product accordingly, building relationships of product, place, price, and promotion—are with their customers, and tracking the results— see through accompanied with real-life case histories. Positive in other words, marketing. examples from the Indianapolis area include Fortunately for them, two UIndy faculty that right Goodwill and its expanding array of Excel members are collaborating on a how-to book of Center charters, which have built a strong niche away’ sorts, tentatively titled Educational Marketing: in serving dropouts from other schools; IPS More Than Just Telling Your Story. Superintendent Lewis Ferebee, who launched his Collaborating across academic disciplines, turnaround efforts with a media-savvy “100-day Associate Professor Azure Angelov of the School plan”; and Wayne Township’s Lynhurst 7th and of Education and Assistant Professor Deidre 8th Grade Center, which engaged its community Pettinga of the School of Business began the with a radically new approach to parent-teacher project two years ago. Angelov and a colleague conferences that resulted in 100 percent from Shippensburg University had been working participation. on a topic of particular interest, special education Among their points: Facebook and Twitter in charter schools, when they realized there was may be cheap ways for schools to communicate, an emerging field to explore. but social media campaigns can backfire if not “So much of it was coming back to well planned or managed. business and marketing,” says Angelov, who The professors say their advice can be helpful says the current shift in education could be as to schools of all kinds, whether private, charter, revolutionary as the impact of desegregation or traditional public institutions. decades ago. “We decided we needed a “We’re not advocating one type of school over business perspective.” another,” Pettinga says. “We’re simply saying that Enter Pettinga, with her professional and these are best practices in terms of marketing.” academic background in consumer psychology and integrated marketing communications.

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

Anthropology & Archeology Athletic Training No bones about it NFL hopefuls get a leg up Krista Latham ’03 (Biology & Anthropology) and seven In March Scott Lawrance ’03 ’10 started his two-year term as Human Biology graduate students of the University of president-elect of the Great Lakes Athletic Training Association, Indianapolis traveled to the Mountain, Desert, and Coastal which will be followed by a two-year term as president. At the Forensic Anthropologists meeting in Boulder City, Nev., in GLATA meeting in March in Chicago, he co-authored the May. UIndy had a strong showing with five presentations: case study poster presentation “Effects of the Female Triad “Over the River and Through the Woods” by Justin Maiers Leading to Femoral Neck Fracture” with athletic training and Latham; “A Case of Dismemberment in Northern graduate Kara Pratt ’14, and “Lateral Ankle Sprain with an Os Indiana” by Erica Christensen ’14 and Latham; “An Interest- Trigonum in a College Tennis Athlete” with athletic training ing Case Study from Indiana” by Jessica Campbell and graduate Jessica Lawson ’14. Stephen Nawrocki (Biology & Anthropology); “No Bones In May Lawrance was part of a multi-institutional team About It: Projects at UIndy Outside of Forensic Anthropol- of researchers collaborating on a poster, “Effectiveness of a ogy” by Ryan Strand; and “An Update on the South Texas Multidisciplinary Training Program for Improving Elite UBCs Analyzed at the University of Indianapolis Archeology Athlete Skills and Physical Attributes,” at the American & Forensics Laboratory” by Latham. College of Sports Medicine meeting in Orlando. The study In addition to the presentations, Latham served as the is the first to present the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary program coordinator and moderator for the meeting. Megan approach for elite athletes training for the NFL Scouting Madonna ’14 handled fundraising efforts at the conference, Combine. He also assisted and co-authored with Damon which raises money for student travel and research grants. Martin ’14 and Nick Voelker ’14 in presenting their capstone Maiers coordinated the annual bone quiz, which tests its project, “Relationship Between Functional Movement Screen attendees’ knowledge of skeletons. and Select Attributes of Physical Performance in Collegiate In April Christopher Moore ’04 presented “Dwelling Wrestlers” at both the GLATA meeting and the National on Abundance in the Ohio Valley Archaic” as part of a Athletic Trainers’ Association symposium in Indianapolis in symposium on the archaeology of abundance at the Society June. Also at the NATA Symposium, Lawrance delivered a for American Archaeology meeting in Austin, Tex., and a featured learning lab, “Honing Your Palpation Skills Through paper on archaic bone tool types at the spring workshop of Stereognosis Drills,” and received a NATA National Service the Indiana Archaeology Council. He also co-presented Award recognizing outstanding volunteer service to the “Mission San Joseph de Sapala” at a conference on Franciscan profession at the state and district levels. missionaries in the Americas held in St. Augustine in March. At the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association in His co-authored paper “Who Were the Guale?”was published March, Christine Lauber and Lawrance presented “A Bridge in New Perspectives on Spanish Missions in the Indigenous to Nowhere or Somewhere? How to Span the Gap from Landscape. He co-authored two papers presented by students Student to Clinician” and “Do Pre-Admission and Athletic Ethan Bean and Kylie Holmes at the Indiana Academy of Training Program Standards Predict Student Academic Success Science meetings held in Indianapolis in March. and First-Time Pass Rate on the Board of Certification Exam?” Christopher Schmidt was celebrated in an Indianapolis In June Lauber and Lawrance received the National Athletic Star column headlined “Five overlooked yet influential Trainers’ Association Athletic Trainer Service Award at the Hoosiers.” Schmidt, director of the department’s Indiana NATA Clinical Symposia and AT Expo in Indianapolis. Prehistory Laboratory, is cited for such accomplishments as a student archeological dig that uncovered a 10,000-year-old Art & Design bone tool, the oldest ever documented in Indiana. He’s one of just two contemporary figures on the list, which also includes The friar & the squire at the airport 1830s Indian leader Chief Menominee and Underground From August 4 until November 16, Dee Schaad (professor Railroad supporters Levi and Catharine Coffin. emeritus) will have a display of his clay works “Pilgrims on the Way to Canterbury” at the Indianapolis International Airport. His installation in the Concourse B exhibition case presents characters inspired by Chaucer’s pilgrimage stories in his 14th-century prose poem The Canterbury Tales, but casts them as contemporary travelers in modern “tourist” dress.

8 PORTICO FALL 2014 UIndy team plans archaeological survey, applies for grant

Assistant Professor Christopher Moore ’04 and a former student-turned-colleague are organizing a substantial archaeological project in southern Indiana’s Floyd County. Moore and UIndy research associate Rebecca Van Sessen ’13 are applying for a $50,000 state grant to conduct a countywide survey that will identify sites of interest, from the earliest prehistoric settlements along the Ohio River to 20th-century houses and buildings. The goal is to create an official record of potential archaeological resources before they are lost to construction projects or the passage of time. Van Sessen, who grew up in Floyd County, earned her master’s degree in anthropology from UIndy in 2013. To support their application for funding from the state’s Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Moore and Van Sessen are gathering letters of support from local residents and permission slips from Floyd County Anthropology research associate Rebecca Van Sessen spent landowners who are willing to allow surveys of their part of the summer of 2013 excavating a 600-year-old property. If the funding is obtained, they will lead a student village site on the Ohio River in Hardin Village, Kentucky. team in conducting the survey during the summer of 2015.

Biology Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning A weed by any other name Sandy Davis published “Sexual Dimorphism of Staminate- Early College model starts strong and Pistillate-Phase Flowers of Saponaria officinalis (Bouncing Interest in the Early College model continues to grow; more Bet) Affects Pollinator Behavior and Seed Set” in the journal than 50 school teams have participated in six introductory PLoS ONE with Jenna Nawrocki ’13 as co-author. New Schools workshops over the past two-and-a-half years. For schools who have completed a New Schools workshop, Center for Aging & Community CELL plans to offer continuing technical assistance and consultation as the schools implement Early College programs. Home sweet home This year, CELL has expanded the scope of its work to include The Center for Aging & Community will offer a workshop, targeted efforts to cultivate a relationship between the Early “Home Sweet Home: Home Modification Assessment,” on College model and innovations in the Career Technical November 7–8 in Indianapolis. The workshop is designed Education field. A separate network has been formed for CTE to provide human service and housing professionals with centers interested in implementing Early College programs, the knowledge and skills to conduct a performance-based and there are plans to offer a New Schools introductory assessment of a person’s health, capabilities, and home workshop specifically for CTE centers, addressing the unique characteristics and to design recommendations and challenges and opportunities faced by the centers. specifications for tailored home modification interventions The Education Workforce Innovation Network co-hosted to enhance independence, safety, and quality of life. a conference in July with the Center for Education and Career CAC, along with Sage-ing International and Memorial Innovation. “Align, Engage, Advance: Transforming Indiana’s Brainworks, will host a 2014 Spirit & Place Festival event Workforce” featured multiple expert speakers in the morning, November 12 at the Wheeler Community Arts Building. including a keynote address from Lieutenant Governor Sue The event, From Aging to Sage-ing, will tap into the wisdom Ellspermann. The discussions centered on the Indiana Career gained as we age and give participants an opportunity to use Council’s Strategic Plan, which included recommendations for journaling and wisdom circles as a way to capture and share increasing educational attainment and strategies for regional that wisdom. English professor Elizabeth Weber and CAC implementation. As EWIN—a partnership between CELL Executive Director Ellen Miller will be among the presenters and Indiana’s Education Roundtable—enters the second half for this interactive event. of its grant period, it will continue to focus on convening and collaborating with partners and integrating the state’s various

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regional initiatives. Additionally, EWIN seeks to include Journalism competition. Colleges and universities compete in Indiana’s industry leaders in meaningful, targeted conversations this contest on an equal basis, regardless of the school’s size. about their role in the future of education in the state. Also in the spring, student Anna Wieseman, managing editor of the two papers, won a Eugene S. Pulliam Internship College of Arts & Sciences through the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation and Service-Learning Office spent her summer working at the Zionsville Times Sentinel in Zionsville, Ind. Three years and counting The University has been recognized by the Burmese American Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs Community Institute for an outstanding three-year partnership in engaging with and serving the Burmese communities of Hard work pays off Central Indiana through service-learning and volunteer Jeremiah Gibbs, one of the University’s two chaplains, initiatives. Jen Drake, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, completed and defended his dissertation, “Postconservative and Marianna Foulkrod ’01 ’04, director of Service-Learning, Apologetic Method: A Constructive Proposal.” In May, he accepted the award at a ceremony in July on behalf of UIndy. completed his PhD in Theology and Ethics from Garrett- Drake delivered the keynote for the event. Evangelical Theological Seminary. The collaboration between UIndy and BACI started as an effort to generate educational opportunities for students English at UIndy as well as the Burmese community. UIndy students and faculty have been serving at BACI through volunteerism Teaching English as a Second Language and service-learning initiaves. UIndy hosts the Upward In July Kyoko Amano presented “Creative and Marketing College Summer Scholar Programs for Burmese students in Genius of Louisa May Alcott: From Jamie’s Wonder Book to Perry Township, which gives UIndy students the opportunity Will’s Wonder Book” at Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House to work with the Burmese youth in teaching standardized test Summer Conversational Series and Teacher Institute in prep, essay and technical writing, intensive research, study Concord, Mass. and life skills trainings, leadership development, college The English Department will begin an undergraduate admissions and scholarship application assistance, and many concentration and minor this fall in Teaching English as a other educational programs. UIndy students also have worked Second or Other Language, along with its graduate-level with BACI staff to develop a community resource guide for TESOL Certificate Program, offering prospective and current the new immigrants. teachers opportunities for coursework and training in teaching UIndy, in partnership with Stellenbosch University in English as a Second Language in domestic contexts and South Africa, will host the Sixth International Symposium English as a Foreign Language abroad. The need for teachers on Service-Learning May 28–30, 2015, on UIndy’s campus. to receive high-quality professional development in ESL The ISSL has become a vehicle through which service-learning continues to expand, owing to the growth in the past 15 years research can be shared within the higher education arena. In of Indiana’s K–12 and college-level ESL populations, and addition it serves as a catalyst for new initiatives in countries overseas institutions’ increasing requirements for EFL teachers. interested in engaging in experiential learning and community UIndy is well-positioned to address these training engagement. Last year the symposium in Stellenbosch, South needs, given its experienced faculty, local partnerships, Africa, hosted 180 delegates representing eight countries and and international connections. English Department faculty 40 institutions. members Toni Morris, Jessica Bannon, Karen Newman, Miriam Olver, and Fei Fei will offer coursework in the new Communication program, which also will expand its offerings in the coming years to encompass a master’s degree in TESOL, and, in Impressive hardware conjunction with colleagues in Modern Languages and the In April the Reflector and the Reflector Online won 15 state School of Education, initial teaching licensure in ESL. journalism awards in Division II of the Indiana Collegiate Morris is serving as the director of the program. Press Association competition, including a second-place This past spring, Morris presented “Challenging the Newspaper of the Year award. The ICPA contest is a statewide One-Shot Professional Development Workshop Model” at the competition judged by professional journalists at out-of-state LERN conference in Ft. Lauderdale, and “Assignments for newspapers. Jeanne Criswell, director of the journalism History of the English Language Courses” at the International program and adviser to the Reflector and the Reflector Online, Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Mich. This fall, was elected to a 14th term on the ICPA board of directors. she will present “The Continuing Popularity of Sherlock In May the two papers won eight state-level Society of Holmes: Sherlock and Elementary” at the Conference of Professional Journalists awards in the Best in Indiana Adaptation Studies at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla.

10 PORTICO FALL 2014 Prof to direct Master of Public Health program

Assistant Professor Shannon McMorrow has been appointed interim director of UIndy’s new Master of Public Health degree program, which begins this fall. McMorrow joined the Department of Kinesiology in August after earning her own MPH from San Jose State University and working as a community health education practitioner for more than 10 years in various settings across the United States, Belize, and Uganda. “Shannon’s global experience in public health makes her a terrific choice to lead UIndy’s MPH program,” said College of Health Sciences Dean Stephanie Kelly. “In addition to her depth of experience, we think students will be well served by Shannon’s passion for highlighting and addressing health disparities between groups of people around the world.” UIndy’s Master of Public Health is one of few in the nation focusing on health disparities. It will be one of the only such programs in Indiana offered primarily online.

History & Political Science Kinesiology The Civil War in Indiana Working out and eating right Edward Frantz’s book A Companion to the Reconstruction This spring Matt Beekley and Mindy Hartman-Mayol Presidents 1865–1881 (Wiley-Blackwell) was published in June. published “Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Evidence Analysis A. James Fuller published “Oliver P. Morton, Political Library Update on Nutrition and Athletic Performance” in Ideology, and Treason in Civil War Indiana” in Ohio Valley Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Mayol, Briana History. He presented “Becoming the Soldiers’ Friend: Scott, and Beekley published “Multi-Dimensional Wellness Organizing the Home Front in Civil War Indiana” at the Outcomes Among Undergraduate Students: A Comparison Indiana Association of Historians meeting at Anderson Study” in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Hartman- University in March. He presented “Oliver P. Morton and Mayol and Scott published “The Relationship between the Northwest Conspiracy” at the 2014 Illinois History Multi-Dimensional Wellness and Self-Esteem in College Symposium at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill., Students” in Research Quarterly for Exercise & Sport, RC in March. He also published four book reviews in scholarly Convention Abstract Supplement. Hartman-Mayol, Lisa Hicks, journals between January and June 2014. and Heidi Hancher-Rauch published “A Multi-Dimensional Wellness Curriculum with a Multi-Level Focus in Higher Education” in the Indiana AHPERD Journal. Hicks, K. Lee Institutional Review Board Everett, and Hartman-Mayol published “The Effects of an Humans protecting humans Extended Wellness and Coaching Program on Blood Profiles in College Students” in Medicine and Science in Sports and Greg Manship, institutional review board coordinator and Exercise in May. human protections administrator at UIndy, was reappointed Shannon McMorrow (interim director of Master of to a second three-year term on the Membership Committee Public Health) presented “Photovoice as an Innovative of Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research, an Intervention to Address Disparities in Obesity Among African international professional organization for human research American Youth” at the Health Disparities Conference at protections. He reviewed abstracts for presentation at 2014 Columbia University in New York in March, and at the annual conferences for the Association of Practical and International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society in Professional Ethics and the American Society for Bioethics Vancouver, Canada, in March. and Humanities. In March Michael Diacin and Jennifer VanSickle Manship received the doctor of bioethics degree from presented “Volunteering with Special Olympics: Examining Loyola University Chicago in May. Capstone projects were Student Motives to Serve Individuals with Intellectual a narrative ethics case study of transitioning from curative Disabilities” at the Southern Sport Management Association to palliative treatment in advanced cancer, and analysis of a conference in Nashville, Tenn. They also published the article new needs assessment survey for strategic planning of ethics in the journal Palaestra. VanSickle was part of a group that programming in health care organizations. Manship is one of presented “Creating Intentional Learning Communities of approximately 20 recipients of the degree to date, and is the Engaged Scholars” at the Service-Engagement Summit in only recipient in Indiana.

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In early July Associate Professor of International Relations Douglas Woodwell traveled to Washington, D.C., to serve as a featured speaker for a special event hosted by the Truman National Security Project, an institute dedicated to developing the next generation of leaders in the realms of politics, policy, and the military. The program, “Ukraine and the Future of Nationalism in International Conflict,” is described as “an intimate conversation on Ukraine and what challenges the United States will face as we seek to find a policy approach that balances the protection of sovereign states’ territorial integrity with support for national self-determination.” It took place July 7–9 at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Headquarters. “It was a neat experience to be having a conversation about a lot of the most important issues of the day—from Ukraine to Kurdistan—with people that have been, or currently are, deeply involved in the decision-making processes at some pretty high levels of government,” he said. “There were people there who work with places like the State and Defense departments doing daily analysis and consulting in crisis management.” Woodwell, who holds a PhD from Yale University, specializes in the study of international conflict. He blogs about global issues at woodwellontheworld.net.

March. Diacin presented “Designing Public & Community Krannert School of Physical Therapy Relations Plans for Sport Organizations” at the 2014 North American Society for Sport Management Teaching and Highest honor in the nation Learning Fair, in May in Pittsburgh. VanSickle collaborated In June William Staples ’05 ’10 was invited to Washington, with the five other members of her Indiana Campus Compact D.C., to attend the National Quality Forum on Alzheimer’s Faculty Fellows group to present “Creating Intentional disease. He represented the American Physical Therapy Learning Communities of Engaged Scholars” for the 2014 Association as the only physical therapist on the committee. ICC Service Engagement Summit. The committee was established to provide the government In April at the American Alliance for Health, Physical with input to establish priorities in health care policy for Education, Recreation and Dance National Convention in people who have dementia and their caregivers. Staples St. Louis, Mo., Hartman-Mayol and Scott presented “The also received APTA’s Lucy Blair Service Award during the Relationship between Multi-Dimensional Wellness and Self- association’s NEXT Conference & Exposition in Charlotte, Esteem in College Students” and Hartman-Mayol, Hicks, N.C., in June. The award honors members who have made and Hancher-Rauch presented “Perceptions of a Targeted exceptional contributions to the association through district, University Health & Wellness Program: Healthy Diploma.” chapter, committee, section, task force, or national activities. Scott and Hartman-Mayol were part of a group in April that presented “Validation of the Multi-Dimensional Wellness Mathematics & Computer Science Inventory: A Factor Analytic Approach” at the American Educational Research Association meeting in Philadelphia. Medieval math made modern In May at the American College of Sports Medicine In June Jeff Oakstraveled to Tel Aviv University in Israel to meeting in Orlando, Fla., Hartman-Mayol, Scott, and Beekley offer two talks on medieval Arabic algebra. His “al-Khayyam’s presented “Multi-Dimensional Wellness Outcomes among Scientific Revision of Algebra” was part of a workshop on the Undergraduate Students: A Comparison Study,” Hicks, history of mathematics, and “Polynomials and Equations in Everett, and Hartman-Mayol presented “The Effects of an Arabic Algebra” was given at a joint meeting of the American Extended Wellness and Coaching Program on Blood Profiles Mathematical Society and the Israeli Mathematical Union in College Students,” and Richard Robinson presented the next day. “Physiological Responses to Battling Ropes Exercise” and “Effect of Real-Time Visual Feedback on Pedal Force Asymmetry in Cycling.”

12 PORTICO FALL 2014 Modern Languages organize and chair “Philosophy in the Films of Christopher Nolan” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Putting words in their mouths Association conference in Chicago, where he also presented In September Peter Wuteh Vakunta (French) published the “Diabolical Evil in The Dark Knight.” book Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in In May Perry Kea presented “Jesus and Politics, Then Cameroonian Literature. His article “Camfranglais: A Glossary and Now” in Brevard, N.C., at a Jesus Seminar on the Road. of Common Words, Phrases, and Usages by Jean-Paul Kouega” Jesus Seminars on the Road are sponsored by the Westar was published in the Journal of the African Literature Association. Institute, a nonprofit, public-benefit research and educational organization that bridges the gap between scholarship about religion and the perception of religion in popular culture. Music Peter Murphy presented “Higher-Order Belief Views of Gold medal gratitude Justified Suspended Judgment” at the spring meeting of the Indiana Philosophical Association and commented on a paper. Composer John Berners won the gold medal in Art Song He presented “The Nature and Norms of Suspended Judgment” and Director’s Choice at the Boston Metro Opera 2014 to the philosophy department at IUPUI in May. International Composers Competition, which had entries from more than 120 countries. His new band piece, composed for music colleague Vu Nguyen and the UIndy wind ensemble, School for Adult Learning premiered at UIndy in April, and will be co-premiered in 2014–15 by bands at SUNY Fredonia, Northwestern State, Unearthing WWII history in Indiana Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and New In June adjunct faculty member John Dale published his book England Conservatory. Music colleague Richard Ratliff Dear Joe Boy: Story of a Mother’s Love. The book is a local social premiered Berners’s new piano solo, commissioned by the history that examines more than 100 letters written by a Indiana Music Teachers Association, at UIndy in March. Tipton County, Ind., mother to her son in the Pacific theater Berners and UIndy music colleagues Tamara Thweatt and during WWII. The letters are unusual because they were sent Anne Reynolds, with Ball State faculty member Mihoko to the sailor who was working on a secret military project Watanabe, presented his music at the National Flute and returned home after he was wounded, where the letters Association Convention in Chicago on August 10. remained in an Indiana barn for more than 70 years. Kathleen Hacker ’14 completed a master of science in strategic leadership and design degree as a member of the first School of Business cohort to complete the program. She also served as an accredita- tion specialist for the National Association of Schools of Music. More than just an argument Rebecca Sorley ’13 served as an adjudicator for the In March Darrell Bowman presented the research results for inaugural Carmel Debut International Piano Competition in a study he completed over a three-year period. “Debate as a June along with judges from Israel and Russia. Summer 2014 Method for Learning in an MBA Program” was presented to also marked the 20th anniversary of the UIndy Summer Piano the Society for Information Technology in Education. Camp, which she founded and directed. Students Joshua In May Deidre Pettinga and Azure Angelov (School of Flynn ’15, Abigail Egenolf ’15, and James Loughery ’15 Education) presented a paper related to marketing and public served on the faculty along with Catherine Moraga (White) schools at the International Conference on Learning and ’10 and Mary Wynn (Branscum) ’04. In late July, Sorley was a Administration in Higher Education in Nashville, Tenn. They featured guest artist at the Mu Phi Epsilon International were recognized with the 2014 Best Paper Award and 2014 Convention in Sacramento, Calif., performing solo pieces Presentation Excellence Award. Their paper, “Applying along with a selection with UIndy violinist Sarah Page ’15. Marketing in the Public School Setting,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Academic Administration in Philosophy & Religion Higher Education. In addition the pair was invited to speak in June at the Indiana Center for Family, School & Community Private eye teaches life lessons Partnerships Conference Highlighting Best Practices for George A. Dunn’s most recent book, Veronica Mars and Family Engagement. (See page 7.) Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell), was published in March. It is his fourth book in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture School of Education series. His fifth book in the series, Avatar and Philosophy, will be published in September. Dunn also contributed a chapter School-based field experiences pay off to The Devil and Philosophy (edited by Robert Arp, Open The School of Education has continued to pursue innovation Court), which was published in August. In April he helped to in both elementary and secondary education programming.

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With financial support from the Center of Excellence in Jean S. Lee, Sue Blackwell, Jennifer Drake, and Kathryn Leadership of Learning, faculty have been reinventing the A. Moran published “Taking a Leap of Faith: Redefining undergraduate program for secondary education to connect Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Through theory and practice by focusing on the activities of teacher Project-Based Learning” in the Interdisciplinary Journal of candidates in school-based field experiences. In a related effort, Problem-Based Learning. The study examines two aspects Elementary Education faculty have been researching diverse of teaching with a project-based learning model in higher models and traveling to model programs to rethink the education settings: faculty definitions of PBL and faculty preparation of elementary teachers in light of new demands PBL practices, as evidenced by their self-described successes and increasing expectations of content-knowledge competency. and challenges in implementation. Continuing UIndy’s relationship with Dow Agro- Mary Gobbett ’94 (Biology) and Nancy Steffel continued Sciences, the SOE received a second grant of $125,000 to their collaboration with their Junior Scientist Program at support the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows and their Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in Perry Township this mentors. In addition, these funds will be fostering the work past year. Each Friday afternoon, they guided both science and of CAS science and math faculty as they share their elementary education majors to create science experiences for knowledge of teaching in their content areas. second grade “Junior Scientists.” Gobbett and Steffel shared A grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York their work at three conferences: “Linking Literacy & Science will help the School of Education and nearby Christel House to Improve Habits of Mind” at the Kappa Delta Pi Convo in Academy charter school collaborate with local professionals Dallas in October 2013; “UIndy Jr. Scientist Program: Using from Dow AgroSciences to improve the preparation of math Minds-on Science Activities to Complement Nonfiction teachers and academic performance of elementary students. Picture Books” at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers One of just five programs in the nation funded by this grant, conference in Indianapolis in February; and “Creating the Indianapolis project involves creating “communities of Confident Elementary Teachers in Science: UIndy Junior practice” among UIndy education faculty, Christel House Scientist Program” with Reitsma at the National Science Academy teachers, and UIndy students majoring in elementary Teachers Association conference in Boston in April. This education. The relationship will allow undergraduate teacher year, the Junior Scientist Program will be expanded through candidates to practice and refine their skills in a real-life setting support by the Perry Township to include both the second with a diverse population of high-need urban students (see the and fourth grades. 2014 issue of 1400). Deb Sachs ’78, Reitsma, Ridgway, John Somers, and In March Gaoming Zhang, Nancy Steffel, and Beverly Steffel presented “Under the Lens of Mid-Program Benchmark Reitsma presented “Creating In-Depth Engagement through Assessment” at the American Association of Colleges of Collaboration and Communication” at the Association of Teacher Education conference in Indianapolis in March. Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education in In March, Ridgway, Sachs, and Zhang presented “As the Indianapolis. John Hartwyk, Kellie Compton, Anne Cook ’02, Landscape Changes, So Must Teacher Education: Cultivating and Rose Savela ’14 were co-presenters. Teachers for Project-Based Learning” at the Association of In March Angelia Ridgway, Kate Reinhardt, Amy Sekhar Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (Modern Languages), and Sarah Ohmer (Modern Languages) conference. Lee and Sachs presented “A Clinical Residency presented an interdisciplinary study at the 2014 Central States’ Model: Successes and Challenges.” Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages held in At the American Association of Colleges for Teacher St. Louis. Their work focused on the design of instruction Education conference in March, Ridgway, Sachs, and Donna in teaching second languages in a hybrid (face-to-face and Stephenson presented “Engagement, Connections, and online) format. Motivation: Providing a Model for Pre-Service Teachers.” This spring, Kate Reinhardt, the Student Education Addie Angelov, Jimmy Angelov ’12, David Johnson ’11, and Association sponsor, won the Indiana Student Education Sachs presented “UIndy and Wayne: Making an Impact on Association Outstanding Local Advisor award. Students.” Lee, Sachs, Krista Latham ’03 (Anthropology/ Ridgway and Terrence Harewood received a national Biology), Kathy Stickney (Chemistry), Tammy Vermillion grant to study changes in the development of intercultural ’12, and LaWanda Mitchell ’13 presented “In the Trenches sensitivity among teacher candidates in an alternative teacher Together: An Interdisciplinary Approach between School of certification program. The study involved an analysis of these Education and College of Arts and Science Faculty to Prepare future teachers’ changes in beliefs about cultural and Effective STEM Teachers.” pedagogical practices in teaching. A cohort from the master of This summer Greta Pennell participated in the Harris arts in teaching program served as the basis of the study. Their Manchester College Summer Research Institute in Oxford, research results were presented in Orlando in March at the England. As part of her research fellowship during the institute National Association for Alternative Certification’s conference. she examined movable books published in the mid-1800s and personal accounts of children’s development during the same

14 PORTICO FALL 2014 Eskenazi Health and UIndy Music launch Fellows Program

This summer, visitors to the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital in downtown Indianapolis were greeted with piano music provided by UIndy students and students in the Pre-College Music Program at UIndy. The Eskenazi Health Music Fellows Program and corresponding UIndy Community Music Service Fellowship was developed by associate adjunct in Music Minju Choi and Michael Kaufmann, director of Special Projects and Civic Investment for Health & Hospital Corporation at Eskenazi Health. The program provides opportunities for Sophomore Natalie Covert is a music education major UIndy faculty, students, and community members to give in voice who was among the hospital’s first performers free concerts in the lobby of the Eskenazi Health facilities. “I’ve been very pleased with the program so far,” says Choi. “Students gain valuable experience as artists and enhance the lives of people visiting the hospital.” Thanks to a gift by Marianne Tobias, the hospital is now in the possession of a concert grand piano and a significant financial start to an endowed music and performing arts program. The initial vision for this program is to engage a variety of partners who will help bring high­-quality music to patients and employees, as well as national recognition to what will be a pioneering use of music and the performing arts in the healthcare environment. The partnership will be exclusive to UIndy for the inaugural year and concerts will resume at the hospital this fall. time period in terms of gender socialization through and a pharmacist, and Kellie Cross ’12, a graduate in nursing children’s play, toys, and literature. Pennell also presented who is a missionary. The team saw 504 people over a five-day “‘I Was More of a Tonka Truck Girl:’ Toy Stories that Define period and conducted two CPR training sessions. Our Lives” at the World Congress of the International Toy Research Association in Braga, Portugal, in July. School of Occupational Therapy Somers and Rachael Aming-Attai presented at the iPad Possibilities conference at Center Grove Community School Playing games for good health Corporation in June. Their presentation, “Ten Reasons & In June Kate DeCleene Huber presented at the NBCOT Ways to Video Record Your Teaching,” presented aspects International Occupational Therapy Regulatory Forum in of their research from the STEM grant received from the London about the credentialing of internationally trained Carnegie Corporation in 2013. occupational therapists in the United States.

In June Beth Ann Walker ’01 was an invited speaker at School of Nursing the Games for Health Conference in Boston. Walker discussed elements of design, delivery, acceptance, and use of games for Providing health care in Ecuador health and wellness to meet the needs of various populations. UIndy’s School of Nursing has earned the full 10-year In October Kaila Bowman ’19, Jessica Marquis ’19, accreditation for its BSN and MSN programs. The Taylor Murphy ’19, Chelsea Sanders ’19, Chanlar Pierce ’19, accreditation is effective through June 30, 2024. and Jessica Ward ’19, all master of occupational therapy In June faculty Kathy Hetzler, Barb Winningham, students, will present “Enhancing Evidence-Based Practice and Janie Toon presented “Developing Leaders through through the assessment of confidence and knowledge” at the Mentoring in the Mission Field” at the Innovations of Illinois Occupational Therapy Association Conference in Lisle, Faith-Based Nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University. Becca Ill. The study was guided by Huber and Alison Nichols ’09. Cartledge also helped to create the presentation. Lori Breeden ’99 successfully defended her doctoral In May Hetzler along with Denise Ferrell ’93 and dissertation, “Exploring Older Adult Home Safety Education Carolyn Kirkendall led a service-learning healthcare trip to With Photo Elicitation via Telehealth,” in June. Nichols Ecuador for a Spring Term class. A group of 11 students, successfully defended her doctoral capstone “Changes in including nine nursing students, a pre-med student, and a Knowledge, Skills, and Confidence in Fieldwork Educators pre-OT student, traveled to the Loja region in Ecuador to set after Participation in an Evidence-Based Practice Short up and conduct healthcare clinics in three locations. The team Course” in May. grew to include two physicians, a pediatric nurse practitioner,

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serve as a site visitor for the Higher Learning Commission and School of Psychological Sciences completed her term as past-president of Psychologists in Public Is that easy to remember? Service (Division 18 of the APA). She is on the editorial board of Psychological Services and is a research committee member With Jeremy J. Davis ’09 serving as lead author, Jacqueline for the Foster Family Treatment Association. She also has been Wall co-authored “Examining Verbal Memory on the Word a guest reviewer for the Clinical Neuropsychologist. Wall has Memory Test and California Verbal Learning Test—Second been asked to serve as associate executive director for the Edition” for publication in the journal Archives of Clinical American Psychological Association. In this role, she will Neuropsychology. With Crystal Cederna-Meko ’09 serving direct the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation. as lead author, Steven Koch (adjunct faculty) and Wall co-authored “Youth with Oppositional Defiant Disorder at Entry into Home-Based Treatment, Foster Care, and Social Sciences Residential Treatment” for publication in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. Social Work earns department status Along with Aaron Kivisto and Joseph Hansel (former This past spring Phylis Lan Lin gave five lectures in China UIndy faculty), Wall served as a consultant to Allen County about stress and coping, assertiveness training, American Community Corrections. Koch and Wall presented four culture and society, becoming a 21st-century nursing commissioned activities for the Indiana Association of professional, and “Beyond Thinkers 50: Thoughts on Strategy, Resources and Child Advocacy. These four activities were Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Work” to students part of a 16-year outcomes evaluation project for which Wall and faculty at Sanda University and Providence University, has served as an external evaluator, and comprise an annual to MBA students at Hehai University in Nanjing, and to report, an executive summary, a 15-year review, and an administrators and staff at the Shanghai Children’s Hospital. assessment of evaluation quality to member agencies. Her Stress Management and Quality of Life was published Wall was an author on an invited film review for Inside in April 2014 by Young Lion Publishing Co. in Taiwan. She Llewyn Davis titled “Inside an Artist.” She served as co-author has written for Chinese readers on the same topic since 1978, on David Wall’s invited review of the film Dallas Buyers Club and this is her fourth book on the topic. She also presented titled “Teapots and Drug Laws.” The reviews were published “Beyond 2014: Goals of Higher Education in America” at the in PsycCRITIQUES. National Conference on U.S.-Saudi Arabia Relations at the J. Wall and Jacqueline Hess sponsored two student groups University of Redlands in May. Lin was also honored at the (Kendra Corning ’13, Lauren Myers ’13, Amanda Wakefield Indy Asian American Times gala in August as part of their ’10, and Trevor Langston ’17) who presented at the Indiana “Living Legends of Indiana’s Chinese-American Community.” Alzheimer’s Association Education Conference in April 2014. The gala honorees were long-time Indiana citizens who have Both of these presentations offered tips for facing the challenges made significant contributions and achievements. associated with providing care for loved ones experiencing The Phylis Lan Lin Social Work Program has become a late-life cognitive decline. Wall was an author on 14 research stand-alone department and has been renamed the Phylis Lan posters over the past 10 months, co-authoring these presenta- Lin Social Work Department in honor of the long-time faculty tions with Bill Staples ’05 (Krannert School of Physical member. The department will be located in the new health Therapy); alumni Davis and Cederna-Meko; adjunct faculty pavilion, opening in 2015. members Koch and D. Wall; 10 psychology doctoral students Kevin Whiteacre and Amanda Miller took two graduate (Cynthia Ross ’93, Cara Pratt ’13, Brett Enneking ’14, Kasey and 10 undergraduate students to Belize in May to record oral Windnagel ’14, Devona Gruber ’14, Jeni Gregory ’14, Lauren histories inside the Belize Central Prison as part of a travel Hansen ’14, Lauren Myers ’13, Carolyn Certilman ’14, and course, “The Big House Abroad.” The students recorded 36 Amanda Wakefield ’10); and two physical therapy students oral histories with prison staff over a three-day period. The (Emily Luck ’14 and Sarah Kuklish ’14). Eleven of these interviews are part of a larger ongoing research project posters were presented at the American Psychological Associa- documenting the lived experiences of inmates and staff in the tion convention, one at the annual National Academy of prison, changes in prison management, and crime in Belize. Neuropsychology meeting, and one at the annual meeting of the Indiana Psychological Association. Theatre Wall was invited to serve on an Institute of Medicine Committee examining the role of psychological assessment Alumni active in local theatre in evaluation of applicants for Social Security disability Penny Sornberger designed the costumes and Jim Ream benefits. She served on the American Psychological Association designed the set for the highly acclaimed Phoenix Theatre Continuing Education Committee and was a site visitor for production of I and You in Indianapolis in March. She was the APA Commission on Accreditation. She was accepted to a co-leader of Project-Based Learning/Faculty Learning Community with the Faculty Learning Design Studio at

16 PORTICO FALL 2014 UIndy. She copresented a workshop, “Project-Based Learning: conservatory (his 11th year) with Elise Campagna ’15 working An Exploration to Increasing Problem-Solving Skills Amongst as an intern and will be entering his 14th season at IRT this 21st-Century Learners,” at the Teaching the Teacher fall doing Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Christmas Carol. Conference at IU Health. In August Jeffrey Barnes ’00had his play Creation Ryan O’Shea ’08 wrapped up her first foray in teaching produced as part of the Indy Fringe Festival. UIndy staff and theatre courses at the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s Summer alumni were part of the production including Jenni White ’97 Conservatory for Youth. She completed her teacher and Christie Beckmann ’98. Carol Hatfield ’90 was a certification in Fitzmaurice Voicework, a vocal technique musician and Sara (Wagoner) Carolin ’05 was the stage for actors, this past summer in London. manager. Penny Sornberger was the costume designer. Other James Leagre was cast in the lead role of Sam in a short UIndy alumni involved with the Indy Fringe Festival included feature film called The Blue. Filming took place in Indianapolis, Kyrsten Lyster ’16, Delia (Neylon) Robertson ’07, Chelsey Muncie, and Decatur, Ind., during April and May 2014. It (Wood) Stauffer ’11,and Taylor Martin ’75. will premiere in Indianapolis and be submitted to multiple festivals throughout the U.S. Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Lou Harry directed his play The Pied Piper of Hoboken for Fellowship Program Theatre on the Square as part of the 2014 Indy Fringe Festival in August. His play Lightning and Jellyfishwill be performed Asking the right questions at Theatre on the Square in Indianapolis in October. He also Deb Sachs ’78, fellowship program director, presented penned a piece for the fall 2014 issue of the Sondheim Review “Encouraging Student Engagement through Effective and was named to the executive committee of the American Questioning Strategies” at the Woodrow Wilson National Theatre Critics Association. Convening in Chicago in July. Robert Neal played Prospero in The Tempest for Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre the first weekend of August, with Ross Percell ’14 as Ferdinand. Neal taught in the IRT youth

Book released to honor anniversary of airline disaster

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 lost an engine and all hydraulic controls on its way from Denver to Chicago, tumbling into the Sioux City, Iowa, airport in a fiery crash landing that was captured on video. Though 112 passengers died, 184 miraculously survived, largely as a result of the heroic efforts of the crew and rescue workers on the scene. Tending to those workers and the wounded that day was United Methodist minister and National Guard chaplain Greg Clapper, who just happened to be driving by with his family when he saw smoke and went to investigate. “Some of the bodies were still strapped in their seats, and some had been thrown clear,” he recalls. “I approached some of the wounded passengers who were lying on the ground and talked to them briefly. I asked if anyone was still trapped in the wreckage, and they pointed toward the cockpit. I ran up to the cockpit and talked to some of the crew members while they were still trapped.” Clapper later wrote a book about the experience, When the World Breaks Your Heart: Spiritual Ways of Living with Tragedy, and even made a cameo appearance as himself in an ABC-TV movie starring Charlton Heston. This year, the survivors, the Sioux City community, and the loved ones left behind marked the 25th anniversary of the incident with a series of events. Clapper emceed the official anniversary memorial service July 19 in Sioux City and preached at three worship services the following day. He also was interviewed extensively for a new book, Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival, written by Laurence Gonzales and published by Norton & Co. Working at the Flight 232 crash site has informed Clapper’s academic work at UIndy and his 24 years of service as a commissioned chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, retiring recently as a colonel. He deployed overseas five times during the first and second Gulf Wars, served three stints as a chaplain on the psychiatric ward of the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, and served four years on the headquarters staff of U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany.

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‘ I have a passion for helping people, which I can do through the government’

18 PORTICO FALL 2014 Communications grad now speaks on behalf of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture

On August 21, 2013, senior communication major DyNishia Miller spoke to the incoming class of 800 freshmen at the University of Indianapolis. “Say yes to campus life,” she said to them, “to new friends, to new experiences. They will change your life.” When she left UIndy the following May the University), who had connections with several with a diploma in hand, she didn’t realize that people in the governor and lieutentant governor’s she was soon to have a reminder of the remarkable office,” explains DyNishia. things that could happen by saying yes. “I ended up meeting with the lieutentant As a student at UIndy, DyNishia was governor’s chief of staff the Monday before involved with the speech team and the Black graduation, and I was also asked to apply for and Student Association and served as a Student was offered a job in the state personnel department. Ambassador for all four years. When she was As it turns out, my résumé ended up in the Indiana encouraged by the then director of Student State Department of Agriculture’s office, and I was Activities to give the Indianapolis Student asked if I’d like to apply to be their press secretary.” Government a try her senior year, she jumped DyNishia had a phone interview with the right in—and was elected president. ISDA on a Tuesday and an in-person interview on ISG works to improve UIndy’s campus and Wednesday. She was offered the job on the spot, address the concerns of the student body by less than two weeks after Commencement. working with the University administration. The “I never would have thought to have looked experience gave her a good foundation in politics. into a job like this,” she says, “but because of my “I ended up loving my work with ISG,” she experience with the student government and my says. “I had been searching for a new challenge, communication background, I found it to be a anyway, and I loved the ability to make a change great fit.” and have an impact on campus.” As press secretary for the ISDA, DyNishia DyNishia describes herself as someone who helps to create talking points for the director or never backs down from a challenge, so when the lieutenant governor, writes press releases and graduation was nearing and she didn’t yet have a speeches, works with social media, serves as a full-time job, she put her networking skills to use. media contact, and helps with other ISDA She started with Corey Wilson in UIndy’s projects, such as the Indiana State Fair. new Professional Edge Center, which provides “People around here refer to the State Fair students and recent graduates with opportunities as our Super Bowl,” she says with a laugh. for networking with business professionals, During the fair, she helped with the ISDA mentoring, coaching, skill enhancement, and photo contest (the theme this year was changing internships. Gene E. Sease, University president seasons) and worked to process the applications from 1970 to 1988, happened to be visiting with and design materials for the semiannual Hoosier Wilson on the day when DyNishia stopped by. Homestead Awards given out each year at the fair. He had a chat with her—and left with her “I have a passion for helping people, which résumé in hand. I can do through the government,” she says. From there it was a flurry of activity. “It’s funny how my life at UIndy and the “DyNishia met with Dr. Sease, his business choices I made back then interact with my life partners, his son David Sease ’77 (a trustee), and, now,” DyNishia says. “For all the hard work I Lou Gerig (one-time public relations director at put into UIndy, they’ve given it back to me.”

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Helping families in remote Alaska locations improve respiratory health

When AJ Salkoski ’04 ’07 graduated from UIndy and said that he wanted to move far away from Indiana, he meant it. Far away ended up being in Anchorage, Alaska, where the history and international relations scholar took a job with Americorps Vista, working on community planning in rural tribal villages. It wasn’t long before he was working on other environmental projects around the state and ended up meeting his future boss, who happens to be from Bedford, Ind. In August 2011, after spending four years leading indoor air quality improvement, energy efficiency, and solid waste management projects in dozens of Alaska villages, AJ became a project manager at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, part of the Division of Environmental Health & Engineering. His new project had a noble goal: to improve the respiratory health of chronically ill Alaskan native children. Several years ago, a pediatric pulmonologist in Anchorage was noticing that many children from rural areas were being treated for respiratory illnesses at the hospital, then sent back home— but were returning just months later for more treatments. In parts of Alaska, one in four Native Alaskan children is hospitalized each year with an acute respiratory infection. The pulmonologist and the Environmental Health Consultation group looked into the problem and wanted to see if there was a connection between the indoor air quality in their homes and the condition of the childrens’ health.

20 PORTICO FALL 2014 The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium ventilation system, so they close off the vents or found the funding to design a project that would turn off the exhaust system, leaving the pollutants work to improve the indoor air quality in rural to collect in the home. homes in southwest Alaska and provide home- “The bad part is that they are paying for based education free of charge to the families. that decision through their health or their kids’ AJ and his coworkers, with permission from health,” says AJ. the Alaska Area Institutional Review Board, Another issue in the homes often is a lack of began to examine health records to find out which running water or proper sewage systems. Of the villages and communities had the highest number six communities that AJ has visited so far, four

of sick kids, especially those who visited a hospital of them have been without running water in the or local clinic four or more times during the homes, which also can limit the family’s healthy previous year. AJ then contacts the tribe to ask water use practices. for permission to speak with family members in Once AJ has gathered his data and has some their community. At that point, the journey for air quality test results, he begins to work with the AJ begins. family on the education component. The local Many of the villages are so remote that no housing authority comes and makes any physical roads are nearby. AJ must fly into a small airport modifications to the home in order to reduce the hub, then take a bush plane to the village, which level of pollutants. can be anywhere from a 15-minute hop to a One year later, AJ returns to check on the two-hour flight. family and home and to test the air quality one “Sometimes we can travel on the ice road, more time. So far, the results have been good. or sometimes we can access the village by boat,” “I’ve been extremely happy with the he explains. “But we travel with a lot of gear, efforts of the residents in changing their indoor so a bush plane is often best.” environments,” he says. When they reach the village, it’s not as simple “Having people fly 500 or more miles to your as showing up, doing the work, and heading out. home in a remote community because you have a “There is a lot of respect that’s involved in a sick child is a pretty compelling reason for parents tribal village,” AJ says. “You have to understand to work with us to improve the indoor air quality.” the culture and respect the traditions of how you AJ and his coworkers have given presentations act in a village. Time moves differently for them, about their Healthy Homes research study across and each village is different. You have to be the United States and also in Canada and Mexico, willing to learn and be open to new experiences.” where similar indoor air quality issues exist. The Sometimes working with a translator (many study is set to conclude in January 2016, and at of the Native Alaskans speak English, though that point, AJ and his coworkers will have worked there are about 10 native languages that AJ may in eight communities and served 60 homes within encounter), AJ will evaluate the home and take a five-year period. measurements for indoor air contaminants. Many “Our goal is to work on behavior change,” of the problems stem from the home being shut he explains. “We’ve known for thousands of years up too tight. The cost of heating oil in southwest that we need clean air to breathe, but now we’re Alaska can range between $6 and $10 per gallon, trying to prove it.” —Jen Huber ’07 and families often go through two 55-gallon drums in the coldest months. They hate to See more photos by AJ and alumnus Levi Hannah see their heat leaving the house through the ’05 at http://ajandviti.com/.

WWW.UINDY.EDU 21 The 2014–15 arts season: celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center

The 2014–15 arts season at UIndy marks the 20th Season highlights: anniversary of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, which opened in 1994 and remains one of Department of Music the state’s premier arts facilities. The $10-million, UIndy Faculty Artist Concert Series 59,000-square-foot brick and limestone structure The University will celebrate the 20th anniversary was designed by Ratio Architects and won a of its Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center with a gala concert on September 15 featuring UIndy’s statewide award from the American Institute artist-in-residence, Maestro Raymond Leppard, of Architects. legendary conductor laureate of the Indianapolis The Center, which houses the departments Symphony Orchestra. of Music and Art & Design, was made possible The concert is the opening event of UIndy’s through the generosity of UIndy alumna and annual Faculty Artist Concert Series, central former trustee Christel DeHaan, philanthropist Indiana’s most comprehensive classical and jazz Ruth Lilly, and Lilly Endowment Inc. recital series. This year’s schedule comprises 18 concerts on Monday evenings, all free and open The Center’s crown jewel is the 500-seat the public, starting on Monday, September 22. Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, considered among the finest chamber music venues in the Midwest. CDFAC Gallery Modeled after the legendary 1870 Musikverein Ed Funk: Printmaker, Painter concert hall in Vienna, the acoustically superior October 6–31 room has hosted performances by pianist André UIndy Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition Watts, cellist János Starker, soprano Kathleen November 10–December 12 Battle, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, and Eclipse: Mike Baur & Steve Mueller the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, and Emerson January 12–February 6 quartets, among other artists. Loteria: Hector Duarte February 16–March 20

22 PORTICO FALL 2014 Medley of Events UIndy Jazz Concert Series Echoing Scare: A Halloween concert Now in its eighth season, UIndy’s Jazz Concert for children of all ages Series features top talent from throughout the Thursday, October 30, 7 p.m. Midwest. All performances take place on Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Wednesday nights in the Christel DeHaan Fine Free admission Arts Center’s Ruth Lilly Performance Hall. Voices of Worship ‘Singsation’ Admission is free. Saturday, February 21, 2015, 7 p.m. Saxophonist Rob Dixon Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center September 24, 7:30 p.m. Free admission Saxophonist Sean Imboden New Music Series October 29, 7:30 p.m. Local Composers at UIndy Saxophonist Matt Pivec Monday, October 6, 7:30 p.m. February 18, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Stacy Garrop, Guest Composer Residency Tucker Brothers and Friends Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m. March 4, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Gabriele Lena Frank Monday, March 30, 2015, 7:30 p.m. The 2014–15 arts season: celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center

Department of Theatre Kellogg Writers Series ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ UIndy’s Allen & Helen Kellogg Writers Series 8 p.m. October 17–18 and 23–25; brings writers of distinction to campus for public 2 p.m. October 19 readings and discussions. All events are free of Ransburg Auditorium, Esch Hall charge and in Schwitzer Student Center Room 010. Admission: $12 general; $10 for alumni, Fiction writer Michael Martone seniors, groups of eight or more and Tuesday, October 7, 7:30 p.m. non-UIndy students with ID Fiction writer Karen Gettert Student-Directed Productions Shoemaker November 21–23 & December 4–6 Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m. Studio Theatre, Esch Hall Fiction writer Jeffrey Condran Dinner Theatre: ‘The Odd Couple’ Wednesday, November 5, 7:30 p.m. (The Female Version) Sports journalist George Dohrmann February 20–22 & 26–28, 2015 Wednesday, November 12, 7 p.m. Dinner 6:45 p.m.; performance 8 p.m. Admission: $26 general; $24 for alumni, Fiction writer Katie Coyle seniors, groups of eight or more, and Thursday, February 5, 2015, 7:30 p.m. non-UIndy students with ID; $14 for Poet Teresa Mei Chuc UIndy students, faculty, and staff. Monday, March 16, 2015, 7:30 p.m. Reservations required. Poet Alice Friman ‘Eurydice’ Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 7:30 p.m. April 17–19 & 23–25, 2015, 8 p.m. Ransburg Auditorium, Esch Hall

For a full calendar of arts events at UIndy, visit www.uindy.edu/arts. For ticket information, call the Event Ticketing Center at (317) 788-3251 or visit the ETC in the Ransburg Auditorium lobby during business hours.

WWW.UINDY.EDU 23 N o matter when you graduated— or the name of the University when you were a student—you’ll always be connected to UIndy and the experiences that prepared you for your life’s journey. You’re forever a Greyhound!

Homecoming Week: October 20–26 Monday, Oct. 20 Dynamic Duos Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Music faculty collaborate in works of the duo repertory from the 20th and 21st centuries. Plus: the premiere of a work for flute and percussion by Mack Lamont ’12. Tuesday, Oct. 21 Stargazing Smith Mall & Noblitt Observatory, 7 p.m. To celebrate Wednesday’s visit by Neil deGrasse Tyson, we’ll host a special stargazing event on Smith Mall and include a tour of the Noblitt Observatory to use its telescope. Wednesday, Oct. 22 Neil deGrasse Tyson Nicoson Hall, 7 p.m. The internationally known astrophysicist and host of the updated “Cosmos” television series, will present “This Just In: Latest Discoveries in the Universe” for the UIndy community. (Ticket required; limited seating available in Nicoson. Additional seating will be available in UIndy Hall in Schwitzer Student Center via a live video stream.)

24 PORTICO FALL 2014 Thursday, Oct. 23 The Zip Line Hanna Avenue, 3–6 p.m. Plain White T’s in Concert Start the pre-game celebration in style by zip- Nicoson Hall, 9 p.m. lining into Tailgate Town. (Free.) Nationally known rock band Plain White T’s will perform their hit songs, including “Hey There Tailgate Town Delilah” and “Rhythm of Love,” for students, Nicoson Lot, 3–6 p.m. alumni, and friends. (Ticket required; $10.) Food, fun, inflatables, music, and more! Have a special caricature done by Gary Barker ’79, artist Friday, Oct. 24 and illustrator of Jim Davis’s Garfield iconic comic Annual Honors & strip. (Food is available for purchase; feel free to Recognition Banquet bring your own. Tailgate space: $10.) UIndy Hall A, 6–8 p.m. Golf Cart Parade Join President Manuel and members of the Board Hanna Avenue, 4 p.m. of Trustees in celebrating award recipients from Pull up a seat along Hanna Avenue for the parade our alumni and faculty. The dinner will be and see all the creative golf cart floats designed by followed by a special dessert reception—planned our students. It gets better every year! by students. (Registration required; $10.) Football Game & Halftime Show Urinetown: the Musical Key Stadium, 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 & Saturday, Oct. 25 Your Greyhounds take on the Lincoln Blue Tigers. Ransburg Auditorium, 8–10 p.m. And we’ll crown the king and queen! (Ticket The Theatre and Music departments have come required; $8 adult, $6 child.) together to produce the Tony Award-winning musical Urinetown, described as “one of the most Sunday, Oct. 26 uproariously funny musicals in recent years.” (Tickets available at the door; $12.) Founders Day Brunch Stierwalt Alumni House, 10–11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 As we close the festivities, we’ll look back at Hound Hustle 5K Run/Walk our past and celebrate our history with a special presentation from Michael Cartwright, special 9 a.m. assistant to the president for mission. The inaugural Hound Hustle 5K will take you on a tour of our beautiful campus and the University Heights neighborhood. Part of each registration fee will support a campus scholarship fund. (Registration required; $20. Includes T-shirt.) . President’s Lunch or details and to register for events, UIndy Hall A, Noon–1 p.m. F . visit uindy.edu/homecoming Join your favorite faculty and classmates for a Or call (317) 788-3295 family-friendly lunch. Learn about the many developments happening on campus and exciting And “like” us on Facebook for updates on plans for UIndy. (Registration required; $5.) Homecoming and other fun alumni activities at www.facebook.com/. Volleyball Game uindyalumni Ruth Lilly Center for Health & Fitness, 3 p.m. Cheer the Greyhounds to victory against division rival Missouri-St. Louis. (Tickets available at the door; $5.)

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Football preview The Lincoln match-up will cap the For the third season in a row, the UIndy University’s annual Homecoming Week, football team comes into the 2014 season while the Oct. 30 contest versus in-state- as the unanimous favorite to win the rival Saint Joseph’s will be televised Great Lakes Valley Conference title. nationally on CBS Sports Network. UIndy is coming off consecutive GLVC Volleyball preview championships and NCAA postseason appearances and returns 15 starters— The UIndy volleyball team enters the 2014 season as the defending Great Connor Baethel nine offensive, six defensive—from last year’s 10-2 squad. Lakes Valley Conference champion, The Greyhounds swept through their having won the program’s fourth 2013 conference slate, capped by a 21-14 conference crown last year. The Hounds final-minute win versus Truman State in also reached the NCAA Tournament for the regular-season finale. UIndy went on the seventh consecutive season and to host an NCAA Division II playoff eighth overall. game for the second straight season, Head Coach Jason Reed, now in his dropping a 27-14 final to 19th-ranked second year at the helm, went 25-10 (15- West Texas A&M in the first round. 3 GLVC) in 2013, winning more than any other first-year UIndy volleyball Jackie Howland Fifth-year head man and reigning GLVC Coach of the Year Bob Bartolomeo coach in program history. His squad will welcomes back 14 student-athletes from undergo baptism by fire to start the year, last season’s All-GLVC list, including facing last season’s No. 2 (Tampa), No. 6 first team all-conference quarterback (Central Missouri), No. 13 (Ferris) and Connor Barthel. After stepping in for No. 17 (Wheeling Jesuit) teams in a injured All-American Chris Mills in five-day span in September. week five of last season, Barthel led the Cross Country preview Greyhounds to a 6-1 record as a starter, The UIndy men’s and women’s cross compiling single-season school records country teams will begin the 2014 Katie Crump for completion percentage (.697) and season at the Queen City Invitational pass efficiency (164.9). in Cincinnati on September 5. Other Following Missouri S&T (38 points) highlights in their schedules include Little and McKendree (32), GLVC newcomers State on September 19, the GLVC and associate members Southwest Baptist Championship on November 8, and the University (28) and Lincoln University NCAA Midwest Regional on November (27) landed in sixth and seventh in the 22. Should the Greyhounds advance poll, respectively. The two squads moved to the DII National Championship, they to the GLVC this season after several won’t have far to travel, as fellow GLVC years in the Mid-America Intercollegiate member Bellarmine University is hosting Andrew Verhonik Athletic Association (MIAA). Southwest in nearby Louisville. Baptist recorded a 1-10 record (1-9 Leading the Greyhounds for the MIAA) in 2013, while Lincoln men is senior standout Alex Cushman. was 3-8 (2-8). Cushman finished his season last year The Greyhounds’ 2014 ledger features at the DII National Championships, the a pair of in-region, non-conference games first time an individual has qualified since versus Saginaw Valley State (Sept. 6) and 1991. He finished 49th in the nation. Hillsdale (Sept. 27), as well as games The women will be led by senior Jacklyn against Southwest Baptist (Sept. 20) and Howland. Howland had the best finish Lincoln (Oct. 25). Defending GLVC champs

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for the women at the NCAA Regional at 39th from Ball State. In all, 10 of last year’s starters will and finished conference second best with a return to the pitch for head coach Kiley Cirillo, 19th-place finish. anchored by seniors Fee, Katie Crump, Katie Johnston, and Stacey Klene. Men’s Soccer preview UIndy men’s soccer plans to build on last year’s And lacrosse is coming! record-breaking season, which featured the team’s The University of Indianapolis made official Coming up first NCAA Tournament berth in program its addition of men’s and women’s lacrosse, history. The Greyhounds, coming off a trip to the announcing the hiring of two head coaches in Online Auction Great Lakes Valley Championship Tournament June. Newlyweds Greg Stocks and Jillian Howley, uindyathletics.com final game a season ago as the co-regular season both former head coaches at Division II Lake Erie, GLVC champions, will again be led by UIndy will each step in as their respective gender’s very Homecoming alum John Higgins. first UIndy lacrosse head coach. October 25, 2014 In his fifth year as the UIndy head man, Married earlier this summer, the duo comes Key Stadium Higgins was named the GLVC Coach of the Year to Central Indiana from Lake Erie College in Pack-the-House a season ago after leading the program to a 15-3-3 Painesville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Both Night record, with a 12-1-2 GLVC slate. Both win marks will have a year to recruit and build a staff before January 17, 2015 were good for program bests. starting NCAA Division II competition in the Nicoson Hall The Greyhounds open the 2014 schedule at spring of 2016. home, hosting a pair of in-region games versus “We are extremely excited to welcome Hall of Fame GLIAC foes. Northwood will kick off the season Jillian and Greg not only because of their Ceremony in a 5 p.m. game Sept. 5 at Key Stadium. UIndy successful coaching backgrounds, but also because February 7, 2015 will then host Tiffin two days later in a 2:30 p.m. they are a great fit for the University,” said Sue Schwitzer Center contest. The GLVC season opens the next Willey, UIndy vice president for intercollegiate weekend, with William Jewell and 2013 GLVC athletics. “Their passion for their sport, team- Florida Golf Outing Champion Rockhurst coming to UIndy for a pair player attitude and desire to establish a positive Feburary 18–20, 2015 of conference matches Sept. 12 and 14. The league experience for our student-athletes makes them Tampa, Florida season ends Oct. 29, followed by the GLVC a perfect fit for UIndy.” Championship Tournament Nov. 2-9. The addition of men’s and women’s lacrosse ups UIndy’s total number of varsity sports to 23. For the latest athletics Women’s Soccer preview Both teams will start NCAA competition in the news, visit http:// The UIndy women’s soccer squad opens the 2014 spring of 2016, using Key Stadium as their season Sept. 5 at Tiffin, versus in-region Saginaw competition venue. athletics.uindy.edu. Valley State. The Greyhounds will then face off With limited conference options in Division About the with the host Dragons in another GLIAC/GLVC II lacrosse, both teams will begin as independents, showdown Sunday before jumping into Great joining the Greyhound wrestling squad as UIndy’s Greyhound Club Lakes Valley Conference play Sept. 12 at home only teams not affiliated with the Great Lakes The Greyhound Club versus visiting William Jewell. The opening Valley Conference. supports the Athletic homestand will continue through the next “I’ve started a program from the ground Department by assisting Sunday, with Rockhurst coming to Key Stadium up before, but I’m really looking forward to the in renovation of existing for a Sunday matinee at noon. The regular season challenge of doing it again at UIndy,” said Stocks. facilities and purchasing concludes Oct. 29 at Saint Joseph’s, with the “I was very impressed with their leadership annual GLVC Championship Tournament and facilities. I believe men’s lacrosse will soon needed equipment. The kicking off the next weekend on campus sites. contribute to the school’s winning culture. Club goal is to maintain UIndy’s roster will be punctuated by six I can’t wait to get started.” that quality, expand and seniors, including starting goalkeeper Megan Fee. enhance opportunities for Eight newcomers will add to the Greyhound ranks —Compiled by Ryan Thrope, Jackie Paquette, our student athletes, and for 2014, including seven freshmen and a transfer and Kyle Piercy advance the mission of the University of Indianapolis.

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Your Alumni Celli Dugger ’11, Contacts 2010s assistant director at the Philip Reinhardt ’10 Andy Kocher ’98 Dove Recovery House, is the digital campaign Associate Vice President received the Phylis Lan manager at Nimblejack in Lin Outstanding Alumni for Alumni Engagement Indianapolis. He and his Award during the (317) 788-3493 wife, Joanna Reinhardt Department of Social Alison Hernandez ’09 ’10, live in Indianapolis. Sciences banquet. She Assistant Director lives in Indianapolis. Meggan Musgrove Brian Doty ’11 and of Alumni Relations Clifton ’11 is an Julie Schneider ’11 (317) 788-2137 elementary music teacher were married June 15, [email protected] for Richmond School 2013, in Columbus, Ind. Corporation. She lives The couple lives in in Richmond, Ind. Greenwood.

28 PORTICOPORTICO WINTER FALL 2014 Megan A. Fornuto Michele Bates ’14 Indianapolis Health Care ’11 is a technology is a public relations Heroes award in the non- solutions specialist at specialist at Arlington/ physician category. She Van Ausdall & Farrar Roe in Indianapolis. She lives in Shelbyville, Ind. in Indianapolis. She lives in Crown Point, Ind. lives in Avon, Ind. Eric Stone ’02 works Alexander Beauford for Blackbaud Inc. as Dan Rauscher ’11 ’14 is a music teacher at Desktop Support is a U.S. Army 2nd Indiana Math and Science Manager. He lives in lieutenant, 293rd infantry. Academy West. He lives Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Daniel Henry was born He lives in Batesville, Ind. in Indianapolis. to Fenrick ’04 and Judith Beason ’03 Katherine James Susan Lutterbach Coran Coker ’14 passed away March 1. She ’05 on March 1. Fenrick ’12 instructs under- was named Assistant lived in Lebanon, Ind. is a project manager at graduate non-majors at Director of Annual Kronos in Indianapolis, FRita I D.N (Checkley) New York University. She Giving at UIndy. SheO D and Katherine is an lives in New York, N.Y. lives in Indianapolis.Y Miller ’03 died MayI 23. assistant coordinator for She is survived by her A orthopedic surgery at Nikki Nuttall ’12 ’13 T SavannahI Kozo- children, Courtney Baker,N Riley Hospital for and Paul Hull were Gates ’14 is a Devin Neal, Biller Children. The family married on March 8. rehabilitationS services Hatcher, Derek Checkley, Alives in Indianapolis. The couple lives Rprovider at the Bowen and Colton Checkley; in Indianapolis. Center in Plymouth, Ind. siblings Deborah JeffreyP Bramble ’05

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Amy (Wisser) Rohrer Jennifer White Kendra Rhoton ’07 Jonathon Edwards ’05 is now the Senior Wilson ’06 is the ’08 has been named the ’08 is an elementary Specialist, Distinguished Production Director Life Enrichment Director teacher at Arlington Events for the American for Entercom at Aspen Trace, a new Elementary in Rush Cancer Society and will Indianapolis. She lives senior living facility in County, Ind. He is oversee the Coaches vs. in Noblesville, Ind. Greenwood, Ind. She is director of bands at Cancer program in responsible for providing North Decatur Jr./Sr. Madison, Wisconsin. Lori Birrer ’07 programs and therapeutic High School in earned a master’s in voice activities designed to meet Greensburg. He Kim Dulaney ’06 performance from the the needs and interests of lives in Greensburg. received the Professional University of Southern the residents in assisted Perspective Award from Mississippi. She is a living and to enhance Suzanne Hedrick ’08 the National Association manager for MKyle their functional abilities is a registered nurse in the of Educational Procure- Productions. She lives and self-esteem. Kendra pediatric dialysis unit at ment for her article in Hattiesburg, Miss. Fwill I be Ncompleting her Riley Hospital for “Facts and Advice about O master’s in gerontologyD Children in Indianapolis. Katherine J. Fries Tackling the E-Procure- Y this year. She lives inI She was a finalist for the ’07 ’11 joined the UIndy ment Challenge” in the T Greenwood, Ind. A Indianapolis Health Care fall 2013 issue of the DepartmentI of Art & NHeroes award in the Educational Procurement DesignS faculty as an Michael Solari ’07 is volunteer category. She Journal. Kim is assistant assistant professor vice president at Short livesA in Nineveh, Ind. director of procurement Rteaching foundations this Strategy Group in and contracts manager at fall. Katherine recently Indianapolis. He serves MelissaP I. Morris ’08 E

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30 PORTICOPORTICO SPRING FALL 2014 Joseph Heckman She previously worked UIndy, where he received ’91 is on the Little Red as a child and family an Honorary Degree for Door Cancer Agency therapist at Meridian his work in providing board of directors. He Health Services. She scholarships for students lives in Indianapolis. lives in Camby, Ind. in need. He lived in Naples, Fla. Ronald Rutland ’91, Adam Bronkella ’99 the owner of Rutland was promoted to assistant Marc Adams ’81 vice president at Firestone was featured in the Uche Unogo ’08 Enterprises, is a new Independent Agency Financial Corp. He lives Indianapolis Star for his joined the UIndy Alumni Owner for American in Waltham, Mass., and nationally recognized Board of Directors in National Property & works in Newton, Mass. Marc Adams School of June. He is senior systems Casualty. He lives Woodworking. The consultant at OneAmerica in Indianapolis. school attracts about in Indianapolis. He lives F IN 2,500 students each year in Indianapolis. Leslie Allsup ’93O D for intensive, hands-on Christina Brinkmann and Craig SmithY were I courses and workshops married December 24, A ’09 is an employment T in building furniture and 2013. The couple lives specialist at Express I N other items. He lives in in Indianapolis. Sign up to receive the Employment Professionals S Franklin, Ind. A electronic alumni in Indianapolis. She lives RAnnetta (Davis) Thomas Cross ’82 in Indianapolis. Hudson Noble was born Beauregard ’94 ’96 to Travis ’99 and passedP away on July 8. newsletter! To start E

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ALUMNI.UINDY.EDU 31 OBITUARY Donald Lee ’84 passed Lury Fernandez away February 11. He was Denk ’85 died February an account executive at 23. She served in the Williams & Associates in United States Army. She Tucson, Ariz. He lived in was a registered nurse at Greenfield, Ind. Community East Hospital

Dawn Mitchell ’84 in Indianapolis. She lived was featured in the in Franklin, Ind. Indianapolis Star describing her role as a photo researcher for the newspaper’s “Retro Indy” feature. She lives in FMooresville, IN Ind. O D Mary Benson Y Pamela Qualls I’84 is Kitchen ’85 ’00 is the T the executive director Aof chief financial officer at I UMCM Suncoast and is NEskenazi Health Center in S enrolled in an Executive Indianapolis. She lives in MBA degree program. Indianapolis.A R Her husband Ed Qualls Bonnie Holdorf ’89 ’84 is the owner of Just P

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children. They live in Jay Vahle ’89 was Largo, Fla. honored with the Presidential Award for Brigadier General William “Bill” Gommel David Wantz ’84 serves on the Local Excellence in Mathematics passed away on May 13. Gommel (pictured with and Science Teaching. David Sease ’77) was a UIndy faculty member Initiatives Support Corporation board. He This award recognizes two from 1965 until retiring in 1992. His daughter1 9 2 0lives in Indianapolis. teachers from each state Ruth A. Williams ’77 and grandson Robert W. who excel in teaching Fuller ’06 are UIndy alumni, and his daughters David Carson ’85 has mathematics and science Angeline O’Malley and Virginia Ann Harris also been named vice president at the primary and attended classes at UIndy. Gommel joined UIndy of business services at secondary level. He is a in 1965 after retiring from the United States Air Florida’s Flagler College. fourth and fifth grade Force. He served as chair of the Earth and Space He will be involved in teacher at Woodbrook Sciences and Director of the Noblitt Observatory shaping the overall Elementary in Carmel, Ind. He lives in Carmel. and taught higher mathematics, astronomy, and direction of the college and carrying out its daily a popular earth sciences field studies course. operations. He served After retiring from the University in 1992, he previously as vice was designated as professor emeritus. He also president for business and established the Dr. William R. Gommel Endowed chief financial officer at Scholarship, the Dewey E. Gommel Excellence Armstrong Atlantic State in Math Award, and the William R. Gommel University in Georgia. Atmospheric Science Award. He lives in Richmond Hill, Ga.

32 PORTICOPORTICO SPRING FALL 2014 preceded in death by The Indiana Principal Dennis Moran ’75 1970s his wife, Gayle. He lived Leadership Institute has passed away April 9. He J. Donald Cossairt in Indianapolis. named Bruce Miller was a sales representative ’70 presented a graduate ’74 as one of 13 mentors for Beck’s Welding course, “Radiation Physics Linda Marie Bond in the second Indiana Supply. He lived in for Personnel and ’72 died January 31, Principal Leadership Richmond, Ind. Environmental 2013. She was a Institute class. He has Protection,” at the United registered nurse for 34 been the principal at Anna L. Hansford ’76 States Particle Accelerator years. She is survived by Brandywine Elementary died June 29. She was an School at the University her sons, Michael and School in New Palestine art teacher in Indianapolis of Tennessee in January. Kevin; sister, Carol for 34 years. He lives in Public Schools for 17 USPAS is a consortium of Beaver; brother, Richard Shelbyville, Ind. years and at Southport national laboratories and Balsamel; one grandchild; Elementary for 22 years, universities that offers two and nieces and nephews. Richard Wyand ’74 changing the lives of sessions each year at a She lived in Basking Fpassed I awayN May 4. He is many children. Anna is major research university. Ridge, N.J. O survived by hisD wife, Lyn survived by her husband, He developed this course Y Wyand ’70 ’75. HeI lived Bill; children, Loren Alfred S. “Jake” in 1993 and has presented T in Greenwood, Ind. A Hansford and Amy Lasley, Sr. ’73 it at a record 12 USPAS I died N Seach; and grandchildren, Deborah (Van sessions. He is the JuneS 18. He served in the Kyle Hansford and Josie Peeren) Bucholz ’75 Radiation Protection U.S. Air Force for 20 ASeach. She lived in ’82 ’99 Manager at the Fermi Ryears and then worked for is employed by Indianapolis. National Accelerator RCA, retiring after 20 Community Health P E Patricia Polis Laboratory, Batavia, years. Alfred is survived Network as a school by his wife, daughter, son, nurse in Indianapolis. McCroryO ’76 is partner

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Rita F. Robbins ’73 was a U.S. Navy veteran Indianapolis. U Education for Service Physics Society, he is a died June 24. Survivors and served as a second distinguished emeritus include her partner, class aviation machinist Marita McLaughlin member of the National Barbara Camden ’74; mate at the Orote Naval ’76 passed away May 10. Council on Radiation sister, Janice Spilker; Air Base. He also was one She was a retired nurse. Protection and Measure- brothers, Danny Butler of the team writers for the She is survived by her ments, and chairs a and Gene Robbins; nine Apollo I flight manual. husband, Dal; eight committee of the Facility nieces and nephews;1 and9 Survivors2 include his wife, children; and many for Rare Isotope Beams, lifelong friend, Melanie 0Merry; children, Paul, Joe, grandchildren and great- a new accelerator under Wells. She was a school- Don, Tim, and Phyllis; grandchildren. She lived construction at Michigan teacher with the Center fourteen grandchildren; in McDaniels, Ky. State University. He lives Grove Community and twelve great- in Aurora, Ill. School Corporation. She grandchildren. He was Linda Anderson Watkins ’76 is a retired E. Ralph Foster ’71 taught accounting and preceded in death by his computer programing, parents, Fanny and first grade teacher from died April 28. He served Monroe County Middle in the U.S. Navy as a retiring in the early Melvin Cox; siblings Ed, 2000s. She was the coach Myrtle, Martha, Jesse, School in Bloomington, pharmacist’s mate. He was Ind. She and her husband, a grinder in tool rooms at for the 1986 girls’ state Mable, Cledith, and softball championship Thelma; and first wife Ron, enjoy traveling and Ideal Engineering and spending time with their Allison. He is survived by team. She lived in Margie Stewart. He lived Franklin, Ind. in Kenosha, Wis. grandchildren. Linda lives his children, Michael and in Bloomington, Ind. Brenda, four grand- children, and eight great- grandchildren. He was

ALUMNI.UINDY.EDU 33 Randy Fearnow ’77 Jim Kemp ’79, Alice Sue Green ’66 Lawrence George joined Quarles & Brady, professional ceramic was invited to address ’50 died July 9. He LLP of Chicago as partner artist, died November 30, the guests at the UIndy retired from Eli Lilly in and joins the firm’s health 2013. His career as a donor scholar lunch on the photography/audio- law practice group. He is potter included 30 years March 1. She lives in visual services depart- Martindale-Hubbell AV of national and regional Lafayette, Ind. ment. Survivors include Peer Review Rated and a juried art fairs. He leaves his wife, Mary Sue; Distinguished Fellow of behind his wife, Joni Gail Warrener ’68 daughter, Suzanne; sons, the Indianapolis Bar Metcalf-Kemp ’78, died April 19. She was the Jeff and Brian; two Foundation. He lives and two sons. He lived owner and operator of grandchildren; and one in Chicago. in Greenwood, Ind. Rome City Preschool. She great-grandchild. He lived lived in Kendallville, Ind. in Indianapolis. Bethany L. Nelson ’77 died 1960s Robert C. Elmore Harley Griffith Jr. ’50 ’69 passed away May 26. January 3. Survivors Emma M. Behrman F I passed away May 11. He O He wasN a professor of include her parents, ’61, wife of the late Victor D was a retired associate accounting at Tennessee William and Mary Bradt Behrman, diedY June 12. I director of administrative Technological University. Hyslop; husband, Brad; She wasT a registered nurse A services at Purdue Survivors include his children, Nathan, Jared, at BartholomewI County NUniversity in Lafayette. wife, Anne; sons, Evan, Avery; and brother, andS Columbus Regional He is survived by his wife, Courtenay Moon, Carol Griffith ’49 Dr. W. Brian Hyslop. She Hospital, retiring after 34 A ; and R Clinton, and Matthew Gregory lived in Indianapolis. years of service. Survivors children, Elmore; sister, Linda GriffithP ’97, Kerry, and E include son Roger L. John S. Bennett II Elmore ’75; brother, Bradley. He lived in

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Bennett III, Carl Bennett, 2013. George is survived Hollingsworth ’62U Education for Service David Stillabower Cherie Divish, and died January 1. Richard by his sons, Kenneth and ’69 died April 12. He Michael Bennett; and six served in the United Mark, and sister, was an independent grandchildren. He lived States Air Force during Charlotte Swander. He contractor, helping many in Indianapolis. the Korean War. He is lived in Indianapolis. families with their home survived by his wife, Donald Snyder ’78 is improvements. He lived Mary M. Moore ’50, Barbara; daughters, Sheri an elementary school 1 in Nashville, Ind. aunt of Paul B. and Renee; and grandsons,9 2 vocal and general music 0 Harden ’77 and Joetta Eric and Clayton. He specialist at Prince S. Warthan ’71, died lived in Noblesville, Ind. George’s School District 1950s December 7. She lived in Maryland. He lives in Clyde Foster Jr. ’64 Keith Conrow ’50 in Brazil, Ind. Silver Spring, Md. died May 21. He served died February 23. He was Claude Louis in the U.S. Marine Corps. Vicky Swank ’78 ’80 a retired chair of the art Sommers ’50 passed department at Warren He is survived by his wife, ’99 has joined the Edith Allison Conrow away April 13. He was a Central High School in U.S. Navy veteran. He UIndy Alumni Board of ’53; children David, Indianapolis. He is served in numerous Directors. She is a nurse Christine, and Laura; survived by his wife, positions at Brownstown practitioner in the Health brother, Herbert; four Velma, and children, Central as a teacher, and Counseling center grandchildren; and eleven Mark and Kelly Foster- coach, assistant principal, at UIndy. She lives in great-grandchildren. He Searles. He lived in and athletics director. He Indianapolis. lived in Franklin, Ind. Indianapolis. is preceded in death by his first wife, Helen Suzanne

34 PORTICO FALL 2014 King. Survivors include Bettina; son, Warren; wife, Dorothy Milhouse Victory Elementary in his wife, Darlene; sons, granddaughter Lyndsey Jacobs ’39; sister, Clare Peru Community Schools. Gale, Mark, and Brian; Weller ’06 ’08 and three Stone ’44; brothers-in- She is survived by her brother, David; and seven other grandchildren; law, Phillip Stone ’42 and sons, Dale, Paul, and grandchildren and six brother-in-law, Daniel Paul Milhouse ’32 HD Frank; daughter, Lois A. great-grandchildren. He Hirth ’59; and a great- ’50; and sister-in-law, Diehl; eight grand- lived in Brownstown, Ind. grandson. He was Mary Milhouse ’31. children; 16 great-grand- preceded in death by his Survivors include his children; and one great- Milton Truesdale ’50 sister, Nancy Hirth, and son, Mark Jacobs ’76; great-grandson. She lived died July 6. He is survived brother, Robert. He lived daughter-in-law, Janet in Logansport, Ind. by his wife, Marlene. He in De Witt, Iowa. Jacobs ’76; daughter, lived in Rockford, Ill. Carolyn Hartman ’67; Carrol W. Vertrees Jack D. Miller ’56 ’47 died on June 9. He Emma Craig Hoch son-in-law, John passed away March 1. He Hartman, Jr. ’67 was a World War II ’52 passed away January ; was a retired teacher for F I Joyce Erfert ’68 veteran, having served in 13. She was preceded in O daughter,N Perry Township Schools ’70 PaulineD the European Theater. death by her parents and ; nieces, in Indianapolis.Y He lived Vermillion ’61 IMary Carrol was most well brother, Bill. She is and in Franklin,T Ind. Hauswald ’54 A known in the region for survived by her husband, ; nephew, I Paul Milhouse ’63 N his work as a columnist Loren Hoch ’50; sons, Allen M. Morgan ’59, ; S nieces-in-law, Martha at the Post Tribune, where Jeff, Tom, and Stan; three husband of Beverly G. A To see the alumni Jane Milhouse ’65 and he worked for more than grandchildren; three RMorgan ’66 and father of event calendar or to Mary Stone ’67; and 35 years, beginning as a great-grandchildren; and Melanie J. Murray ’82, reporterP and ending his E nephew, Paul “David” register for events, visit many nieces and nephews. died December 23. He career as a member of Milhouse ’63. George O alumni.uindy.edu and She lived in Akron, Ohio. lived in Phoenix, Ariz. the editorial staff and V lived in Franklin, Ind.

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U Education for Service Odon Journal. Survivors (317) 788-3295. Army Medical Corps. was a retired assistant include his wife, Martha He was a retired guidance pastor at University J. Vertrees ’47; daughters, director from Greencastle Christian Church in San Vicki V. Ward ’73 and High School. Survivors Diego, Calif. Survivors Rebecca Owen; and include his daughter, Julie include four children, nine sister-in-law, Janet Carr; three grandchildren; grandchildren, and 10 Eisendrath ’46. He was and one great-grand- 1 great-grandchildren. She 9 2 preceded in death by daughter. He was George Jacobs ’42 0lived in Tucson, Ariz. sisters-in-law Joanne preceded in death by his died May 29. He was a Ethel Gould Anglin Lane ’53 and Othella G. wife, Elnora; daughter, retired minister of the ’46 died March 28. She Poling ’35. He lived in Sherrie; and grandson, United Methodist was preceded in death by Hobart, Ind. Keith. He lived in Church. He served in her husband, Olen. She is Greencastle, Ind. Illinois as a pastor for 40 survived by her son, Patricia A. Koons years, serving Elliot ’48 died April 19. She is Gerald Stevens ’55 Lanny; daughter, Judy; United Brethren, Peoria survived by her children, died May 20. He was and seven grandchildren Bradley Avenue David Wayne Koons, a retired pastor of and 12 great-grand- Evangelical United Bonnie Ortiz-Koons Community Church of children. She lived in Brethren, Casey EUB, ’74, Mary Deeds, and Hudson in Hudson, Iowa. Bradenton, Fla. Aurora Bethany United Karen Dahlquist; nine He was preceded in death Methodist, and Freeport Matilda “Olive” grand-children; several by his wife, Linda Locke Faith churches. He was Sullivan ’46 died great-grandchildren; Stevens ’55. He is preceded in death by his December 31. After 34 brother, James Harper; survived by his daughter, years of teaching, she and sister, Joan Brian. retired in 1978 from She lived in Macy, Ind.

ALUMNI.UINDY.EDU 35 Dr. Paul S. and great-niece Cara E. Moore; and one Ruth E. Schlegel ’39 Alexander ’49, Brown ’09. He was grandchild, four nieces, has passed away. She was husband of A. Lucille preceded in death by and three nephews. She an elementary teacher for Alexander ’49, father of father-in-law Rev. lived in Mooresville, Ind. many years, retiring in Dorothy L. Wade ’81, Willard F. Brown ’20 1976. Survivors include ’84, brother of Raymond (former trustee), sister-in- daughters, Nycha Schlegel L. Alexander ’52 and law Laura E. “Effie” 1930s and Nancy Brock; two brother-in-law of Nancy Brown ’54 (former Elmer L. Kirts ’37 grandchildren; and two C. Alexander ’52, died trustee), and brother-in- died on March 20. He is great-grandchildren. She June 17. Other survivors law John Morrison. He survived by his three lived in Muncie, Ind. include brother-in-law lived in Greenwood, Ind. daughters, Cassie Huck, Keith A. Brown ’51, Judy Allred, and Beverly Carleton Franks ’39 Betty Moore sister-in-law Margaret B. Zehr; five grandchildren; died March 13. He Browning ’49 Morrison ’46, niece died and six great-grand- was a retired school Carol Sue Bossingham March 21. She is survivedOF children IN Elmer lived in administrator. He was ’75, nephew Derek A. by her son, David William Cullman, Ala.D preceded in death by his Brown ’79, niece-in-law Browning; Ysister, Mary I wife, Edith Gehlbach Debbie S. Brown ’79, ’81 Alice MooreT Eckert ’44; A Franks ’39. He lived in brother,I Benton Acton N S Indianapolis. A R Alumnus named to new alumni engagementP post

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member Andrew M. Kocher ’98 has begun work as UIndy’s first associate vice president for alumni engagement, leading all alumni relations and annual giving operations in University 1 Advancement. 9 0 2 The Indianapolis native joined the University staff in 2001 as director of the annual fund and later was named director of planned and major gifts. More recently he has served as executive director of development. “I am excited to have this opportunity to serve my alma mater,” said Kocher. “Being a graduate and long-time member of the University staff means that I have seen firsthand the incredible work being done in our communities by fellow Greyhounds. I look forward to working with you to ensure all members of the UIndy community continue to enjoy the benefits of being ‘Forever a Greyhound.’” Christopher Molloy, vice president for University Advancement, said the appointment resulted from a national search. “The search committee unanimously felt the best candidate was right here in our back yard,” Molloy said. “Andy Kocher has the right professional skills, combined with a strong understanding of UIndy’s traditions and values, to be just the right person for this important position.”

36 PORTICO FALL 2014 It’s a great time to come back and join Move-in Day / Freshman Convo the excitement at UIndy. Show your Wednesday, August 20 Greyhound spirit at one of our many featured events while meeting new and old friends. Learn more and register for events at alumni.uindy.edu.

UIndy Night at Indy Eleven Saturday, July 19

Scores of faculty and staff, and more than 30 alumni, pitched in to help move many of UIndy’s more than 900 freshmen into their dorms August 20. Linda Dillman ’76 (above), chief information officer for QVC Inc., was keynote speaker at the freshmen convocation that afternoon, addressing the new students and their families. “You are entering what I think is probably the most exciting and impactful part of your life,” Dillman said.

Hounds’ Home Run Thursday, August 21

More than 200 UIndy alumni and friends gathered to watch Indy Eleven professional soccer on July 19 at the Michael A. Carroll Stadium. Alumni mingled with friends new and old during a pre-game reception, where they were welcomed by Indy Eleven team owner UIndy Trustee and Ersal Ozdemir (top photo) and President Robert Manuel. UIndy was well represented at the match, More than 600 freshmen and 200 alumni as President Manuel and his daughter Sophie gathered at Victory Field to enjoy a picnic and made the first kick of the evening, and several Indianapolis Indians baseball game on a warm UIndy alumni and friends participated in the August evening. President Manuel threw out the spinning penalty kick game. Ace the mascot even first pitch, and several Greyhounds were chosen to participated as the goalie! take part in between-inning games on the field. recent events

Check out alumni event photos by visiting our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uindy Alumni

WWW.UINDY.EDU 37 Family Day on campus Alumni House Trick-or-Treat Saturday, September 27 Thursday, October 30 Noon: Picnic on the mall 6–8 p.m. 2–4 p.m.: Service projects in the residence halls, plus intramural sports 4–6 p.m.: Tailgate Town 6 p.m.: UIndy vs. Hillsdale

Bring your brood to Family Day at UIndy! We’ll enjoy an outdoor picnic on the mall at noon, and Bring your little ones to UIndy for Halloween inflatables, music, and a photo booth are part of (and dress up yourself!) to trick-or-treat in the the festivities. Stay for intramural sports fun or a residence halls and the spooky Stierwalt Alumni service project, then head to Tailgate Town before House. There will also be a costume contest! the football game kicks off at 6 p.m. And legacy families—those with second-generation UIndy students—will be honored during the game. Dessert Diversion Tuesday, December 9 Homecoming Week Week of October 19–25

Join finals-immersed UIndy students for a sweet break at the Stierwalt Alumni House. Bring your kids to decorate holiday cookies and have their picture taken with Santa Claus! Watch alumni. See page 24. And visit uindy.edu/homecoming uindy.edu for details. future events for more details!

Alumni Check out alumni event photos by visiting our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/uindy

38 PORTICO FALL 2014 A good deal for your wheels!

Request your Greyhound license plate today

Simply request a UIndy license plate at your license branch, through the online registration at mybmv.com, or by mail with your renewal form.

The $40 fee for a Greyhound plate includes a $25 contribution to UIndy that will support both student and alumni programs.

When given the option, please check the consent box to let us know you’re a UIndy supporter!

For more information, visit http://www.uindy.edu/giving/ride-with-pride. Thank you for your support!

Let us know about it! Submit Portico news & more

Share your news with us online at Alumni Central! Post info and photos, and we’ll pass the news on to your classmates in Portico, too. Or send your news to us in the mail about a wedding, child, job, promotion, or achievement. High-resolution (300 dpi) or print photos are welcome and may be published if space allows. (When you send wedding news, please include wedding date, spouse name & occupations. When you share birth announcements, please include the baby’s full name, birth date, and any siblings at home.)

Did you graduate in 1974, 1984, 1994, or 2004? If so, 2014 is your reunion year at Homecoming! If you’d like to be involved with the reunion planning committee for your year or just want to connect with your fellow classmates again, visit alumni.uindy. edu/reunions14 to sign up.

We are also looking for alumni who would like to volunteer with the Office of Admissions. If you’d like to help with a college fair in your city, contact Ryan McClarnon at [email protected] or call (317) 788-3216. For more alumni volunteer opportunities, contact Alison Hernandez ’09 at (317) 788-2137 or email [email protected] to get involved with your alma mater!

Mail Class Notes news to the UIndy Office of Alumni Relations, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46227.

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Homecoming keeps getting better!

Plan to come back to UIndy for a week of events and activities, all leading up to the big game on Saturday—with concerts, special events, reunion gatherings, pep rallies, and more. The new Hound Hustle 5K run/walk gets the day off to a fast start, followed by the president’s lunch at noon. The annual parade steps off at 4 p.m., featuring more than 30 decorated golf carts, the Circle City Sidewalk Stompers Clown Band, the UIndy pep band, and much more. Plan to explore Tailgate Town, complete with a zip line, a cupcake tent, face painting, balloon art, spin-art T-shirts, and tailgating academic departments. Plus, artist Gary Barker ’79, illustrator of Garfield comics, will be on hand drawing cartoons and caricatures. Be sure to wear your best UIndy gear! 40 PORTICO FALL 2014