Vol. 14/Fall 2006

Professor Emeritus of Musicology Austin B. Caswell dies at 74 t is with sadness that we share the news Recent students also remember Austin of the death of Austin Caswell, professor Caswell for his dedication to teaching, his Iemeritus of music. Professor Caswell love of books, and his care for students. passed away at home on March 1, 2006, at “Austin’s passion for great books pushed the age of 74. all of us to involve ourselves with discus- Caswell received his BA in history from sions, which would sometimes turn into Amherst College (1953), and his MA and heated debates,” remembers Kimberly PhD in musicology from the University of Harmacinski, a student in Caswell’s last Minnesota (1957, 1964). His early years of H212 class in spring 2005. “He inspired me to remember how much I love to read, and his comments on our papers made me feel Austin Caswell taught like he truly appreciated our work. For that, I will always remember him.” Honors College courses for “Austin Caswell was one of the best more than 30 years. professors I had during my undergraduate career at IU,” says Aravon McCalla, BA’05, now a law student at IUB. “Austin was truly teaching included the Vermont Academy a wonderful teacher, and the experiences and the University of Minnesota General Courtesy of the Caswell family I had my freshman year in his H211 and College, but the bulk of his teaching career Austin Caswell, circa 1996 H212 classes served me greatly. It’s not was as professor of musicology at Indiana students describe the effect of his teaching often that you encounter someone who is University’s Jacobs School of Music (1966– as “life-changing,” and his generosity toward so dedicated to helping enrich your ways 1996), where he served as chairman of the helping students was further reflected in of thinking and writing; because of that, I’m musicology department for several years. the hundreds of letters of recommendation very grateful to have met Austin.” He also taught for the IU Hutton Honors he wrote over the years on their behalf. (continued on page 2) College (1973–2006) and the IU Intensive Freshman Seminar program. As an award-winning music professor, Austin Caswell specialized in women’s From the dean music, U.S. popular music, the history of improvisation, and music of the Baroque. Opportunities abound at home, abroad As a teacher of the HHC Ideas and Experi- ence “great books” seminars for 33 years, he This has been an exciting year for the Chinese history, Chinese ethnicities, delighted in introducing gifted freshmen Hutton Honors College, both at home contemporary literature and film in to texts from many different fields. “I liked and abroad. Another cohort of students China, and China’s international relations. teaching music, but I like honors teaching has participated in the E.L. Hutton Classes will be conducted in English, but more,” Caswell said last fall. International Experiences Program, the program will also include intensive Austin Caswell loved teaching, and in studying or doing research or service Chinese language training. The program 1996 he was honored with one of IU’s high- overseas, and they have returned to IU has been organized by the Institute for est and most distinguished teaching awards, with broadened horizons and deepened the International Education of Students, the Herman Lieber Memorial Award, which perspectives on the world and their and honors students from any of the Big included the following words of praise places in it. The opportunities provided Ten schools are eligible to enroll. HHC about Caswell from his students and col- by the IEP help all of us to think globally, students will thus be able to meet and leagues: “He is a miracle, a mentor, an angel, and two additions to our HHC programs get to know some of their talented peers a father figure, a true friend, Socrates with a underscore that aspect of our mission. from other universities here in the United handlebar mustache, smarter than Ein- First, we are launching an honors se- States, even as they together learn about stein …” Caswell left a long-lasting legacy mester in China, with a program housed and live in China. The partnership of the in those who experienced his unique at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. CIC (Big Ten) institutions was crucial for teaching style in which he always encour- The program will offer seminars on (continued on page 2) aged students to “think for yourself.” Many beyond his field, and blessed with a sense the Scandinavian communities in which we Caswell of self Garrison Keillor could have truly had grown up. Learning with Austin always (continued from page 1) appreciated. Besides, he had a great mus- included laughter.” “One of the wisest and most unique tache! With his Minnesota roots, Austin had a Dean Karen Hanson reflects on the people I’ve ever had the fortune of meeting, genuine conviction that the arts and humani- impact Caswell had, saying, “Austin was Austin Caswell made my time in Blooming- ties were important to our lives, a kind of a truly remarkable teacher, wildly gifted ton special,” says Caitlin Taylor, the under- no-nonsense but deeply felt understanding and passionately dedicated to his students graduate teaching intern in Caswell’s last of their power. Perhaps his feelings reflected and their development. He was a peerless H212 class. “His guidance not only made in an unsurprising way the Scandinavian inspiration to all who had the great good people better and smarter students, but his culture typical of small towns and big, from fortune to know him and to work with him, influence also made students better and eastern Montana to Wisconsin.” to learn from him and enjoy his company. smarter people.” “Austin had nothing of the ordinary He was engaging and fun, to put it mildly, Colleagues remember Austin for those about him,” Bondanella continues. “His but absolutely serious about the things that reasons and more. warmth, his subtle sense of humor, his mattered most. For many generations of “I began working with Austin Caswell genuine interest in other people, his wis- students, having had a class with Austin is when I took the job of coordinating the dom, and his affection inspired those of us the most memorable, the most treasured Freshman Honors Seminar, Ideas and Experi- who so willingly worked with him. I carry experience they will carry with them from ence, in 1975,” Julia Bondanella, former as- many special memories of Austin, especially all their years at IU.” sociate director of the Honors College, says. of those occasions we would sit down and See the story about Caswell’s teaching “Who wouldn’t have wanted to work with chat — sometimes with our friend and col- that was posted last fall at www.indiana. Austin? He was well spoken, sharply intel- league Michael Berkvam, falling sometimes edu/~iubhonor/news/news0506/caswell. ligent, knowledgeable about the literature uproariously into the broad accents and php. Caswell is survived by his wife, Judy, of music, curious about ideas and forms special cadence typical of the speech of and daughters, Rachel and Sara.

HHC building will From the dean be located at Sev- (continued from page 1) enth and Woodlawn, the development of this program, and we directly across from have depended also on outstanding support Dunn Meadow and and cooperation from IU’s Office of Over- the Indiana Memorial seas Study and the IU Department of East Union. It is a great Asian Languages and Cultures. location, and it is go- Our second new initiative will also be ing to be a beautiful based in China. Thanks to the generosity building — collegiate Artist’s rendering of the HHC’s future home of Simon Goe, an IU alumnus, and with the gothic in style, with a help of the IU Foundation and, again, the limestone exterior and a slate roof. All Office of Overseas Study, a program of paid the HHC staff will finally be together under ever, and that transformation in his personal internships — either three months or six one roof, and we will have much improved life made a new job opportunity seem espe- months in Beijing — will be offered to HHC space for student programs. We will even cially attractive. Twila Pickens, assistant for students. We are still have student lounges and study space, so extracurricular programming, is also mov- working out the de- honors students will feel, more than ever, ing on for happy personal reasons — mar- tails of the program, that the HHC can be a home away from riage and an exciting job for her husband but we hope it will home. The target time for completion of the in another state — but we will miss her be the first of many new building is in the 2007–08 academic terribly, too. She brought intelligence, imagi- internships, par- year. We are absolutely elated about the nation, and a quiet firmness to activities ticularly overseas prospects for this new home, and we will in programming, and she was a delightful internships, offered keep you posted as we make progress. colleague in every way. Two of our graduate specifically to Hut- In the meantime, there are other transi- assistants, Jan Cleaver and Nidhi Rana, have ton Honors College tions to report. We were delighted to have ended their studies and moved on, but Lisa Karen Hanson students. Richelle Brown join us this year as an Bluder and Pauline Campbell have joined These new programs will complement academic adviser and outreach coordina- us. We are grateful for the fine service of Jan the IEP and are another manifestation of the tor. Richelle is an experienced adviser, with and Nidhi, and we wish them well, even as HHC’s commitment to a global perspective. two degrees from IU herself, and she brings we welcome Lisa and Pauline. This issue of the Hutton Honors College dedication and creativity, as well as exper- One transition is different from the rest. Alumni News also highlights some aca- tise, to all that she does for the HHC. More- We have all been saddened by the loss of demic courses, extracurricular programs, and over, her kind and gentle manner is a balm Austin Caswell. Austin was an extraordinary special student initiatives that in other ways for even the most nervous student (and a teacher, scholar, and human being. (Please underscore the international interests of the great bonus for her colleagues). There were see the feature on Austin on page 1.) He HHC students, staff, faculty, and friends. some farewells, too. We were very sorry to was also completely dedicated to the Hut- There is exciting news much closer to lose Chris Clark, coordinator of the IEP, who ton Honors College and truly loved his hon- home as well. In fact, this exciting news is had done a wonderful job organizing and ors students. It is fitting that, in his memory, about our home. Thanks to the extraordi- publicizing the IEP, and who had pitched in we rededicate ourselves to the work and nary generosity of Edward L. Hutton, the a variety of other ways for the HHC, always the students he so cherished. Hutton Honors College is embarked on the with good cheer and good sense. Chris is — Karen Hanson process of building a new home. The new the proud father of a new baby girl, how- 2 Recent courses explore globalization and its implications he world today is smaller than it has ever • Anthropology Today, taught by Sara deals with: the democratic struggle over Tbeen before; or at least it seems that way. Friedman: “One of the most controversial the current size and shape of American You can hop on a jet and arrive in a country issues in the world today is the massive government as an instrument of public on the other side of the world in less than a movement of people across national bor- action, the policy choices embedded in day. With the advent of cell phones, you can ders. What kinds of people migrate today U.S. fiscal policy, the problem of American talk to people from almost anywhere. You and why? How does immigration affect dependence on petroleum importation, the can develop a community or maintain friend- how countries define their national identity changing nature of poverty and inequality ships regardless of distance, thanks to the and their citizenship laws? Immigration and in post-industrial societies, the American incredible power of the Internet. citizenship involve more than questions of health security problem, the effects of Ease of communication and travel, rights and responsibilities; they also inspire globalization on American society and its together with rampant population growth, debates about what it means to ‘belong’ in economy, and the challenges and choices changing concepts of national identity, free a society or nation. This course will look confronting American public schools. trade, climate change, and a growing ability at anthropological approaches to studying Major assignments include short papers, a to pass through national boundaries, have citizenship and immigration around the research project, independent reading, and made the meaning and implications of glo- world. We will focus on current debates debates on resolutions defined by the class.” balization one of the most important issues about topics such as the European Union, • Politics and the Internet, taught of the day. The Hutton Honors College, in ad- headscarves in France, indigenous rights, by Jeffrey Hart: “This course identifies the dition to its Hutton International Experienc- post-9/11 U.S. immigration policy, multi- issues, stakeholders, and forums for debates es Program that helps students see the world culturalism, ‘mail-order brides,’ and post-na- over political issues connected with the for themselves (see related story below), has tional citizenship.” Internet (and related information and com- recently offered numerous courses that al- • National and International Policy, munications technologies). We will be read- low students to approach such issues from a taught by Eugene McGregor: “Examina- ing books and articles by authors who have variety of angles. In this way, the HHC hopes tion of the great national and international thought deeply about these questions and to help students better understand their role issues of U.S. public affairs, including the will be conducting our own research on in an increasingly smaller world. major policy debates, the logic and process some issues. Among the issues to be consid- Here are samples of spring and fall 2006 of public problem-solving, and the tech- ered are: the domain name system, restric- HHC courses (as described by their instruc- niques of policy analysis applied to public tions on the use of file-sharing software, tors) that engage some of the issues raised action. Discussions, readings, research, and privacy, e-commerce, and net neutrality.” by globalization. debates are built around core reading that (continued on page 4)

Edward L. Hutton International Experiences Program prospering ow in its seventh year, the Edward L. lives of so many other people, and I NHutton International Experiences Pro- want to make that effect a positive gram, the jewel of the HHC’s Undergraduate one for everyone. Grant Program, continues to help facilitate — Hillary Marlatt, psychology ma- student travel all over the world in pursuit jor; summer 2005; Tutova, Romania of academic, service, internship, or research opportunities. Awards totaling $2,080,500, I felt like I was a part of the averaging about $1,416 per student, have culture, for the good and the bad, been made to almost 1,500 students. meaning that I had to deal with the Students have traveled to Central America, nuances as well as the enjoyments South America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, Courtesy of Megan Alvarez of living in a Caribbean, underde- Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, veloped country, just as Dominicans and Europe with the help of IEP grants. did. As one who lives in the United “Mr. Hutton’s generosity is encouraging States, one always hears of the Left — Hillary Marlatt students to think about the tremendous comforts a Romanian baby. plight and problems in underdevel- transformations awaiting them if they oped countries, but to live with these Above — Megan Alvarez, study abroad,” says Kathleen Sideli, associ- left, jokes around with problems gives one a new perspec- ate dean, international programs and di- the mascot of the Aguilas tive. Simply, the infrastructure of the rector of the Office of Overseas Study. The (Eagles) of Santiago and fel- Dominican Republic is deficient in number of students applying for awards low student Maggie Spicer many areas, no clean water, poor continues to grow. “Thanks to Mr. Hutton’s at an Aguilas baseball game health care, frequent power outages, vision, we will soon be able to provide last November in Santiago. and poor education. Even now, as grants to every Hutton Honors College Courtesy of Hillary Marlatt I am in the United States, I feel like student who wishes to make international nate children. This experience with the I can connect with Dominicans and their experience part of his or her education at orphans in Romania has strengthened this struggles. This is probably one of the great- IU,” says Dean Karen Hanson. desire and has given me the encourage- est things I gained while there, that is, the Here are excerpts from some recent ment I need to work hard in my classes ability to sympathize and understand the essays by returning students. and in my life in general, even when I feel struggles of others. I knew when I came to IU that I wanted like letting off. I can do this because I know — Megan Alvarez, political science and to get an education so that I could work in that what I do every day does not just af- international studies majors; fall 2005–06; a facility helping significantly less fortu- fect the outcome of my life, but it affects the Dominican Republic 3 Extracurricular programs: Community, identity, individuality uring the 2005–06 academic year, the students joined IU political science profes- War, and at the 2003 Academy Awards cer- DHutton Honors College sponsored, sor and food writer Christine Barbour emony. At the lunch, he taught the students, co-sponsored, or supported more than 50 and Bloomington restaurant owner and many of whom had just met each other, extracurricular programs, including many chef Dave Talent for an excursion to the how to “read” and sing a shape-note song small-group undergraduate discussion Bloomington Farmers Market. In a program “in community,” a square in which sopranos, events of the kind for which the HHC has designed to give students a local perspec- altos, basses, and tenors each provide a side. become particularly known over the years. tive on the growing and harvesting of food If we can design our babies, should With many remarkable visitors coming and the chance to consider the slow-food we? In a program with Ronald Green, who to campus, students had opportunities to alternative to the fast-food world, students was on campus to deliver the Matthew share meals and conversation with Nobel visited with local farmers and the market Vandivier Sims Memorial Lecture, students Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek, director and then prepared and enjoyed had a chance to explore the ethics of gene PBS “history detective” and University of a lunch made almost entirely from lo- enhancement. If we can, should we design Pennsylvania professor of sociology Tukufu cally grown and raised vegetables, meats, a baby to be healthier? smarter? more at- Zuberi, European Union security expert cheeses, and fruits. tractive? Professor Green directs the Ethics Richard Whitman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Shape-notes shape community. Through Institute at and is on the biographer David Levering Lewis, concert a collaboration with Bloomington’s Lotus faculty of the religion department and in the pianist and arts scholar Charles Rosen, and World Music Festival, the HHC and the community and family medicine department University of Cambridge classicist Mary Wells Scholars Program co-sponsored a within the Dartmouth Medical School. Beard, among others. lunch with Lotus performer Tim Eriksen, Students also explored the theme in pro- Some of the HHC programs were a versatile musician who has a passion for grams on dress, blogging, portrait painting, planned as part of a year-long focus on the shape-note music, a form of old American artificial intelligence, international percep- theme “Community, Identity, Individuality” music in which each note of the musical tions, and other intriguing topics. and addressed the central questions, Who scale has a distinct shape, e.g., triangle, The HHC joined with Union Board and are we? Who do we want to be? diamond, square. Eriksen and others per- others to bring Islam scholar and author If we are what we eat, who are we? On formed shape-note music in Cold Moun- Reza Aslan to campus to deliver a public a perfect Saturday morning last September, tain, a movie set in the period of the Civil (continued on back page)

Globalization culture, compare them to another similarly ations of parties? These are the questions modeled culture, and then create a ‘class that are at the core of the seminar.” (continued from page 3) culture’ based on the same cultural model. • Global Identities, taught by Edward • As the World Turns, taught by Herb More specifically, we will be looking at ‘cul- Gubar: “Globalization and free trade erase Terry: “This seminar will simultaneously ture’ as a ‘collective consciousness,’ a way national boundaries. Transnational corporate explore two things: contemporary inter- of looking at the world, chiefly by organiz- policy outgoverns governments. Growing national affairs and how media (especially ing and expressing experience in a unique international migration and urbanization electronic media) differ across nations. At way. The course will propose that, although continue to complicate world demographic the start of the semester, we’ll (1) identify human genetics generally can make a differ- issues. Such ongoing changes alter, inform, five or six ‘big issues’ that we’d expect will ence in how people act, on balance, people infect, enhance, diminish, ruin, ennoble, be significant for the following four or five are patterned by culture after birth. And make possible, or impossible, the lives of in- months (for example, developments in further that ‘essential identities,’ or what dividuals. Such changes have also influenced Iraq) and (2) determine countries that are are frequently simply described as diversity, the subjects and themes of fiction, especially of special interest to class participants (and are the legs of ‘collective consciousness,’ during the last 25 or so years. for which, perhaps, they have useful foreign without which the latter would become What’s home? Where’s home? Is exile language skills). During the semester, we’ll a monolithic, mediocre mass, destined for geographic or psychic? Who am I? Are we track the identified issues (and probably extinction.” all strangers in strange lands? How will I others) in U.S. electronic and print media • Political Representation, Political manage? What shall I do? Such questions that cover international affairs, and individ- Parties, and the European Union, taught abound in literature from a wide variety ual class members will track those issues in by Richard Rohrschneider: “Political rep- of writers from diverse backgrounds. How the media of their country. This will permit resentation is at the center of democratic does it feel to be an Algerian born and liv- us, through the semester, to consider how politics. However, it appears that political ing in an ethnic ghetto outside Paris? How and why coverage of international affairs parties in Europe are no longer able to do young Jewish or Greek or Latin immi- varies across national media systems. Look represent citizens. Among the reasons are grants come to terms with America? How at the class as one where you’ll combine the changing expectations of citizens, the does it feel to be a Czech finally returning learning about contemporary world events greater complexity of problems, the fall of to a free homeland? An Indian teenager with learning about the national (and trans- the Berlin Wall, and the rise of the European living in the Bronx? A Japanese-American national — like the Internet) media that Union. This class will discuss the role of discovering Japan? A Vietnamese cooking bring us information about them.” political parties in Europe and study the for Gertrude Stein in Paris? Let’s find out.” • Constructing Culture: Discovering reasons why they are no longer able to rep- See descriptions of all the honors the Value of Diversity, taught by Jack Rol- resent citizens. What is the role of political courses offered by the Hutton Honors Col- lins: “This course will not be a simple trans- parties? How does the process of European lege this fall on the HHC Web site: www. fer-of-knowledge class; rather, it will be one integration affect the process of representa- indiana.edu/~iubhonor. Click on “Course in which you will be challenged to decon- tion? How do other factors, such as citizens’ Descriptions” at left. struct aspects of the American mainstream changing expectations, affect their evalu- — Matthew Laird

4 HHC students chosen for science and humanities awards ix Hutton Honors College undergraduate most highly sought-after undergraduate Palmer-Brandon Prize competition. The prize Sstudents have received awards totaling research awards in the nation. is given annually to outstanding full-time stu- $95,000 in the sciences and humanities. The The 2006 Beckman Scholars are Charles dents who are majoring in the humanities. group of students includes two recipients of Haitjema of Bloomington and Aaron De- Smith is pursuing a bachelor of fine arts the Guidant Foundation Scholarships in the Loughery of New Castle, Ind. Each scholar degree in studio art–photography and a Life Sciences, two recipients of the Beckman will receive a total of $17,600 to support bachelor of arts degree with majors in his- Scholarships for scientific research, and two two semesters plus two summers of scien- tory and French and a minor in art history. winners of the Palmer-Brandon Prize for tific research. She spent the 2003–04 academic year at the excellence in the humanities. Haitjema graduated from Blooming- IU Study Abroad program in Aix-en-Provence, ton High School South and joined the IU France. She plans to continue studying and Guidant Life Sciences Scholarship STARS program as a freshman at IUB. He producing art, and she hopes to earn a Alec Sexton of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Jordan is majoring in microbiology and works in master of fine arts degree in photography or Raynor of Seymour, Ind., will receive the laboratory of Professor Clay Fuqua. His a master’s degree in conservation. $10,000 each as winners of the Guidant Beckman-funded research will focus on the Overley, a graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Foundation Scholarships in the Life Sci- plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Preparatory School in , is pursu- ences. The awards are given to high-merit DeLoughery, a graduate of New Castle ing majors in Spanish, anthropology, and students who are seeking degrees in the life High School, is a sophomore majoring in Portuguese and a certificate in Latin Ameri- sciences and intend to pursue careers in biochemistry with a minor in mathematics. can studies. Last spring, he studied abroad the health-care industry. His research mentor is Professor of Biology in Santiago de Chile. Following graduation Sexton is majoring in biology and Yves Brun. His Beckman-funded research from IU, Overley plans to pursue a graduate French with a minor in chemistry. He is a will focus on a regulatory bacterial protein degree in anthropology. member of the IU Science, Technology, and that coordinates many functions related to The Palmer-Brandon Prize is named for Research Scholars Program and recently bacterial adhesion to surfaces. the late Ralph Graham Palmer of Washing- studied abroad in France. A graduate of ton, Ind., and his wife, the late Barbara Bran- Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, he Palmer-Brandon Prize don Palmer, both IU alumni. Each student has conducted research in Professor Joseph Kristin Michelle Smith, a graduate of Law- will receive $20,000 to be used for further Farley’s psychological and brain sciences rence Central High School in Indianapolis, educational experiences. The award was laboratory at IUB. Sexton is an avid wilder- and Zachariah Overley of Zionsville, Ind., made possible by a gift made to the College ness hiker and loves international travel. He have been selected as winners of the 2006 of Arts and Sciences in the 1980s. plans to pursue a PhD degree in biology and continue his biomedical research. Raynor, a graduate of Seymour High School, is working toward a bachelor of sci- Two win Goldwater Scholarships ence degree in psychology, with a certifi- lizabeth Adams and Robert Kof- plans to continue studying astronomy cate in neuroscience and minors in biology Efie, both Hutton Honors College and astrophysics in a PhD program. and religious studies. He also conducts students, have been named Goldwater Koffie is a native of Ghana, Africa, research in Farley’s laboratory. He plans to Scholars for the 2006–07 academic year. and is in the process of applying for U.S. pursue a PhD degree in neuroscience and Adams and Koffie were among citizenship. He is currently a junior at hopes to include research and teaching in 323 scholars selected by the Goldwa- IU and is pursuing bachelor of science his career. He is an enthusiastic gardener ter Foundation from a field of 1,081 degrees in physics and biochemistry, and said that his early gardening experienc- mathematics, science, and engineering with a minor in mathematics. He plans es sparked the desire to understand how students nationwide. The foundation to enter an M.D./PhD program and also things work in nature. awards one- and two-year scholarships looks forward to a research and teaching Indianapolis-based Guidant is a world to sophomores and juniors on the basis career in medical physics. He expects to leader in the design and development of of academic merit. The scholarship can focus his research on neural networks, cardiovascular medical products. Guidant be used to cover the cost of tuition, complex biological processes, and neu- was incorporated in 1994 and has since fees, books, and room and board, up to a rodegenerative diseases. grown to $3.6 billion in revenue and more maximum of $7,500 per year. Throughout its 18-year history, than 12,000 employees. It established the Adams, who is from LaPorte, Ind., is the Goldwater Scholars Program has Guidant Foundation in 1995 to support now a senior pursuing bachelor of sci- garnered the attention of postgraduate communities where it has employees and ence degrees in astronomy/astrophysics fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater charitable and educational programs that and mathematics. She has been a partici- Scholars have been awarded 63 Rhodes fulfill its philanthropic mission. This is the pant in the IU Science, Technology, and Scholarships and 80 Marshall Awards. second year that the Guidant Foundation Research Scholars Program (IU STARS) Eight of the 40 Marshall Awards given in has funded scholarships for students in the since her freshman year at IU; her cur- 2006 were to Goldwater Scholars. IU College of Arts and Sciences. rent area of research is in dwarf irregular The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship galaxies. At IU, Adams has worked under and Excellence in Education Foundation Beckman Scholars Award the guidance of professors Caty Pila- was established in 1986 in honor of Sen. The College of Arts and Sciences received chowski and Liese van Zee. During time Barry M. Goldwater to foster and en- support from the Arnold and Mabel Beck- spent studying in Australia, Adams con- courage outstanding students to pursue man Foundation for a total of six Beckman ducted research at Mt. Stromlo Observa- careers in the fields of mathematics, the Scholarships, to be awarded in 2004, 2005, tory, examining binary star systems. She natural sciences, and engineering. and 2006. The scholarships are among the

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Gerberding Cowart, BS’82, JD’85, a Flemish school for children with management, marketing, creative 1970s of Dallas. She was one of 20 em- autism and other developmental product development, and brand Therese M. Loncaric, BA’77, ployee-benefits attorneys nation- disabilities. His daughters attend management for Disney licensed received a first place award from wide to be selected as fellows of the International School of Brussels. and vertical businesses worldwide. the Illinois Press Association for an the American College of Employee They are all enjoying life in Europe. He lives in Pasadena, Calif., and interview she did with comedian Benefits Counsel in 2005. Cowart Gray and his wife were founding can be reached at james.fielding@ Richard Lewis. A resident of Palatine, is a partner at Haynes and Boone, members several years ago of the disney.com. Ill., Loncaric regularly contributes where she works in the employee Autism Society of Delaware, and Julie B. Friedman, BSN’87, to Footlights, a theater benefits and executive compensa- they continue their support from is associate director of biomarker magazine, and the entertainment tion practice. She is chair-elect of abroad. project planning for clinical dis- sections of a number of newspa- the employee benefits committee of After 21 years in public and cor- covery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. She pers. She inaugurated Columbia the tax section of the American Bar porate accounting, Dianne Morris lives in Pennington, N.J. College’s course on writing reviews, Association. Perlman, BS’84, has changed ca- Laura J. Smail Bowen, BA’88, and she has lectured on entertain- Janet Brennan Croft, BA’82, reers. She is an executive recruiter MA’95, reports that she and her hus- ment writing at a national confer- MLS’83, of Norman, Okla., is head specializing in accounting and band, Brett, ’89, have been married ence of the Society of Professional of access services for the university finance in the metro for almost eight years. “I stay home Journalists. libraries at the University of Oklaho- area. Perlman lives in Westchester with the girls,” she writes, “and work James W. Wolfe, BS’77, MBA’79, ma. Her book, War and the Works County and has a daughter, 13, and part time, teaching English as a sec- JD’81, is the entrepreneur in resi- of J.R.R. Tolkien (Praeger 2004) won a son, 11. Her address is dperlman@ ond language online.” Brett works in dence and an assistant professor the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award abacusnyc.com. private banking for Fifth Third Bank. in the School of Management at in Inklings Studies for 2005. Anne Hoehner Scialabba, The Bowens live in Holland, Mich. George Mason University in Fairfax, David T. Pfenninger, BA’83, BA’84, of Chicago, is vice president Michael R. Baber, Cert/BA’89, Va. At George Mason, whose team chair and CEO of Performance As- of Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Manage- of Woodland, Calif., is a music editor advanced to the 2006 college men’s sessment Network in Carmel, Ind., ment Services in Itasca. Her address for motion pictures and single-cam- basketball Final Four, he teaches has been inducted into the Ernst & is [email protected]. era television shows. MBA-level courses in entrepre- Young Entrepreneur of the Year Hall Kathleen A. McFarland Ken- Violinist Joshua D. Bell, neurship, business planning, and of Fame. nedy, Cert/BA’85, is an adjunct his- ArtD’89, is staying busy. His CD managing entrepreneurial growth. Kathleen M. Stine, BA’83, is tory faculty member at Sauk Valley Tchaikovsky, released September “I realized that all the hoopla about editor in chief and co-publisher of Community College in Dixon, Ill. 20, 2005, debuted at No. 2 on the Mason probably meant I should Mystery Scene Magazine, along She lives in Sterling. Billboard classical chart. Bell is share this with you,” he reported as with her husband, Brian Skupin. Jonathan A. Grant, BA’86, featured on the soundtrack of the he was getting ready to watch the They have owned the magazine MA’89, MA’90, is an associate profes- movie Dreamer, and his recent Final Four. He has previously taught since 2002. The pair received the sor of modern Russian history at performances include the Winter’s at the University of Maryland. Wolfe, Ellery Queen Award from the Florida State University in Tallahas- Eve celebration in New York City who served as an IU student trustee Mystery Writers of America on April see. In March 2005, he received in November 2005 and shows with from 1977–79, lives in Reston. 27. In 2004, Mystery Scene won the an award for being an outstanding the New York Philharmonic in Janu- Eileen E. Cravens, BA’78, Anthony Award for Best Mystery graduate faculty mentor from the ary. A recipient of IU’s Distinguished MD’82, is a gastroenterologist in Magazine. Writer Stephen B. university. “My book Rulers, Guns, Alumni Service Award, Bell lives in Richmond, Ind. In her free time, Hockensmith, BA’90, was recently and Money: The Global Arms New York City. His Web site is www. she shows horses on the national featured in Mystery Scene as the Trade in the Age of Imperialism joshuabell.com. quarter-horse circuit. Her husband, author of the article “The Eternal 1860–1914, has been accepted for Frank M. “Bud” DeCleene III, Dana H. Reihman, BA’76, MD’79, is a Detective: The Undying Appeal of publication by Harvard Univer- BS’89, OD’91, is the Kokomo–How- physician in Richmond. Sherlock Holmes.” Hockensmith is sity Press and should come out in ard County (Ind.) Chamber of Independent, professional artist the author of Holmes on the Range, spring 2007,” he reports. Commerce Small-Business Person of and photographer Susan H. Wides, published by St. Martin’s Press in Sharon Persinger Shriver, the Year for 2005. He lives with his BA’78, exhibited a solo show, February. BA’86, is a biology instructor at wife, Catherine (Schneider), BS’89, “Kaaterskill,” in September 2005 at Emily Beard Christman, Penn State and was selected as a OD’91, in Kokomo. the Kim Foster Gallery in Chel- BA’84, of Chesapeake, Va., was recipient of the C.I. Noll Award for sea, N.Y. The photographs revisit promoted to captain in the National Excellence in Teaching. sites painted by the Hudson River Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- Patricia L. Wellinger, BA’86, 1990s School, she writes, and are to be re- tration Corps. She is commanding MLS’92, is the reference services co- Judith R. Wasko Chin, BA’90, viewed in Art in America magazine. officer of the NOAA shipThomas ordinator of the University of Den- DDS’94, gave birth to her son, A solo show of this work opened in Jefferson. ver’s Westminster Law Library. She Christian Joseph Chin, on Aug. 11, the summer at the Samuel Dorsky Phil Cox, BS’84, has been was awarded the university’s Red 2005. “Future IU class of 2027,” she Museum, State University of New named a director in the managed and Gold Award for 2005. Wellinger writes. Chin is an assistant professor York in New Paltz . She has also accounts team at Turner Invest- volunteers for the Colorado Associa- in the Department of Preventive been commissioned by New York ment Partners, an investment tion of Law Libraries and the Ameri- and Community Dentistry and the magazine to make new, fine art management firm headquartered can Association of Law Libraries. Department of Oral Facial Develop- views of New York City. View her in Berwyn, Penn. Cox is based in She is the chair of the AALL Call for ment at the IU School of Dentistry photographs at www.nymetro. Indianapolis, where he lives. Papers writing competition and is in Indianapolis. She lives in Carmel. com/nymetro/news/reasonstolove- John Fisher Gray, BA’84, the AALL library school recruitment Rebecca Winder Lyne, BA’90, ny/15394/index.html. writes that he continues to enjoy liaison for CoALL. BS’91, of Chicago, is corporate con- his assignment outside his compa- James D. Fielding, BA’87, was troller for CareerBuilder.com. Her ny’s law department. He is working promoted to executive vice presi- address is [email protected]. 1980s in Brussels as the head of human dent of global retail sales and mar- In the fall of 2005, Hilary H. “I may be living in Texas, but resources for Basell Polyolefins keting for Walt Disney Consumer Brandt, Cert/BA’91, served in a Indiana is still my home and IU Europe and Basell’s global Advanced Products. Based in Burbank, Calif., two-month assignment in the public is the only school,” writes Greta Polyolefins business. His son attends he is responsible for key account (continued on page 7) 6 Former HC student now directs honors program at Stetson hen Michael Denner first came to Russian language and literature. He enrolled WIndiana University in the fall of 1989, at Northwestern University, and he earned he didn’t have the slightest idea what he his doctorate in 2001. was going to be doing in four years, much From there, Denner went to Stetson Uni- less a decade and a half later. He probably versity in Florida (home of the aptly named didn’t expect to find himself an assistant Hatters) where he has since worked as a professor of Russian studies, the editor faculty member in the Russian studies pro- of the Tolstoy Studies Journal, and the gram. Denner’s research includes an article director of the Stetson University Honors on Tolstoy’s representation in modern media, Program in Deland, Fla. which will be published in the Journal of But that’s exactly where he ended up. Popular Culture. He became director of the Denner grew up in southern Indiana, Stetson Honors Program, which is one of the and it was his inability to determine what oldest in the nation, in 2004. He achieved his he was going to do with himself that most recent laurel, the position of editor at brought him to IU. “I chose Indiana Uni- Courtesy of Michael Denner the Tolstoy Studies Journal, in 2005. versity chiefly because I didn’t have a clue Michael Denner Denner is relatively nonchalant about what it was that I wanted to do, and I fig- change program with the Ministry of Educa- acquiring these varied responsibilities. “It’s ured a large university would offer the most tion in Moscow. They brought students and hard to say exactly how I became the direc- opportunities for exploring my options. In faculty from Moscow to Bloomington and tor of the University Honors Program and retrospect, this presumption was very true.” sent people from IU to teach English at Rus- the editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal,” Denner went on to double major in sian schools. he says. “I’ve always worked in interesting Slavic languages and literatures as well as While his time at IU was an enriching jobs while an undergraduate and graduate political science. He lived in Collins LLC experience and had helped him develop student, and I developed a broad back- while on campus, an experience that, along some new and diverse interests, he still ground in large-project management and, with his Honors College classes, helped hadn’t settled on a single direction for almost accidentally, in digital technolo- him form a deep commitment to the idea his life. After graduation, Denner “spent a gies. That, combined with my hands-on of an intellectual community. “Some of the couple of years knocking around Blooming- experience in the publishing industry and best courses I had at IU were in the Honors ton,” and working at a Department of Edu- a strong research portfolio, led to my selec- College,” he says, and he cites a course that cation-run program with the Educational tion as the editor of the Journal. I’ve also was taught by then-chancellor Kenneth R.R. Resources and Information Clearinghouse. always worked, in some capacity or another, Gros Louis on philosophy and politics as par- There he acquired a thorough background with high-achieving students. That likely ticularly exciting and memorable. He didn’t in publishing, in many of its varied forms, made me a good candidate for the director- realize it at the time, but these experiences along with marketing and editing. Although ship of the University Honors Program.” would be particularly useful later on. this experience was both interesting and The Stetson Honors Program is similar Perhaps his most interesting college practical, it was insufficiently challenging to the one at IU, in that in offers intense, experience was during a Collins course to hold his interest for long. At this point, interdisciplinary courses that run parallel taught by doctoral student Charles Byrd on Denner decided to leave his college town, to departmental honors programs, giving Russian/Soviet education. Considering how his home state, and his country as well. students a wider range of intellectual expe- recently Eastern Europe had begun to de- Through the IU-NEW Exchange, Denner rience to complement the deeper focus of communize, this was an especially volatile took the opportunity to see what a “very a particular department’s honors projects. but also interesting time to be investigat- cold semester teaching English to 15-year- He hopes his involvement with the Honors ing that subject. Amazingly, it was as a class olds in Moscow Special School #10” would Program and the Journal will “foster, in project that Denner and the other students be like. His experience in Russia helped very different ways, an intellectual commu- organized IU-NEW (Network for East-West) crystallize what his future would be. When nity that will ultimately pay rich dividends Exchange. Over the course of the semester, he returned to the United States, he was for things I care deeply about.” they managed to establish an official ex- determined to further his knowledge of — Mathew Laird

dren, Laura and Rachael. She lives in firm’s business section, he can be Cage’s Musicircus at Chicago’s Alumni notebook Evansville, Ind., and can be reached reached at howard.hirsch@hklaw. Museum of Contemporary Art in (continued from page 6) at [email protected]. com. September 2005. She received the affairs section of the U.S. Embassy Joe Hensler, BS’91, MBA’92, Carol B. Kaufmann, BA’91, 1998 Tobias Wolff Award for fiction in Kiev, Ukraine. The assignment has assumed a new role as associ- writes, “I’ve been settled in the from The Bellingham Review. She was part of a year-long leadership ate director of global training and Washington, D.C., area for 15 years has written work featured in Andrei development program for govern- development at Procter & Gamble now. My husband, Kevin Enochs, Codrescu’s The Exquisite Corpse: A ment managers. Brandt works in the Co., in . He and his wife, and I just had a baby, Luke, this Journal of Letter and Life, Nimrod Bureau of Educational and Cultural Becky, have two children, Sarah, 3, past October [2005]. During the International Journal, The Beloit Affairs at the U.S. Department of and Daniel, 1. A former member day, I’m a staff writer at National Poetry Journal, The Massachusetts State in Washington, D.C. of the IUAA Executive Council, he Geographic magazine. In my ‘free’ Review, The Notre Dame Review, Loretta Young Heidorn, BS’91, writes that he and Becky are “very time, I publish travel articles and es- and The Columbia Poetry Review, is manager of continuous improve- proud that Sarah has learned how says. I can be reached at ckaufman@ among other publications. Mikkalo ment and productivity for Vectren. to sing the IU fight song.” ngs.org.” lives in Chicago. A certified public accountant, she is Howard S. Hirsch, BS’91, is Poet, performer, philosopher, Michael S. Stephens, BS’91, is married to Robert Heidorn and has a partner in the office of and raconteur Erika Mikkalo, an editor in the reference division a child, Johnnie, and two stepchil- Holland & Knight. A member of the BA’91, BFA’92, participated in John (continued on page 8) 7 A cheerleading coach for 13 John W. Mervilde, BA’96, lives for persons living with HIV. His ad- Alumni notebook years, Mark A. Krockover, BA’93, in Indianapolis and is an attorney dress is [email protected]. (continued from page 7) also teaches chemistry at Maine with Meils Thompson Dietz & at Thomas Nelson Publishers in East High School in Park Ridge, Ill. Berish. His address is jmervilde@ Nashville, Tenn., and an adjunct pro- In each of the past 11 years, his sbcglobal.net. 2000s fessor of church history at Asbury coed cheerleading team has placed Brian D. Yeley, BS’96, JD’99, Sarah C. Bauer, BS’00, and her hus- Theological Seminary. He received in the top 10 in the Illinois High and Susan Barker Yeley, BA’99, band, Cristopher D. Kennedy, BS’00, a PhD in American religious his- School Association competition. have moved back to Bloomington, report that they are happily married tory from Vanderbilt University in Nanette L. Wilkin, BAJ’93, is a Ind., where he works for the IU and living in Chicago. December 2004. Stephens and his speechwriter for U.S. Sen. Debbie Foundation. Their daughter, Anna Bryan S. Cameron, BA’00, has wife, Heather Harriss, have been Stabenow of Michigan. Wilkin lives Grace Yeley, was born on Aug. 24, begun work on a doctorate in Span- married for 10 years and are the in Washington, D.C. 2005. Susan planned to look for ish at the University of Pennsylva- parents of Daniel and Emma Anne. Lucas B. Allsbrook, BFA’94, work in interior design in early nia. He can be reached at bryanc@ Derek Bowen, BS’92, MBA’98, was the “tour artist” who accompa- 2006 and can be reached at sbye- sas.upenn.edu. is marketing director at Sara Lee in nied Charles and his wife, [email protected]. Erica L. Hall Beck, BA’00, is Chicago, His wife, Christina, BSN’94, Camilla, on their U.S. visit in early Andrea Kumler, BS’97, of La- a translator at Science Application is taking time off from her nursing November 2005. Allsbrook was Fontaine, Ind., is a physical therapist International Corp., in McLean, career to stay at home with their charged with the task of sketch- at Howard Regional Health System Va. She is pursuing a master of children, Megan and Danielle, who ing and painting scenes from the West Campus in Kokomo. She science degree in foreign language was born in November 2005. The prince’s tour, which included stops earned a doctor of physical therapy education through IU’s School Bowens live in Downers Grove, Ill. at organic farms and farmers’ mar- degree from the Krannert School of of Education Distance Education: Martin W. McManaman, kets. Allsbrook lives in Waynesville, Physical Therapy at the Univer- Language Education Program. She BA’92, was promoted from associate N.C., and is an adjunct professor of sity of Indianapolis. Her address is has previously worked as a transla- attorney to partner at the Chicago drawing at the University of North [email protected]. tor for the U.S. Army in California, law office of Lowis & Gellen. He Carolina, Asheville. Matthew S. Menzie, BA’97, Arizona, and Georgia. Beck lives in counsels and represents manufactur- Andrea E. Leap, BA/BM’94, earned a JD in 2000 from UCLA and Norristown, Pa. ing companies, service firms, and performed in Too Many Sopranos is an attorney for Katten Muchin Jennifer M. Hess, BA’00, JD’03, financial institutions in business last summer with Light Opera Okla- Rosenman in Los Angeles. is an attorney at Petit Hess Harlow disputes. He has served as an instruc- homa in Tulsa. D. Tyson Jominy, BS’98, gradu- Petit & Slack in Carmel, Ind. She tor for Loyola Law School’s Heather Dickerson Wright, ated with an MBA from the Univer- works with her father, John Hess, Comparative Trial Advocacy Program. Cert/BA’94, MLS’99, works for ASRC sity of Chicago in 2004. He works BA’65, JD’68. Julie A. Stillabower Rosen- Aerospace Corp. as the manager of in corporate finance for an oil field Jeremiah C. Jordan, BA’00, of winkel, BA’92, JD’94, has been the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environ- services company in Houston. He Los Angeles, worked as a producer named a partner at the law firm of mental Research Center Library for lives in Kingwood, Texas, and can be on the independent filmJoshua Krieg DeVault. She joined the Ham- the U.S. Environmental Protection reached at [email protected]. with three other IU alumni. He is mond, Ind., office as an associate Agency. She also reviews Slavic Amy Silver-Judd, BA’98, writes, currently producing DVD special in May 2002 and is a member of fiction in translation forLibrary “My husband, Jason, and I are living features for Jerry Bruckheimer, Dis- the firm’s health care and litiga- Journal. The Cincinnati resident in Columbus, Ohio, where I’m still ney, Fox, Warner Brothers, and more. tion practice groups. Rosenwinkel can be reached at wright.heather@ working as a speech therapist and Marc A. Passo, BA’00, gradu- lives in Schererville, Ind., with her epa.gov. as a mother of one great 2-year-old, ated first in his class from the Nor- husband Edward T., Cert/BS’94, and In January, Jeffrey D. Jones, Samson. I still do theater on the walk (Conn.) Community College their two children, Tara and Jake. BS’95, was promoted from vice side. Currently, I’m in a semi-profes- Paramedic Program, worked for a Andrew U.D. Straw, BA’92, president to associate director sional production of Fiddler on the time as a paramedic in both Con- MS’95, JD’97, is a research assistant of investment banking at Sandler Roof, in which I’m playing Tevye’s necticut and Massachusetts, and is in the education faculty of the Uni- O’Neill & Partners. He and his wife, oldest daughter, Tzeitel. It’s a lot of currently a medical student at Tufts versity of Otago in Dunedin, New Alexa (Brill), BA’96, MSW’98, live in fun. Hi to all the former Hoosiers University in . Zealand. He researches and writes Chicago. out there!” How do you prove to yourself on critical literacy from a post- Brian P. Poi, BA’95, is a senior Eve I. Shapiro, Cert/BA’98, that you’ve recovered from a near- structuralist perspective. He has economist at StataCorp, a provider received a PhD in sociology from fatal accident? If you’re Dawn M. two children, Ava and Manu, with of statistical analysis software, in the University of California, Santa Reiss, BAJ’00, you participate in a his wife, Paola Voci, MA’97, PhD’02, College Station, Texas. He received a Barbara, in December 2005. She triathlon. An I-Woman in crew and who teaches Chinese at the Univer- PhD in economics from the Univer- now lectures at the University of an alternate to the United States’ sity of Otago. He can be reached at sity of Michigan in 2002. He can be San Francisco. Olympic rowing camp in 2000, Re- [email protected]. reached at [email protected]. Bradley J. Preamble, BA’99, of iss accepted a job with The Sport- Amy R. Burkhead Wolver- Rebecca C. Rastetter, BS’95, is Washington, D.C., is an attorney in ing News in the autumn of 2000 to ton, BA’92, joined T-Mobile USA as a pediatrician in Milford, Ohio. She the chief counsel office of the Fed- drive with two other reporters to senior corporate counsel of federal and her husband, Jonathan Puchal- eral Aviation Administration, where every NFL city and write about the regulatory affairs. Working out of ski, have two young children, Reese he litigates cases involving aircraft games and the experience. On Dec. T-Mobile’s Washington, D.C., office, and Corinne June. The family lives accidents. He also does pro bono 5, 2000, near the end of the road she represents the company in in Cincinnati and can be reached at work for the Whitman-Walker clinic, trip, the three were in a serious car regulatory matters before the Fed- [email protected]. providing estate-planning services (continued on page 9) eral Communications Commission Katie A. Lauer Wadington, and supports its legislative team on BAJ’95, is the assistant news editor Capitol Hill. She also handles Inter- for the Asheville Citizen–Times in Find a job at IUAlumniCareers.com net-related issues for the company. Asheville, N.C. She and her husband, Wolverton was elected as a trustee Brad, BS’94, moved to Arden, N.C. IUAlumniCareers.com provides online career and mentoring of the Federal Communications Bar in March 2005. He is a podiatrist at services for IU alumni. Register at IUAlumniCareers.com to search Association Foundation. She writes Mountain Podiatry PA in Hender- for jobs posted by employers, post your résumé for review by that she is looking forward to sonville, N.C. She writes, “We’re employers, or search for an alumni mentor for career advice. Only continuing the foundation’s philan- enjoying living in the mountains IU Alumni Association members may search for jobs and mentors, thropic efforts in the remainder of with Sarah, 6, and John, 3, after a so activate your membership today! Contact the IUAA membership her three-year term. decade in Chicago.” department at [email protected] or (800) 824-3044. 8 Alumni notebook (continued from page 8) Kathleen Claussen named Mitchell Scholar accident. Her colleagues were fine, ay graduate Kathleen and Fulbright competitions 2005 she was awarded IU’s but Reiss suffered three broken ribs, a punctured lung, a concussion, and MClaussen, a Wells Scholar to pursue a Mitchell Scholar- Palmer-Brandon Prize, which internal bleeding. Years of pain, heal- and member of the IU Hutton ship. This year’s competition she used to fund a study of ing, and physical therapy followed. Honors College, was named included 236 applicants from civil society in Kosovo. No longer the paragon of physi- one of 12 national recipients 171 colleges and universities At Queen’s University, she cal fitness, Reiss wanted to prove of the 2006–07 George J. across the nation. will study the topics of citizen- to herself that she had recovered Mitchell Scholarship. A resident of ship and conflict from the crash. After six months of The fourth IU student to Bethlehem, Pa., resolution as they training, she entered the twilight be named a Mitchell Scholar, Claussen received relate to the con- triathlon in Crystal River, Fla., on Claussen will seek a graduate a bachelor of arts cept of identity. July 30, 2005. That night, Reiss swam degree in international poli- degree in May with Then she plans a quarter mile, biked 10 miles, and ran three miles to finish in less than tics at Queen’s University in a double major in to attend a U.S. 92 minutes. Now a sports reporter Belfast, Northern Ireland. comparative social law school with for the St. Petersburg Times in Launched in 1998, the policy and ideol- the goal of one Florida, Reiss wrote about the acci- Mitchell Scholarship rec- ogy (through IU’s day becoming dent, her recovery, and the triathlon ognizes outstanding young Individualized Major Courtesy of Indiana University an international in the newspaper’s Dec. 5 edition. Americans who exhibit the Program) and Span- Kathleen Claussen judge. Aaron M. Staser, BS’00, JD’03, highest standards of academic ish. She has a double minor As a legal scholar in the joined Barnes & Thornburg, India- excellence, leadership, and in political science and West field of human rights and napolis, as an associate in the firm’s service. The scholarship, European studies. At IU, she humanitarian law, Claussen intellectual property department. which is administered by the founded Conversations About said she will strive to further Todd Belf-Becker, BA’01, of Marblehead, Mass., graduated in May U.S.–Ireland Alliance, is named Service and Engagement, an international justice. from the Tufts University School of in honor of former U.S. Sen- international videoconference “The affirmation of Dental Medicine. He is in practice ate Majority Leader George program that connects IU stu- universal rights and the outside Boston with his father, J. Mitchell, who chaired the dents with their peers around simultaneous acknowledg- David B. Becker, BA’72, and grandfa- historic Northern Ireland the world for the purpose of ment of sweeping disparities ther, Norman Becker, DDS’46. peace process in the mid-to- discussing international poli- throughout the world have Angelique N. Cabral, BA’01, late 1990s. It is supported by tics, global affairs, and public compelled me to want to writes, “After graduating from IU, an endowment established by service. marry my passion for knowl- I moved to New York City. I have the government of Ireland. Actively involved in com- edge with a commitment to been here for four years and am Though still relatively munity-service activities, action,” Claussen said. “I aspire acting professionally now. I have a Toyota commercial and a Chase new, the Mitchell Scholar- Claussen frequently repre- to live up to former Senator commercial playing. … I have been ships have become one of the sents IU at national and in- Mitchell’s example: to not seen over the past year on Guiding most prestigious, intensely ternational civic engagement only serve the public good Light and All My Children. I am competitive fellowship conferences. She has conduct- but to assertively realize posi- training for the NYC marathon now programs in the United ed research and interned in tive change. I’ll contribute my and am studying acting under Wynn States. Many recipients have various countries, including experience, hoping to inspire Handman. Many of my fellow IU withdrawn from the long- Belgium, Denmark, Mexico, others to join in our collec- students live here too and remain established Rhodes, Marshall, and Trinidad and Tobago. In tive vision as a result.” very close friends.” Maria Cohen Konev, Cert/ BA’01, is a human-relations as- sistant at Liquid Transport Corp. in ment director. Ottolini replaced a Peace Corps volunteer leader for the Bolshoi Theatre. Indianapolis. She received a senior Vincent A. Pellegrino III, BS’99, who the Ashanti region of Ghana in West Morgan Wills, BS’02, graduated professional of human resources is now the organization’s sales and Africa. She spent her first two years from the University of Louisville’s title in June 2005. Konev married in marketing director. The Evans Schol- in the Peace Corps as a chemistry Brandeis School of Law in May May 2005 and lives in Carmel. ars Foundation provides undergrad- and biology teacher in the Ghana- and obtained a license to practice Julie M. Lamb, BS’01, of Atlanta, uate scholarships for golf caddies. ian village of Nsuta. Her address is law in Kentucky in October. She is a branch manager for Wise Foods. Ottolini was president of the Evans [email protected]. is an associate attorney at Lloyd & She serves on the board of the Scholars National Committee in Nancy A. Lewis, BS’02, of McDaniel in Louisville. Her address Atlanta Chapter of the IUAA. 2000-2001. He lives in Chicago. Chicago, is a marketing assistant is [email protected]. Mariah C. Lord, BS’01, is a Marsha Puterbaugh Swanson, for Bowman Barrett & Associates Leah K. Boley, BA’03, spent 2005 graduate of UNITE, an alterna- BS’01, was married to Mark Swan- Inc.,where she is working on the two years working in the film tive teaching certification program son on July 16, 2005, at Beck Chapel O’Hare Modernization Program. For industry in Nashville, Tenn. Her last of the Inner City Teaching Corps in on the IU Bloomington campus. the project, she is a support staff project was the feature film The Chicago. She has received an Illinois Carmiya H. Kasse, BA’01, member responsible for account- Second Chance, for which she as- teaching certificate and is working married Michael Harlan Weinraub ing, permitting, and administration. sisted in the art department. on a master’s degree in education in December 2005. She received a Lewis is concurrently working on Summer Johnson, BA’03, lives from Northwestern University. She master’s degree in social work from an MBA degree at DePaul University. in and is working on a currently teaches fourth grade at St. and a master’s Sarah Ripp, BS’02, graduated doctorate in bioethics and health Pius V School. in Jewish studies from the Jewish in 2005 with an MFA in dance from policy at Johns Hopkins. Gabriel D. Ottolini, BS’01, Theological Seminary of America. the University of California, Irvine. Emily M. Vaughan, BS’03, is a joined the Western Golf Association/ The Weinraubs live in New York City. The day of graduation, she flew to doctoral student in the pharmacol- Evans Scholars Foundation staff in Jennifer S. Burnett, Cert/BA/ Moscow to perform at the 10th ogy department at the University of January 2005 as associate tourna- BS’02, of Panama City Beach, Fla., is International Ballet Competition at Wisconsin–Madison. 9 Extracurricular Nonprofit Org. (continued from page 4) Postage PAID lecture titled “Islam: Religion, Politics, and Indiana University the Future” and to participate in a sup- Alumni Association per discussion. The HHC was among the co-sponsors of a frank discussion that two anti-violence educators and rape crisis advocates had with an audience of close to 300 about the cultural landscape and the messages transmitted through mainstream media about men and women, sexuality, and race. IU’s student-run CASE (Conver- sations About Service and Engagement) worked with other organizations, including the HHC, to put on a daylong conference in Indianapolis on the meaning of global citizenship and the impact of globalization on cultural identity. The conference drew students from more than 32 U.S. colleges and universities and included an interactive Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A. international videoconference with stu- dents from 10 countries, as well as a lunch with Gillian Sorensen, senior adviser at the United Nations Foundation and former as- Hutton Honors College Alumni: What’s new?

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