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Ohio Wesleyan Magazine OWU VOLUME 89 ISSUE NO.3 r FALL 2012 r Measuring Success OHO I WESLEYAN alumni SHARE THEIR STORIES anD OWU CONNECTIONS The Opposite VOLUME 89 ISSUE NO. 3 r FALL 2012 of Ordinary www.owualumni.com Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Online Community Editor Pamela Besel Class Notes Editor Andrea Misko Strle ’99 OWUOhio Wesleyan Magazine [email protected] Designer Sara Stuntz FEATURES // Contributing Writers Pam Besel Andrea Misko Strle ’99 Mark Cooper Amanda Zechiel ’09 9 Finding Success Gretchen Hirsch Twenty-nine OWU alumni portray in words and deeds, the true meaning of success. OWU Contributing Photographers outcomes that rock. Nannette Bedway Chris Keeney Sara Blake Paul Molitor Alex Crump ’13 Mark Schmitter ’12 Robert Erdmann Richard Watherwax Interim Director of Marketing and Communication Cole Hatcher Marketing and Communication Office (740) 368-3335 Director of Alumni Relations Brenda DeWitt Alumni Relations Office Phone: (740) 368-3325 Fax: (740) 368-3328 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.owu.edu OWU Magazine: http://magazine.owu.edu The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine (ISSN 0030-1221) For more of their is published in Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring stories, visit by Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. www.owu.edu/ alumnisuccess Periodicals postage paid at Delaware, Ohio and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Magazine, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 43015. General University telephone number: (740) 368-2000. ED ITORIAL ADVISORY Pam Besel, Marketing and Communication Roger Ingles, Athletics BoaRD MEMBERS Mark Cooper, Marketing and Communication Ida Mostofi, Marketing and Communication Brenda DeWitt, Alumni Relations Nancy Bihl Rutkowski, Student Involvement Printed on recycled paper Rebecca Eckstein, Admission and Financial Aid Chuck Steinmetz, Interim Provost Colleen Garland, University Relations Sara Stuntz, Marketing and Communication DEPARTMENTS // 2 // LEADER’S LETTER 4 // FROM THE JAYWALK Happy Birthday, Ross Museum! Welcome to the Class of 2016 Food for Thought CASE Gold for OWU 8 // GIFTS AND GRATITUDE Strength and Conditioning Upgrades Fountain Fun 31 // BISHOP BATTLES Meet Jeff Long ’82 The Legacy of Coach Jack Fouts ’48 34 // ALUMNI HAPPENINGS Calendar of Events Connections That Matter Golf Outing Class Notes 48 // THE FINAL WORD With his passing last June, award-winning jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator Abram Wilson ’95, left a legacy of his phenomenal talent, success, and love for music that he shared with the world. Abram’s former professor and mentor, Larry Griffin, shares special memories of his student and friend. Stuyvesant Hall at Night Thanks to the generous support of OWU alumni and friends, Ohio Wesleyan’s Stuyvesant Hall—our oldest residential facility— has undergone a 15-month restoration project and was rededicated during Family Weekend 2012. With many new amenities for students, “Stuy” exemplifies the strategic objective of renewing OWU’s residential campus. r OWU FALL 2012 1 Leader’s Letter >> Connections That Matter WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF challenges students to connect theory to of teaching and learning on the OWU CONNECTIVITY THAT ONLY A FEW practice by complementing classroom campus. Countless alumni have shared YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE SEEMED learning with real-world experiences. In with me stories of particular moments TO BE THE STUFF OF SCIENCE the general education program, Course in their student experiences when a FIctION. When I stand at the foot of Connection networks invite students to take professor or staff member spoke directly the JAYwalk with students waiting to cross apparently unrelated courses that teach our to them in ways that may have changed Sandusky Street, I hear people talking on students to explore complex problems from the course of their lives. Sometimes it their phones to parents at home or friends the perspectives of multiple disciplines. was a word of encouragement, sometimes halfway around the world. I see students Technology connects students with an an admonition, sometimes a challenge, looking at handheld devices to check the unimaginable volume of resources and brings sometimes a suggestion, and sometimes most recent Facebook posts or the latest guest lecturers to the OWU classroom from a probing question. In every case, these weather forecast. On the first day of class anywhere on the planet. interactions happened in the context of a this fall, a student on the JAYwalk handed Connections are critical to our pedagogy relationship between human beings who me an iPhone and asked me to point on and fundamental to the way the lives of our were connected. I hear stories of equal the campus map to the building where students are ordered. While these connections significance related to the connections she was due in three minutes for a first include the apparently abstract connections of that OWU students establish with fellow period class. We live in a connected world interdisciplinary work in the curriculum and students. Often, these are relationships where google is a verb, where tweeting the real-time connections made possible by that last a lifetime. These are connections rarely refers to the chirp of a bird, and technology, there still is no substitute for the that matter. where being linkedin has nothing to do human connection. This year, I am engaged in a series of with the cuffs on your shirt. When I visit with OWU alumni across conversations with OWU alumni, parents, On campus, we encourage students the country, I am reminded over and over and friends across the country. These to think about the connections that again of the impact that occurs when students conversations are structured around the enrich their education. Our curriculum and faculty are connected in the process theme “Connections That Matter.” As 2 OWU r FALL 2012 >> Leader’s Letter we hear again the stories of connections prepared them for leadership and service. in your life to support the continued within the OWU family, we have the It is especially gratifying when those stories advancement of OWU and the education of opportunity to talk about ways to leverage reflect times in which alumni are able future generations of students? those connections for the advancement to leverage connections with their alma In a world that is increasingly connected of Ohio Wesleyan in the future. We mater, former professors, and fellow alumni in ways too numerous to name or number, are talking at length about the ways in in their professional lives and volunteer these are the connections that matter. Thank which OWU alumni can utilize their commitments. you for your connection to Ohio Wesleyan, personal connections to help attract the In this issue of the Magazine, we and for all you do to make your connection next generation of talented students to share some of those stories. You will read matter. Ohio Wesleyan; about how those same about alumni from different generations connections can create opportunities who live in various parts of the world and for today’s students to engage in have devoted their lives to a vast array of undergraduate research, internships and professional and personal commitments. apprenticeships, volunteer service, cross- They share in common their connections Rock Jones cultural experiences, and global encounters to Ohio Wesleyan University. Many of President of Ohio Wesleyan University arranged by alumni; and about how them speak specifically about how these connections within the OWU family can connections have enriched their lives and generate philanthropic support to advance advanced their abilities to achieve fulfillment our mission and help prepare the next and satisfaction. All of them would agree generation of moral leaders for a global that these are connections that matter. society. As you read their stories, I invite you to On campus, we embrace think about the connections that define your opportunities to share with our students relationship with Ohio Wesleyan. Who are the extraordinary accomplishments of the people represented in those connections? OWU alumni and the ways in which How have they enriched your life? How, in connections with Ohio Wesleyan turn, might you leverage the connections OWU r FALL 2012 3 From the JAYwalk >> Happy Birthday, Ross Art Museum! Recently celebrating its 10th anniversary of operation at OWU, the Richard M. Ross Art Museum is, in every way, fulfilling its mission: to provide exhibitions of distinctive quality and content, stewardship, and growth of its permanent collection, and lectures and educational support for the benefit of the University and wider central Ohio community. “The primary goal of the Ross Museum is to mount exhibitions and conduct events that directly relate to the curriculum of the fine arts department,” says Justin Kronewetter, director of the museum. To accomplish that goal, he relies heavily on advice from several sources both on and off campus, as well as ongoing input from the museum’s National Board of Advisors, whose members serve New exhibitions in the Ross three-year terms and attend meetings in the Museum are enjoyed by fall and spring of each academic year. “We members of the OWU family and certainly wouldn’t be where we are today surrounding community. without the board’s generous support and active involvement in almost every phase of our operation.” As Kronewetter reflects on several museum-related accomplishments, works from the collection have been loaned to listing of exhibitions may be viewed online at he highlights the ways in which he and his museums in Columbus, Oklahoma City, and ross.owu.edu) include photographs, lithographs, Tom Goodman ’76, President and CEO of staff have been able to interface with the fine Yonkers, and galleries at universities such as painted wood and painted aluminum sculpture, Goodman Media International arts department and other components of the Denison and Kenyon. “Receiving loan requests and mixed media art. The annual senior fine campus community, whether by maintaining a is a testament to the quality of the collection,” arts exhibition—including a reception with the multifaceted exhibition program or co-hosting says Kronewetter.

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