OWUOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | SPRING 2020 MAGAZINE

Cheers! It’s a spirited life in the wine & beer business

IN THIS ISSUE TOP 10 OF THE ’10S MOCK CONVENTION HALL OF FAME COACH The first warm spring days always bring some classes out into the sunshine on the historic campus. Though the campus will be empty in the spring of 2020, we know this scene will be repeated in years to come. (Photo by Mark Schmitter ’12) 14

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features 21 14 The Best of the Bishop Decade It was a decade of achievement at OWU. What were the top 10 highlights from the departments past 10 years?

2 LEADER’S LETTER 16 Cheers! OWU alumni in this unique and tough 4 FROM THE JAYWALK industry know the joys and challenges of 7 GREEK LIFE running a brewery, creating a tasty wine, and 8 BISHOP BATTLES delivering booze. 9 CLASS ACTS 21 How to choose a good beer 10 COMFORT ZONES or bottle of wine 12 ALUMNI PROFILE Do you like grapefruit? Your answer may 13 TIMESCAPES help you select your next bottle of wine. 24 ALUMNI HAPPENINGS 26 GIFTS AND GRATITUDE On the cover: Amy Prosenjak ’94, 27 CALENDAR CEO of A to Z Wineworks in 28 FACULTY NOTES Newberg, Oregon

30 CLASS NOTES 48 FINAL WORD Cover photo by John Valls

SPRING 2020 | 1 leader’sletter Liberal arts degree is today’s best career preparation

he Ohio Wesleyan Board bottom quintile of of Trustees held a retreat family income to in February to consider the the top quintile. challenges and opportunities facing Our institutions OWU over the next decade. The Board are the ladder of heard reports on the characteristics opportunity. of Generation Z, the very different The Board generation of students entering acknowledged that college now. The Board reviewed the we live in a time impact of changing demographics on of unprecedented American higher education, including disruption and the fact that the number of students change in higher entering college in this country has education. Such declined each year for the past six a time requires years, and they considered the impact our university to of technology on higher education in examine every the future. aspect of the Photo by Paul Morton Schapiro, president of Vernon ways in which we As an Arkansas delegate, Rock Jones addresses the 2020 Mock Northwestern University and an organize to educate Convention in February. The convention was a showcase for liberal arts economist who has devoted 40 years students. At the same learning, as students debated issues of science, economics, the arts, education, and, of course, politics. to the study of the economics of time, the Board was higher education, was the keynote clear at the conclusion that has changed dramatically over the speaker. Morton shared data from his of the retreat that our future rests in past 25 years. Together, they exude research showing that a liberal arts continued excellence in liberal arts the values and benefits of liberal arts education is the best preparation education. education. for students who will move across I marvel at the stories I hear from Ohio Wesleyan will continue to multiple occupations over the course our alumni about how their liberal arts adapt to serve the changing needs of of their lifetime. He noted that the education has propelled them into lives our students, including ensuring our of meaning and impact, enrichment and curriculum prepares students for lives fulfillment. of meaningful and productive work and “Our institutions In this issue of OWU Magazine, you providing increasing support through will read about alumni who followed our Career Connection program. are the ladder of their passions to the wine and beer We will do this while preserving our industry. Some are entrepreneurs who abiding commitment to the values and opportunity.” started their own companies, created benefits of an education grounded in their own brews, and developed their the liberal arts. skills needed for the 21st-century own distribution networks. Others are As you read this issue, I encourage workforce include quantitative skills, senior executives in larger organizations. you to consider the ways in which your deep aesthetic appreciation, respect for Their undergraduate majors include life has been enriched by your liberal diversity and inclusion, empathy, tools accounting, chemistry, philosophy, arts education, and in your own way for lifelong learning, and the humility politics and government, and to raise a glass to your alma mater and to acknowledge how little one knows psychology. They studied broadly across to the enduring values that give and how much one must learn. These the disciplines, and they studied deeply OWU a memorable history and a skills are deeply embedded in liberal in their chosen major. They developed bright future. education. the tools of creativity, inquiry, analysis, Morton further noted that studies of entrepreneurship, teamwork, and economic mobility show that selective resilience required for success in a liberal arts colleges have the best record rapidly changing world. Rock Jones in all of higher education for providing With those tools, they have taken President, Ohio Wesleyan University pathways for students to climb from the their place in leadership in an industry Twitter: @owu_rockjones

2 | OWU Adapting and pivoting covid-19: as the world shifts OWUOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY The deadline for this issue of OWU Magazine hit just as the COVID-19 MAGAZINE pandemic was closing schools and businesses and transforming all of SPRING 2020 | Volume 97 Issue No. 1 our lives. The coronavirus has flipped our world upside down, and spring semester at OWU is equally upturned. At the time of this writing (mid- Vice President for University Advancement Natalie M. Doan, J.D. ’03 March), we have ended in-person classes for the semester, and faculty are working together—at a safe social distance—to rework classes and teach Director of Alumni Relations remotely to students scattered across the country and around the world. Katie Webster The crisis is rapidly changing from day to day. We have postponed Commencement with the goal of rescheduling it to celebrate our seniors Editor and Chief Communications Officer Will Kopp sometime this summer. [email protected] This situation is most distressing to our seniors, who are missing their final spring semester on campus with their friends. In his Class Notes Editor message to seniors committing to rescheduling rather than canceling Reilly Wright ’20 Commencement, President Rock Jones wrote: “As much as you want to Copy Editor be here to complete your senior year, we want you here, too. We have Susan Kopp watched you grow and mature so much over the past four years as your Ohio Wesleyan classes and experiences have opened your eyes to the Editorial Assistant world and helped you to define your role in it. How could we not gather Christina Semeraro ’20 to celebrate something so significant?” Designer We have also had to cancel Reunion Weekend, and we plan to invite Jennifer Brinckerhoff 2020 reunion classes to a grand celebration with 2021 reunion classes next spring. Contributing Writers At this time of crisis and Cole Hatcher, Ericka Kurtz uncertainty, we are inspired by “This situation is Editorial Advisory Board the creativity and resilience of Natalie Doan, Erin Fletcher, Shala Hankison ’95, OWU students, employees, and Ericka Kurtz, Stefanie Niles, Mike Plantholt, alumni. In that truly liberal arts most distressing Eugene Rutigliano, Nancy Bihl Rutkowski, Katie spirit, Chris Sayer ’99, featured Webster, Doug Zipp in our cover story as the founder to our seniors, Printed by Lane Press, South Burlington, Vt. and owner of Connecticut’s who are missing Brewery Legitimus, told us on St. Office of University Communications Patrick’s Day: “We are in good 740-368-3335 shape here for the moment. Still their final spring [email protected] able to sell curbside, and luckily Alumni Relations Office we have the education and semester.” 740-368-3325 life-skill set to hold out better [email protected] than others. (On our staff are) two MBAs, a JD, and two years in the Peace Corps. We can pivot and adapt to a situation quicker than most!” OWU Website: www.owu.edu On behalf of President Rock Jones and all of those who have been OWU Magazine: owu.edu/magazine separated from the OWU campus in this time of remote work, teaching, The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine and learning, the OWU Magazine staff wishes you health, happiness, and ISSN 0030-1221 the spirit to adapt, pivot, and persevere as we continue to navigate this most challenging time.

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Having a ball During President’s Ball, an annual dance hosted by OWU’s President’s Club, students celebrate the end of fall semester with music and dancing. President’s Ball was established in 1985 and has provided students with a memorable night ever since. Pictured from left, first-year students Julia Molino, Elle Dickey, and Olivia Guenzel dance the night away at their first Pres Ball.

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Hayes connects OWU and Paraguay

Embassy of Paraguay Ambassador Manuel Cáceres (left) and University President Rock Jones sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Jan. 10 creating a new Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship Program to support Paraguay’s best and brightest high school students. Hayes, a Delaware native, is considered a hero in Paraguay. The program will provide one student from Paraguay with a full-tuition scholarship of about $47,000, and up to five others with scholarships of $40,000 based on their academic record. Photo by Reilly Wright ’20

4 | OWU Bible from first woman graduate returns to OWU Beeghly Library recently received a Bible originally presented to Ohio Wesleyan’s first female graduate, Inez White Dial. In 1879, the OWU Alumni Association presented the Bible to Dial as she received her degree from the newly coeducational University. Dial’s granddaughter, Rebecca Lovett, donated this historic find to the University. The 1879 degree followed Dial’s first bachelor’s degree in 1875 from Ohio Wesleyan Female College, shortly before its merger with Ohio Wesleyan University in 1877. She received a master’s degree from the University in 1883. Pictured is the inscription in the Bible. Photos by Eugene Rutigliano

Student wins $500 for accounting video

If Nick Braydich ’20 would ever want to was one of the top five national vote leave his promising career in accounting, recipients for his video explaining why maybe he could turn to filmmaking. he wants to become a CPA. Braydich In December, he won $500 in the completed a three-month internship national “ThisWayToCPA” student video with PricewaterhouseCoopers in competition sponsored by the American Columbus last spring, was offered a job Institute of Certified Public Accountants. with the Big 4 accounting firm, and will The accounting major from Struthers, Ohio, begin working there after graduation.

New programs connect science, math, and economics

Two new programs are bringing a STEM economics majors include financial Master of Science in Management- (science, technology, engineering, and analyst, economic forecaster, Finance degree from CWRU’s math) focus to economics and finance. investment banker, benefits analyst, and Weatherhead School of Management. This fall OWU is launching a new other jobs requiring workers skilled in Through the new agreement, Ohio major in quantitative economics that interpreting, analyzing, and presenting Wesleyan students accepted into the prepares students to analyze economic data. Weatherhead School will receive a issues, explore theories, and predict OWU is also partnering with Case $10,000 scholarship for their MSM in future conditions using statistical Western Reserve University in Cleveland Finance program, a STEM degree, and procedures and mathematical models. to create an early admission pathway have the potential to receive additional Potential careers for quantitative for OWU students seeking to earn a merit scholarships.

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New public art enlivens Ohio Wesleyan campus

Gears and Wrenches Bike Rack, created by Jonathan Quick (seen in the photo installing the piece), part-time associate professor of fine arts, is the first piece of art supported by a new endowment to place public art across the OWU campus. Lorry Haycock Luikart ’73 and her husband, Jack Luikart ’71, created The Ebb and Teena Haycock Public Art Endowment to honor the memory of Lorry’s parents. Her father was a longtime art professor, and her mother worked in OWU’s Department of Speech and Theatre. Lorry says, “As more public art emerges on campus, the environment will be enriched, igniting imagination and encouraging thought and discourse.”

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Committee sets goal to expand Greek life at Ohio Wesleyan

A new team of students and administrators is charting a path to dramatically increase Greek life participation at OWU. Vice President of Student Success and Engagement Dwayne Todd is chairing the Fraternity and Sorority Life Strategic Planning Committee, and he says their goal is to reach 40 percent affiliation in the next four years. “There was a day here when 70, 80, or even 90 percent of OWU students were Greek,” Todd says. The Fraternity and Sorority Life Strategic Planning Committee is a mix of administrators, staff, and students: from left, Peyton Larkin, Anna Davies ’19, Sinclaire Davis, Katie Weber, Allie Hausfeld, Hope Poolos, Dwayne “Right now, we’re at 28 Todd, Nancy Bihl Rutkowski, and Brad Pulcini. percent. Our decline in interest is really similar has absolutely brought me closer to my than the overall average GPA at OWU. to what other campuses have seen family.” Larkin says, “Part of the reason I nationwide.” In the spring of 2019, an outside joined a fraternity, and part of the Todd says participation in Greek group conducted a review of Greek life reason a lot of people join a fraternity, life leads to higher retention rates and at OWU, producing a detailed report is to hold themselves to a higher increased campus involvement among on what is working well and what can standard.” His FIJI chapter has earned students and alumni, and he understands be improved. The strategic planning national awards for its academic personally how powerful a fraternity or committee was formed to evaluate excellence. sorority experience can be for a student. the suggestions and develop plans to The committee also hopes to expand “When I think back on college, it’s increase Greek participation. the inclusion of National Pan-Hellenic my fraternity brothers (Pi Kappa Phi) The group will disband at the Council chapters, historically black that I remember the most,” he says. “I end of this academic year, with the organizations. Currently, two OWU want every student to have that rich Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic students are members of these groups, experience if they’re seeking it.” Council then implementing the plans. and in November they visited a local Students serving on the committee Larkin says a big challenge in the chapter to learn how to promote and also treasure their Greek experience. Greek system is overcoming a lack of run a chapter at OWU. “I went to an all-girls high school, unity. “I want to bridge the gap between Before joining the strategic planning so I wanted to have that feeling of different chapters and try to create an committee, Poolos says she had sisterhood again,” says Hope Poolos ’20 environment where we can all come doubted the administration’s support (Delta Gamma). “I wanted to be with together and enjoy being fraternity men for Greek life. “Now I realize how much a group of women who I knew would as opposed to just members of each they care about Greek life.” support me through everything.” individual chapter.” Todd says, “We are 100 percent For Peyton Larkin ’22 (Phi Gamma The committee also is tackling behind having a very solid fraternity and Delta), joining a fraternity means more the stigma of Greek life. “Greek life sorority life program at Ohio Wesleyan. than just connecting with his peers. “I’m is different here, because we do put We want it to grow, and we’re putting a fourth generation FIJI,” he says. “My school first,” says Poolos. The average resources, time, and attention into grandfather was a FIJI here. Being a FIJI GPA of students in Greek life is higher making that happen.”

SPRING 2020 | 7 bishopbattles Coaches honored for season and career Jay Martin Men’s soccer coach Jay Martin was a total of 68 who have inducted into the United Soccer been inducted into Coaches Hall of Fame during the hall since it was ceremonies in January at the United established in 1991. Soccer Coaches convention in Martin is the Baltimore. winningest coach in “I’m very honored,” Martin says. “I’ve NCAA men’s soccer been very fortunate to have been the history, finishing the 2019 recipient of a number of awards over season with 723 wins. His the years, but this one is particularly list of achievements is extraordinary. meaningful. To be recognized by your peers as one of the best coaches in the • He has guided his 43 country means an awful lot.” Battling Bishop soccer Doug Zipp, director of athletics, teams to a 723-150-74 agrees. “Being inducted into the record. United Soccer Coaches Hall of Fame • His career winning is an extraordinary accomplishment. It percentage of .805 honors Jay’s longevity as an influencer entering the 2019 in soccer, his success as a coach on the season ranked 11th all-time in the • His teams have reached the NCAA field, and the impact he’s had on the NCAA. Division III semifinals 9 times, lives of hundreds of student-athletes. • Martin’s teams have compiled a finishing as national runner-up twice, Plus, he’s a pretty darn good coach 283-29-22 record in conference play, and have finished among the final 16 who has been able to adjust and adapt a winning percentage of .880, and teams a total of 29 times. to the ever-changing student-athlete have won 26 conference crowns. • A 16-time Regional Coach of the and the sport of soccer.” • Martin guided Ohio Wesleyan to Year, Martin also was named Division Martin is one of three inductees NCAA Division III national III Coach of the Year in 1991, 1998, honored this year, the latest among championships in 1998 and 2011. and 2011. Brenda Semit This fall, the OWU field hockey team With such success, head coach Ohio Wesleyan finished the season won its first league championship since Brenda Semit was named NCAC Coach with a 13-4 record. The Bishops shared 1995—and won more games than it of the Year for the first time. The coach the NCAC championship with a 7-1 mark has won in any season since 1995. of the year is chosen by a vote of all and advanced to the NCAC tournament the field hockey coaches for the first time since 2012. in the conference. Semit marked her fifth season at “We are very proud OWU in 2019, and her teams have of Brenda being named improved during each of the past three NCAC field hockey coach seasons, with the 2018 team topping of the year,” says Doug the .500 mark at 10-7. Zipp, director of athletics. Semit came to OWU after spending “This recognition is a three seasons as an assistant coach at reflection of all the hard Kenyon College, where she helped the work by the players and team improve each season and compile coaching staff, and it a 40-20 overall record. shows the appreciation coaches across the You can support OWU Athletics NCAC have for her with your gift to Team OWU. accomplishments.” Give at owu.edu/teamowu. Photos by Paul Vernon

8 | OWU classacts Messy learning Merkel takes Russian lit outside the box and inside the supply closet hen some people see a tiny, neglected supply closet near their office, they might use it to store a vacuum. For Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Stephanie Merkel, it was ground zero for learning innovation. Now, thanks to Merkel and colleagues, the former Sturges Hall supply closet is a mini digital humanities lab, complete with a wall-mounted monitor, Ikea furniture, and a high- tech name: the Lit Hatch. This type of project is what Stephanie Merkel is Photo by Paul Vernon all about—hands-on innovation and constant learning. Stephanie Merkel, the Rebecca R. Brown Professor of Humanities, at the grand opening of the Lit An OWU professor for 22 years and Hatch. expert in Russian literature, Merkel likes century nobles tamper-proofed their Her hands-on projects serve to think beyond the traditional essay correspondences with a series of holes another purpose: to help students gain assignment. The Lit Hatch, and the and cut corners. confidence in their ability to create and opportunity it provides students to use Merkel believes that learning is a think. This confidence is something that digital storytelling software like Scalar messy process, one that demands we will help them in any career. For Merkel, and Twine, is just the latest chapter in try new things. it’s all about “the ways we can take the a thick volume of innovations Merkel “One of the things I learned along things we are doing and express the has used to engross students in the the way is that mess is good,” she knowledge in different ways.” literature and create projects that says, explaining that when she and her Collaboration, innovative thinking, stretch their creativity and expand students end class with more questions and especially storytelling, Merkel their skills. than they started with, it means they’re says, are necessary for success in many In one course, Merkel’s students studied 18th-century “it” narratives—a on the right track. careers. Whether you are a research widely popular genre of stories narrated For Merkel, the messy process of scientist or an ad executive, “you can’t by material objects—through the lens function at all as a human being if you of textiles. The final exam took the cannot tell a story.” form of a fashion show, with students “I love the saying, Most employers understand that creating handmade clothing items, literature students can write and read composed of craft paper and pages of ‘When one teaches, well, but Merkel hopes her students text. A student-made black coat and show them they can think well, too, “as corset still decorate her office. two learn.’ ” logically as those in the sciences and as In another course, to help students creatively as those in fine arts.” explore relationships and connections learning is also collaborative, and she Looking at the Lit Hatch, she adds, “I between Russian noblewomen, Merkel learns alongside her students. like to do things where students can say approached letter writing as a literary “I love the saying, ‘When one to a future employer, ‘I did this project. genre. After delving deep into words teaches, two learn.’ I always try to teach Would you like to see this interactive from Catherine the Great’s inner circle, from a place where I’m learning still,” game I made?’” students met for dinner with their final she says. “I’m the guide, but we’re all on papers “letter locked,” a way 18th- the trip together.” —Natalie Kopp

SPRING 2020 | 9 comfortzones Sinclaire Davis ’20: Jay Martin Soccer Complex

Sinclaire Davis ’20 can be found all over the OWU campus—talking with students as an RA in Hayes Hall, working in a chemistry lab, hanging with her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters, or prepping in the women’s soccer room, her campus comfort zone. Sinclaire, from Knoxville, Tennessee, is uber-involved across campus and has received an array of honors and awards during her four years at OWU.

1 #00 forever places ranging from Las Vegas on 8 Socks and sandals (sometimes) Playing goalkeeper all four years, vacation to the Cayman Islands Sinclaire says she’s matured Sinclaire grew attached to her for soccer. “He doesn’t have a during her time at OWU in that jersey number. So much so, she passport, though. He probably she no longer wears her Chaco took her number plaque from should.” sandals 24/7, as she did her first the locker room when she was year, when she “was known as given the opportunity after her 5 A constant reminder the Chaco girl.” She now realizes last practice. “To me, double A gift to Sinclaire, her gold that socks and sandals just aren’t zero—that was my number, it prayer necklace stays around functional during Ohio winter never made any sense for me to her neck as a reminder to months. change.” “control the controllable, relax, everything will fall into place as 9 Mom knows best 2 Captain Davis long as you’re doing your part.” This canvas painted by her mom Her teammates value Sinclaire’s serves as a daily reminder about leadership. On the day that 6 Family tradition how to start each day. Sinclaire she was named team captain, Women in Sinclaire’s family says her mom instilled the belief Sinclaire tore her ACL, her historically have been members that you should “take whatever it second ACL injury in two years. of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. is that you have and be grateful “Having the armband reminded Her paddle was a gift from her for it,” which Sinclaire strives to me that even though I had the aunt, an AKA member, and is do every day. injury, I was still a part of the decorated with colors symbolic team.” to the sorority. 10 Strong as can be After making this canvas at 3 A Golden RA 7 Chemistry found, biochemistry a team event her first year, Sinclaire won the Returning declared Sinclaire kept it in her locker to Resident Assistant of the Year/ Sinclaire credits a class she took remind her to stay both mentally Moderator of the Year award for by chance her first year for and physically strong. The stars her support of other RAs. redirecting her academic path at the top represent her goal of from genetics to biochemistry. the team earning a third national 4 Meet Drizzy, the travel A lecture from Professor of title. Though it didn’t happen companion Chemistry Dan Vogt sparked during her playing years, Sinclaire Sinclaire’s favorite travel her imagination, and soon trusts it will happen soon. companion has been everywhere thereafter she declared her new with her since her senior year major of biochemistry, alongside —Christina Semeraro of high school. He’s traveled to microbiology.

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Photo by Paul Vernon SPRING 2020 | 11 alumniprofile Serving Kenya’s first lady means changing lives

Kenyatta hosts and runs at her Beyond Zero Half Marathon in Nairobi. “The first lady of Kenya is the only first lady in the world who has run the London Marathon,” Ngugi says. Months ago, Ngugi began training alongside Kenyatta for the fifth edition of the marathon, held on March 8. Although she didn’t expect marathon training to be part of her career, Ngugi always intended to have a career in public service. As an international and global studies major at Ohio Wesleyan, she thought her future s director of communications anchor activity of Beyond Zero. career would focus on diplomacy and and head of press for Her “The safaris offer free medical international relations. Excellency Margaret Kenyatta, services to marginalized and vulnerable “I think being exposed to the first lady of Kenya, Vivianne Ngugi ’85 communities around the country,” multicultural living and learning gives never has a typical day. Ngugi might find Ngugi explains. “This event coincided anyone an edge,” she says of her time herself planning an event, writing impact with the global elimination of cervical at OWU. stories for the media, or even training for cancer month and saw thousands After graduating, Ngugi completed a marathon. But it’s the chance to change of women and girls get screened for foreign service diplomat training, lives that she loves most. prevention and early testing of cervical still intending to pursue a career in Her position allows Ngugi to work cancer, which is the leading cause of international relations. “But somehow I closely on Kenyatta’s Beyond Zero cancer-related deaths among women ended up working in communications, initiative, which is guided by the in Kenya.” which I think is an essential skillset for fundamental belief that no woman will Ngugi was recently recognized for any career,” she says. die while giving birth. her exemplary public service when she After a variety of public and private “The first lady’s Beyond Zero initiative received the Kenyan presidential award sector jobs, Ngugi served as the head of is about improving the health and well- Moran of the Order of the Burning communications for the regional office being of mothers and children,” Ngugi Spear. of Canada’s International Development explains. The initiative is addressing issues Her work requires her to be nimble Research Centre. such as reproductive health, maternal and expect the unexpected. “It was a really interesting job that and child mortality, noncommunicable “My job requires a mixed set of brought me full circle back into public diseases, early child marriage, and female competencies, professionalism, service. The different professional roles genital mutilation. maturity, as well as many doses of for me became the building blocks that In January 2020, Ngugi planned and humility,” she says. “This even includes I apply in my current job.” implemented the fifth edition of the training for marathons!” Each year on Beyond Medical Safari, which is the International Women’s Day, First Lady —Ericka Kurtz

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2020 timescapesPhoto by Paul Vernon Mock Conventions prove OWU students are ahead of the times An OWU tradition dating back to 1884, Mock Convention remains a momentous campus event. This year Gray Chapel again filled with students, along with faculty, staff, and several alumni, to debate the issues, amend the party platform, and nominate candidates for president and vice president. In 1988 (top), despite support for native son Howard Metzenbaum, OWU for the first time nominated an African American, Jesse Jackson, for president. This year the students again made history, nominating an all-female ticket, Elizabeth Warren for president and Stacey Abrams for vice president. OWU’s Mock Convention always represents the political party not currently in the White House, so the 2016 event was a Republican convention and this year’s was a Democratic convention. Pictured, Dylan Hays ’20 submits the signatures to nominate Warren while (from left) Alexis Greene ’21, Makaila Weir ’21, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Brianna Mack, and Fatima Iqbal ’21 look on.

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The decade of the 2010s was historic for Ohio Wesleyan, with new programs, amazing building makeovers, and incredible achievements from students, faculty, and coaches. Here’s a list of the top 10 accomplishments based on an informal survey by OWU Magazine. Do you agree? Let us know.

14 | OWU After more than 30 years, The Connect Today, Create Merrick Hall reopens Tomorrow campaign as the home of The surpasses its original goal OWU Connection more than a year ahead (2015). During the of schedule (2019), and decade, OWU awards more than $200 million $2.3 million in grants in contributions begin to to support OWU transform the campus and Connection experiences enrich student experiences. in more than 60 countries.

Bachelor of Science Men’s soccer wins the degrees are introduced national championship, along with new and Jay Martin majors in business simultaneously administration, becomes the communication, winningest coach in data analytics, NCAA men’s soccer neuroscience, special history (2011). education, and more.

OWU’s oldest (Tie) Cirrus Robinson residential ’20 wins her fourth building, national high jump Stuyvesant Hall, championship (2019) reopens after and Nate Axelrod ’18 a $14 million earns Jostens Trophy restoration (2012). as nation’s most outstanding NCAA DIII men’s basketball player (2018).

Meek Aquatics and Recreation Center The Delaware Entrepreneurial opens (2010), Center opens on campus OWU’s first LEED- (2018), a first-of-its-kind certified green business incubator and building. education center at a private liberal arts college.

I-Cubed mini lecture series begins (2015) – and Ohio Wesleyan Mary Anne Lewis Cusato’s celebrates 175 “Chuck Norris in Algeria” years (2017). lecture surpasses 100,000 YouTube views.

SPRING 2020 | 15 A politics and government graduate from the Class of 1999, Chris Sayer opened 16 | OWU Brewery Legitimus in New Hartford, Conn., in 2016. The joys and challenges of running a brewery, creating a tasty wine, and delivering spirits By Kathy Lynn Gray

my Prosenjak ’94 never learned there’s much to love—and little He’s grown to appreciate the benefits Cimaginedheers she’d leave the to hate—about the alcoholic beverage of a company founded and owned! by Midwest to become the CEO industry. family, as many are in the industry. of an Oregon winery. The “It’s a unique combination of art and “I didn’t think about this when I OWU accounting major had science,” says Roger Nabedian ’85, senior joined the company, but once you’re worked 14 years for two very traditional vice president and general manager of there and you interact with the more Ohio companies—The Limited and E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, Calif. senior level staff, you realize that the Value City Furniture—and had grown up “There’s an art to creating wine, but it’s purpose and values of the company are in Youngstown, Ohio. also a scientific endeavor. At its core, likely to remain consistent,” he says. Owen Ridings ’06 had a similarly wine is a consumer product, and that “That gave me the confidence that I unexpected experience. He had toiled makes the business very complex. And I knew what was likely to happen in the for the forest service in the West and like the complexity.” company, and I was motivated to work marketed automobiles in Detroit before Nabedian’s been with Gallo since 1986, hard because of that.” realizing that wine was his calling. just a year after he graduated from OWU Bennett Thompson ’12 also But as craft breweries sprang up with a chemistry degree and a yen for majored in chemistry at OWU, but he’s like weeds, wine-tasting tours became a job that wasn’t staid and predictable. used his degree in a more direct way: popular getaways, and whisky sours and Today he manages Gallo’s $1.2 billion He’s a quality manager for Half Acre martinis had a resurgence, Prosenjak, premium wine division and is part of the Beer Co., in Chicago, where he tests the Ridings, and other OWU graduates leadership of the family-owned company. brewery’s beer at various points in its

SPRING 2020 | 17 We’re farmers, and all of these vineyards have to deal with the climate.” “ —Amy Prosenjak

production to make sure it’s a consistent product. “Beer and beer science are really understudied,” says Thompson, who also has a master’s in chemistry from Yale University. “We’re just beginning to learn what causes different flavors and how to really wrangle with what beer is. That’s pretty cool, and I like to be able to sink my teeth into that.” Chris Sayer ’99 considers his leap into owning his own brewery in New Hartford, Conn., “a chance to put my artistry into a glass for you to enjoy.” He and his wife, Christina, opened Brewery Legitimus in 2016 in a former Waring factory on Rt. 44 after three years of planning. Besides brewing craft beers such as an IPA called Dr. Strangehaze, they run a taproom that Sayer likens to an old-time pub in England or Scotland. “I love what I do,” says Sayer, who majored in politics and government and international studies at OWU. “If you love what you do and can balance those things in your life, that’s success. Most people never discover what they’re passionate about, and I feel fortunate that I found that.” Devaraj Southworth ’94 also comes to the field with an entrepreneur’s passion but a different bent: enabling home delivery of spirits within an hour or two. A myriad of federal, state, and local laws make such deliveries complex. Spirits can’t be sold directly from a manufacturer to a consumer; they must go through a distributor and a retailer. “It’s a tough industry and extremely challenging,” says Southworth, who started his business six years ago with fellow OWU alumnus Maxim Razmakhin ’10. “Part of my joy is

18 | OWU Photo by John Valls “There’s an art to

“creating wine, but

it’s also a scientific

endeavor.”

—Roger Nabedian

taking the time to see how we can work ballooned to 400,000 cases a year, “But we can adjust to the climate to make this industry more efficient. sold in all 50 states and exported we’ll be in,” he says. “If all technology Consumers in this day and age want to internationally. went away, we could still produce make purchases for everything on their According to Nabedian, drinking wine, and still produce great wine. mobile devices.” wine came of age in the United States You’re at the mercy of Mother Nature, The business has evolved from one with baby boomers in the 1980s and so you make adjustments and have that facilitates home deliveries to a 1990s. contingency plans.” company that now provides marketing “Forty or fifty years ago, the United Prosenjak also worries about a and data for manufacturers so they can States was a whisky-drinking culture,” dwindling supply of skilled labor, know their customers better, Southworth he says. Household penetration for which she says is caused by the says. He’s banking that will increase the wine has grown significantly, from government’s squeeze on immigration percentage of liquor sold online, now at 20 to about 40 percent, and the trick and the growing cannabis market. less than 1 percent, to a figure closer to now, he says, will be to make wine an “It’s the same labor pool we’re the general online purchase percentage of everyday part of meals. drawing from at the same time of 13 to 14 percent. “It’s a huge opportunity, but also a the year,” she says. “When grapes or While government regulations for major challenge.” anything are ready to harvest, you wine and beer sales aren’t as stringent as Exacerbating that challenge is have to harvest them, and pruning for spirits, the businesses have plenty of climate change, says Prosenjak. and harvesting in a vineyard is really unique challenges. “We’re farmers, and all of these skilled labor.” “It’s highly competitive,” says vineyard owners have to deal with the In the craft brewery industry, Prosenjak, who has worked for A to Z climate.” That has included a six-week competition may be the biggest Wineworks in Newberg, Ore., for 13 swing in harvesting grapes because of challenge, according to Sayer. years. “It’s difficult as a business to get climate change, she says. “We constantly have new attention, so we’ve invested in marketing, Ridings, a wine sales specialist at competitors,” he says. “Some later buildings, and salespeople.” Chateau Potelle winery in California’s entrants think owning a brewery is a That’s meant steady growth. Prosenjak Napa Valley, believes climate change license to print money and it’s easy. notes that A to Z produced 80,000 cases will affect wineries more than But we work 80 to 100 hours a week.” of wine a year when she started; that’s anything else in the coming years. Others “have an obsession with

SPRING 2020 | 19 We’re just beginning

“to learn what causes

different flavors and

how to really wrangle

with what beer is.

That’s pretty cool.” Photo by Brian McConkey Photography ’88

always making something new instead they’re brewing. Candy and cake batter —Bennett Thompson of just perfecting what they’ve already flavors are just a few of the flavors brewers created,” Sayer adds. “Staying relevant are trying. and making beer your customers want “For some people, that’s exactly their is important. There’s going to be a style.” n correction in the market eventually, and those that fall through will be those that haven’t connected with their customers and haven’t developed a culture to go along with their brand.” Thompson, of Half Acre Beer, also anticipates fewer craft brewers as some consolidate or run out of capital. That may come about, in part, as brewery workers demand better pay. “Breweries tend to run lean, and wages are depressed,” he says. “I’m well taken care of, but some breweries with a national status have taken advantage of the fact that it’s a cool job. So for a lot of people that means hopping from one brewer to another. It’s definitely something we need to collectively wake up to.” The best breweries, he says, have a strong commitment to consistency and Devaraj Southworth (left) and Maxim Razmakhin graduated from OWU 16 years apart and now have joined quality no matter what type of beer forces to launch Thirstie, a technology company and e-commerce platform for the alcohol industry.

20 | OWU how to choose a good beer or glass of wine By Kathy Lynn Gray

ven wine and beer experts are a bit flummoxed when asked how to help a novice find a beer or wine they’ll love. “Wine is extremely confusing,” says Roger Nabedian of E&J Gallo Winery. But once you discover one that you like, he suggests asking a wine salesperson or restaurant wine specialist which wines have similar characteristics and trying those. For those who don’t know an acid taste from a tannic one, wine sales specialist Owen Ridings uses other preferences to help his clients at Chateau Potelle winery in California’s Napa Valley. Do you eat grapefruit with your breakfast? Then you might like a Pinot Grigio or a German Riesling. Do you add cream and sugar to your coffee? That probably means you’d prefer a “rounder, softer, fruit-forward wine,” like a Zinfandel, he says. A to Z Wineworks CEO Amy Prosenjak says the only way to please yourself with wine is to try several varieties at a local wine shop, articulate what you really like or dislike about each, and then determine your personal preference. “You really have to educate yourself,” she says. “It’s difficult.” As for finding a beer you enjoy, most are either ales or lagers. Most ales are bitter, while lagers vary in their bitterness. Beers with a lot of hops are more bitter—or more flavorful, in some minds, says chemist and beer quality manager Bennett Thompson. If you like spicy food, Explaining what you like to eat to a brewer is one way to begin identifying which beers you might prefer, says Chris Sayer, founder of Brewery Legitimus. I might steer you to a “If you like spicy food, I might steer you to a lager or an IPA,” he says. “For someone who likes beef, I steer them towards an lager or an IPA. Abbey Dubbel” (a dark Belgian-style beer). Thompson says so many styles of beer exist today that there’s something for everyone. —Chris Sayer “If you like beers of one style, you might like others in the same style,” he says. “If you like an IPA, try another IPA.” n

SPRING 2020 | 21 OWU alumni mastering the science, art and economics of

Oregon winery, Prosenjak sent in her resume on Roger Nabedian ’85 a whim. Throughout his college years, Nabedian “The next day the owner called and asked me worked in a grocery store. So perhaps it wasn’t if I understood cost accounting,” she says. “He surprising that his first real job out of college said he could teach me wine, but he couldn’t find was within that realm. anyone who understood cost accounting.” Nabedian signed on with E&J Gallo Winery, That was 13 years ago. Prosenjak’s been in working as a salesperson in New Hampshire the top management at A to Z Wineworks in selling wine to grocery and liquor stores. Newberg, Ore., since then. She’s now the chief “I understood that environment quite well,” executive officer, overseeing a company making he says. 400,000 cases of wine a year and selling it in all He filled a variety of roles at the company 50 states. after that, including director of college “Wine is all about cost accounting,” she says. recruiting, director of recruiting and field “It’s a really interesting and fun business, much marketing in Europe, vice president of new sexier than furniture. Sometimes I get a call: ‘Can product development, and vice president of you come taste this new wine?’ And I say, ‘Sure, operations. I’ll be right down.’” “I’ve been very fortunate,” he says. “I love Prosenjak will be back on the OWU campus leading and managing a team.” this fall for the third biennial Women of Ohio In 2007 he became senior vice president Wesleyan (WOW) women’s leadership forum, and general manager at Gallo’s headquarters in Nov. 6–7. She’s on the steering committee for Modesto, Calif., the job he currently holds. the event, which will feature opportunities for “I started at the bottom and worked my way alumnae to connect, develop their professional up,” he says. “It was a great foundation because network, and discuss shared experiences (see you really see how consumers interact with registration information on page 27). brands, and you have to learn how to influence people, to create needs and wants in your buyers. A lot of our people start there even to Devaraj Southworth ’94 this day.” As a digital sales manager at Deloitte, Southworth watched as many of his colleagues left to become entrepreneurs. So he took the plunge, too, Amy Prosenjak ’94 building a successful advertising tech business, After working on the business side of The IThink Labs, before returning to a corporate job as Limited and Value City Furniture in Ohio, a vice president at American Express. Prosenjak was up for an adventure. Two years later, he felt the pull of “I was getting that itch: Are we going to live entrepreneurship once again and cofounded in Ohio our whole lives?” she thought. She and Thirstie, a technology company and e-commerce her husband, Steven Guy, had traded in their platform for the alcohol industry. beer kegger for a wine collection, and when First, the company offered online alcohol sales Guy found a job opportunity for his wife at an and delivery directly to consumers. Next, it added

22 | OWU data services, gathering information about moving to his current position. customers for large manufacturers and, more “There isn’t anything I hate about the recently, smaller, independent brands. job,” he says. “It’s definitely one of the best “It’s the final frontier in e-commerce,” jobs I’ve ever had.” says Southworth. “We are changing an industry forever and it needs to be done in a calculated way, and you have to build Bennett Thompson ’12 credibility. You have to approach it as a long- Thompson’s plan after graduation was to term journey.” get his Ph.D. in chemistry and become an academic. “I had no goal to ever leave for an Chris Sayer ’99 applied science career, and beer was not Sayer’s love affair with beer began during a close to my goals,” he says. semester abroad in Brussels during his junior But facing a tight job market for year at OWU. To learn French, he worked at chemistry professors, he quit his Ph.D. a tiny neighborhood bar washing glasses one program after getting his master’s and night and drinking beers the next. started thinking about pursuing food “I’d never had a beer in my life before science. The brewing industry caught that,” he says. But beyond expanding his his attention and he tried it, working at taste buds, Sayer learned the importance of knowing your customers, and that’s a lesson a Connecticut brewery for three months he’s carried through to his own enterprise, without pay. That led to a paid job in Brewery Legitimus in New Hartford, Conn. the lab of another brewery and then his current job as quality manager at Half Acre His taproom doesn’t use a dishwasher— For Chris Sayer at Brewery Legitimus the business is all Beer Co. in Chicago. the staff washes all the glasses by hand as about hands-on tradition and building community with “Being able to apply my science they talk with customers. customers. “Washing dishes and talking to people education directly is exciting,” he says. “I while we’re working, as weird as that feel like it’s full of endless opportunities to sounds, it’s a chance to hang out and talk. continuously learn about something that We learn what customers like and don’t like. humans created to enjoy and something I think interaction with people is the most that’s really interesting.” n important thing in this industry. We want you to be comfortable and we want to create —Kathy Lynn Gray Bennett Thompson relies on his chemistry background a community.” to help his Chicago brewery create distinctive beers. (Brian McConkey Photography ’88)

Owen Ridings ’06 What do you do with a philosophy degree? Ridings likes to joke that he philosophizes while he drinks and pours wine in his job as a wine sales specialist at Chateau Potelle winery in California’s Napa Valley. “I say that in jest, but because I’m in a sales position I do use my major to figure out how I can best make connections with people,” says Ridings. “I love that I get to educate people about the enjoyment of wine, the cultural aspects around it. I get to tell them the story of where the grapes come from and the soil they come from.” Ridings learned about wine “the old school way.” He apprenticed with a wine maker for six years, then worked as a wine director at a Japanese restaurant before managing a wine tasting room and then

SPRING 2020 | 23 In December more than 2019 Holiday Parties 650 alumni, parents, and owu.edu/alumni | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram friends gathered to share in the seasonal cheer at 11 OWU holiday parties from Boston to Los Angeles. Watch for dates for 2020 holiday events coming this July.

In the photos people are named from left to right unless otherwise noted. New York: Craig Luke ’85, Hillary Panas Pember ’85, Kent Miller ’85, and Andrew Morrison ’85. Atlanta: Nancy Wortmann ’65, Kate Duello Roca ’01, Randy Wortmann ’64

Washington, D.C.: Alex Lothstein ’15, Taylor Heasley ’16, Nick Calio ’75, Tom Grissom ’62, Katie Nunner ’16, and Ellie Magner ’15.

Columbus: Sean Harris ’97, Zibbi Palmer Wentz ’99, Wendy McCall Johnson ’74, Anthony Peddle ’14, Katie Webster, director of alumni engagement, Denise Brenner ’00, Joni Manos Brown ’78, Mark Shipps ’70, Ginny O’Grady Shipps ’70, Liz Long Downey ’06, and Scott Donaldson ’02.

Boston: Conor Duffey, Megan Doherty ’16, Caroline Bonee ’16, Jennifer Luckett ’16, and Alison Kennedy ’10.

Columbus: Jenny Brodie ’04, Samantha Wallace Sharpe ’09, Dan Sharpe ’06, Obinna Moneme ’96, Allison Moneme, and Jonathan Lange.

24 | OWU Philadelphia: Charles Valentine, Deborah McColloch ’77, Debbie Legge-Sloman ’77, and Brian Sloman. San Francisco: Standing: Anne McComas ’12 and Andrea Richards Moore ’82; seated: Lisabeth Raskin ’83 and Martha Bloom Weinstein ’82. San Francisco: Daniel Jackoway, Memme Onwudiwe ’15, and Annie Pappenhagen ’15.

Columbus: Suzanne Sutter Sumner ’75, John Sumner ’74, Leslie MacFarland Sours ’74, Steve Sours ’74, Wendy McCall Johnson ’74, Chris Johnson ’74, and David Roark ’74.

Los Angeles: Gerry Gacek, Janet de Michaelis ’74, Bill More, and Julie Lafond More ’69. Cleveland: Hasani Wheat ’09, Leah Eickhoff, Eric Eickhoff ’00, Marie Rymut Schaefer ’07, and John Schaefer ’05.

Cleveland: Penell Paglialunga ’19, Hayley Los Angeles: Diane Petersen ’66, Caslisse Lindsey P’23, Glessner ’19, and Katie Kuckelheim ’19. Fred Haney ’63, Michele Petersen, and Barbara Breig Haney ’63.

Chicago: Sarah Dailey ’15, Julia Melio ’19, Matt Cohen ’09, President Rock Jones, Matt DiCesare ’16, Jane Suttmeier ’15, and Brian Schaefer ’16. San Francisco: Arvind Thyagarajan ’00, Suhneel Roye ’98, Keith Rozanski ’99, and Jack Luikart ’71.

SPRING 2020 | 25 giftsandgratitude Palmers’ $2 million gift solidifies Global Scholars Program

During a celebration at the Ross Art Museum, Rock Jones leads a toast to Tom and Susan Palmer (left) on the creation of The Thomas W. Palmer ’69 and Susan Palmer Global Scholars Program. Joining in the toast are Global Scholars Program faculty (from left) Mary Anne Lewis Cusato, Jeremy Baskes, and Nathan Amador Rowley. (Photo by Paul Vernon)

hio Wesleyan Trustee Tom to take four semesters of foreign dynamic in affording distinctive learning Palmer ’69 and his wife, Susan, language. Students who successfully opportunities.” have created a $2 million complete the Global Scholars Program OWU President Rock Jones notes, endowment for the OWU Global graduate with a Global Studies Institute “As the world becomes increasingly Scholars Program, which will provide certificate noted on their transcript. interconnected, Ohio Wesleyan wants international opportunities for students “Susan and Tom Palmer’s incredibly to ensure that our graduates are for years to come. generous endowment ensures that prepared to be active and engaged The program was created three years the Global Scholars Program will exist global citizens and leaders. Tom and ago through a short-term grant as part to benefit future generations of Ohio Susan’s support helps us to achieve this of OWU’s Global Studies Institute. The Wesleyan students, many of whom important mission. We look forward institute brings together faculty and would not be able to study abroad if it to witnessing the positive impact the students from the natural sciences, were not for the associated stipends,” Palmer Global Scholars have on the social sciences, humanities, and fine says Jeremy Baskes, program director world.” arts to explore issues from all academic and professor of history. “Ohio A current at-large member of the disciplines and work toward real- Wesleyan, and specifically the Global OWU Board of Trustees, Tom Palmer world solutions. Each fall, a dozen or Scholars Program, is exceedingly lucky has practiced law for more than 45 years more incoming students are invited to to have such committed and caring with Marshall & Melhorn, LLC, in Toledo, become Global Scholars in recognition benefactors.” Ohio. At Ohio Wesleyan, he majored in of their passion for international “We welcome this opportunity to economics and was a member of the issues and potential for high academic support the initiative and creativity Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Susan Palmer achievement. of faculty and students engaged in is a former educator and development As juniors or seniors, Global Scholars the Global Scholars Program,” said the director for the Toledo Museum of Art, receive a $4,000 university grant to Palmers in announcing the gift. “This where she still serves on the Board of pursue an approved international program not only enables experiences Trustees. research or study project of their of global connection for those directly The gift is part of OWU’s Connect choice. As seniors, they also complete involved but also for others in sharing Today, Create Tomorrow comprehensive a faculty-supervised thesis or capstone interaction. In this, OWU continues campaign, which has raised more than project. In addition, they are required to differentiate itself as a university $200 million.

26 | OWU calendar of Palmers’ $2 million gift solidifies Global Scholars Program Senior Sanchez donates all four years events This calendar was prepared before we knew of COVID-19. Since then, Reunion Weekend has been canceled. For the status of other events and to RSVP, visit owu.edu/alumni or call 740-368-3325.

May 15–17 OWU campus Reunion Weekend CANCELED May 30 Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Indians game and pregame gathering with Bob DiBiasio ’77 CANCELED

Alexander Sanchez talks regularly with OWU alumni from his Phonathon station. July 11 Traverse City Country Club Michigan Red & Black Luncheon smile fills the face of Ohio will have at OWU. Sanchez has taken Wesleyan University senior this message to heart as he’s seen the August 8 Cape Cod, Mass. Alexander Sanchez as he talks willingness of alumni to give back to New England Clambake on Cape Cod about his four years of giving back. their alma mater. He says he wanted to Hosted by Rich ‘82 and Kim Alexander Sanchez has donated to the acknowledge all OWU has done for him September 2 University all four years he has attended to make his college experience valuable. Various locations OWU. His appreciation for the impact An international business and Welcome to the City OWU has on him inspired him to ensure French major with minors in women’s October 2–4 a continuous impact on current and and gender studies and politics and OWU campus Homecoming & Family Weekend future students. government, Sanchez credits OWU for From Caguas, Puerto Rico, Sanchez providing him with travel opportunities October 23–25 and professional assistance that has OWU campus was introduced to the importance Sigma Alpha Epsilon Reunion of donating through his position at helped him focus his career path. Phonathon, an OWU program for Strong connections with professors November 6–7 and other students are the most OWU campus University fundraising. Phonathon Women of Ohio Wesleyan (WOW) valuable part of OWU, he says. Info and registration at owu.edu/WOW encourages student workers to highlight the influence that a donation —Christina Semeraro Vote for trustees! Michelle’s career at Kirkland & Ellis LLP has Jerilyn’s career in wellness and health focused on debt financing transactions, care has included managing the health representing private equity groups and and wellness programs at one of the other private and public companies. She largest hospital systems in Indiana. She serves on the boards for Catherine Cook was the founder and president of Health School, City Year Chicago, and the Chicago and Fitness Solutions, which developed Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. At wellness programs for companies across OWU she was a member of the Women’s the Midwest. At OWU, she was a four-year House, participated in Wesleyan in letter winner on the women’s basketball Washington, and was a member of Kappa team and was a member of Delta Gamma. Michelle Kilkenney ’99 Kappa Gamma. She and her husband, Ryan, Jerilyn Bushong She and her husband, Chris, have two live in Chicago with their three children. Mapes ’87 grown children. Read full bios and vote by May 8 at owu.edu/alumni/BOTslate. To nominate an alumnus/a for future consideration, please email: [email protected]. Please include name, class year, and qualifications.

SPRING 2020 | 27 facultynotes

Andrew Busch, assistant professor of Jerry Goldstein, health and human kinetics, coauthored professor emeritus of the article “Performance Differences in botany and microbiology, Division III Female Field Hockey Athletes along with student With Prior Lower Extremity Injuries coauthor Aidan Over a Competitive Season,” The Sport Shumaker ’20, published Journal, January 2020. “Cinnamon Extract and Cinnamaldehyde Inhibit Amy Butcher, assistant professor of the Replication of T2 English, received an Ohio Arts Council Bacteriophage in E. coli: Individual Excellence Award in February Potential for Use in for her upcoming book Mothertrucker. Antiviral and Anticancer Therapy,” in Research & David Caplan, professor of English, Reviews: A Journal of presented a keynote address, “On Biotechnology, 9(3), 8–17. Erasure: Past, Present, and Future,” at an international conference, “New Kellie Hall, director of Poetries—New Poetics? Cultural and the Early Childhood Aesthetic Transformations of American Center, and Katherine Marty Kalb, professor emeritus of fine arts, had one of his Poetry,” at the University of Konstanz in Glenn-Applegate paintings purchased by the Columbus Museum of Art. The Konstanz, Germany. Of his presentation, presented “Nurturing painting, Chagrin Falls Winter (pictured above), is one of a series Caplan says: “I talked about erasure Curious Minds: Asking he made several years ago of waterfalls in Ohio, New York, and poetry, poetry composed by erasing Smart Questions in Vermont. The director of the museum, Nannette Maciejunes, saw words from another text. Sometimes Science and Beyond,” at the painting at an exhibition of Ohio artists at the Ohio Governor’s the texts are literary, other times they the Action for Children Mansion in July 2019. are political or legal. I discussed the Teaching and Learning technique’s development, current uses, Conference on Nov. 2. made two presentations at the National and possibility.” Council for the Social Studies Annual Vanessa Hildebrand, assistant professor Conference in Austin, Texas, in November of sociology-anthropology, published 2019: She presented a book chapter, Michael Flamm, professor of history, the chapter “Ethnography” in the book, “First Amendment Rights and Speech: created a 10-episode series on “How 1954 Research Methods in Health Humanities. Views from Students on News and Social Changed History.” Recorded for Amazon She cowrote the chapter with Eileen Media in Schools,” which appears in At and Audible Originals as part of “The Anderson-Fye. The book was edited by the Schoolhouse Gate: Teacher, Student, Great Courses” series, the audio course Craig Klugman and Erin Gentry Lamb. takes listeners through the battle against and Administrator Perspectives on First polio, the Red Scare that gripped the Sarah Kaka, assistant professor of Amendment Rights in Schools, in press; nation, the domestic impact of foreign education, published five articles and and she presented a session on “Using conflicts, and the groundbreaking case of delivered two presentations. Her articles Ephemera, Monuments, and Museums to Brown v. Board of Education. were: “Shrinking an Already Decreasing Teach Controversial Social Issues.” Pool: Potential Implications of edTPA Sean Kay, professor of politics and Jeffrey Ford, adjunct instructor in English, Implementation,” in the Ohio Journal government, was recognized by the Keep published two books: Out of Body, a 172- of Teacher Education , 33(2), 47–79, Fall Delaware County Beautiful Coalition, page novel from Tor.com/Pan Macmillan; 2019; “Administrators’ Insights into the receiving the group’s Garrison-Brown and The Best of Jeffrey Ford, a short Preparation and Performance of New Award for his volunteer work at the story collection from PS Publishing, U.K., Teachers,” in the Northwest Journal 2019 Northern Olentangy Watershed January 2020. of Teacher Education, 14(2), Fall 2019; Festival, Olentangy River Cleanup, “Classroom Culture in the Social Studies and Scioto River Clean Sweep. Over James Franklin, professor of politics Classroom: The Abilities of Preservice Thanksgiving Kay flew to Dublin, and government, wrote the article Teachers,” in The Councilor: A Journal Ireland, to make a presentation on the “Human Rights on the March: Repression, of the Social Studies, 80(2), Fall 2019; 2020 U.S. presidential election. The Oppression, and Protest in Latin “2018–2019 Ohio Council for the event was sponsored by the Institute America,” which was accepted for Social Studies Annual Survey Results,” of International and European Affairs. publication in International Studies in the Ohio Social Studies Review, Kay also published an article about his Quarterly. 55(2), 4–5, Fall 2019; and “Cooperating journey as an assistant guide through the Teacher Perceptions of Their Preservice Grand Canyon on the Colorado River, Lee Fratantuono, professor and chair of Teachers’ Impact on Student Learning,” “An Old River Guide Learns New Tricks,” classics, published an article on Virgil in in Educational Research: Theory and in Boatman’s Quarterly Journal (Winter the Spanish classics journal Myrtia. Practice, 30(2), 75–90, Fall 2019. She 2019/20), the official journal of the Grand

28 | OWU Canyon River Guides Association. As Adult Men,” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, español: el proyecto pionero de la part of his research related to his newly and Social Networking. Accepted for ciudad perdida de Margarita Alexandre” developed course, Environmental Politics publication: “The Association Between [Claiming Spanish Gynocriminal Cinema: and Policy, he published an article delving Body Surveillance and Body Satisfaction the Pioneer Project of The Lost City into Ireland’s plans to divert the Shannon Moderated by Self-Concept Clarity by Margarita Alexandre] in Papeles River, “Explaining Rainy Ireland’s Water in Adult Women in the United States: del crimen. Mujeres y violencia en la Crisis,” in Irish Central, the largest Irish A Cross Sectional Study,” Journal of ficción criminal [Criminal Roles: Women online magazine in the U.S. In March Women’s Health, Issues and Care, 8, 1-6. and Violence in Crime Fiction], ed. by 2019, Kay was invited to present a paper Lama, Losada, and Resano, University of on “Realism and Transatlantic Security Michele Nobel, assistant professor Barcelona, Spain. She also published the Institutions” at the conference “What of education and director for special article “El impacto de los festivales en la education, presented “Want to Travel the Is a Realist Foreign Policy?” held at cultural cinematográfica” [“The Impact of World With Your Class? You Can With the Mershon Center for International Festivals on Cinematographic Culture”], in Google Tour Builder,” at the Innovations Security Studies at Ohio State University. an online film magazine. in Teaching and Learning Conference, The paper has been accepted for hosted by Franklin University, Oct. 18. publication in Security Studies, one Anne Sokolsky, associate professor of comparative literature, has been working of the world’s top peer-reviewed Robert Olmstead, professor of English, international relations journals. It will was recognized by the Ohioana Library since April 2019 as literature editor for Journal of Japanese Language and appear in the May/June 2020 issue. Association, which selected his novel the Coal Black Horse as one of 90 books Literature. Sokolsky also published a Chris Modica, assistant professor of by Ohio authors chosen to help the book review of Outcasts of Empire: psychology, authored two articles, one association celebrate its 90th anniversary. Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage accepted and one in press. In press: Border,” 1874–1945, by Paul D. Barclay, in “The Associations Between Instagram Eva Paris-Huesca, assistant professor The Journal of Asian Studies. In October, Use, Selfie-Activities, Appearance- of Spanish, published the book chapter she presented a talk, “The World of Comparison, and Body Dissatisfaction in “Reivindicando el cine ginocriminal Travel as Presented in the Japanese Colonial Journal Taiwan Fujinkai, 1934–1939,” at the New York Conference on Asian Studies at SUNY New Paltz. Finally, she received a $3,000 Northeast Asia Council Japan Studies Grant for a project titled “Shigemitsu Mamoru and the Tokyo Trial in Literature, Film, and Personal Letters.” For the project, she will travel to Japan in May 2020 to study archives at the Mamoru Shigemitsu Memorial Museum in Kamakura, Japan, as well as film archives of the Tokyo Trial housed at the NHK library in Tokyo and Japan’s National Diet Library. These activities are financially assisted by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Shari Stone-Mediatore, professor of philosophy, was named managing director of Parole Studies. Illinois, an organization that she cofounded to educate people about over-incarceration in Illinois and the need for fair systems of release for people with long-term sentences. She Chris Wolverton, professor of botany, was awarded $37,000 in funding from Circles of Justice Initiative, Sparkplug Foundation, and coauthored the article “Comparison Crossroads Foundation for staff and operating expenses. She helped direct an auction of of Microgravity Analogs to Spaceflight incarcerated people’s art (pictured above), the distribution of newsletters to 500 incarcerated in Studies of Plant Growth and members, a website (ParoleIllinois.org), the development of open and accountable Development,” which was published in communication practices among incarcerated and non-incarcerated board members, and Frontiers in Plant Science, Dec. 6, 2019. the transition to official 501(c)(3) status. With her incarcerated colleague, Joseph Dole, she Wolverton also presented findings of coauthored a news article about the organization, “Incarcerated Activists Raise the Bar on his NASA spaceflight experiment in the Parole.” Also, she is supervising OWU students Avery Newcom ’23, Scottie Hughes ’21, President’s Symposium of the Annual Athena Vakaleris ’22, and Genesis Canngieter ’20 in various Parole Illinois projects, including Meeting of the American Society of a report on expanded uses of clemency, the tracking of input from incarcerated members, and Gravitational and Space Research in interviews with people with life sentences. Denver, Colorado, Nov. 21.

SPRING 2020 | 29 classnotes Thank you to all who sent in submissions for the Class Notes section. Due to space limitations, we ask that entries be limited to 100 words. To submit Class Notes items, please use the form at www.owu.edu/ classnotes. Deadline for the Fall 2020 issue is May 19. 1940s Dorothy Judd Curtis Brown ’49 and concerts, avoid the long her husband of 60 years, Bill Brown ’48, waiting lines of air travel, Don Denton ’53 organized a round of golf in Westerville, Ohio, to traveled frequently across the U.S. for his and enjoy day trips into commemorate Payne Stewart, a victor of two U.S. Opens and a PGA role as research director and president the North Cascades Championship. While Don had never met the late Stewart, both he and of the Council of State Chambers of mountains. They celebrate the professional golfer were members of Phi Gamma Delta, albeit at Commerce in Washington, D.C. They their first great grandchild different universities. On the 20th anniversary of Stewart’s death, Oct. had two daughters, leading Dorothy being born in September 25, Don and six other Phi Gamma Delta brothers dressed in plus-fours, to become involved with the Girl and their good health. baggy trousers that extend four inches below the knee. “I had thought Scouts for 50 years as troop member, for a long time, it would just be fun to dress up like Payne Stewart and leader, camp director, and more. She Ezra Vogel ’50 was go play some golf,” Don quipped to the Columbus Dispatch. Pictured taught microbiology on two college honored by China Institute from left, Dave Prescott, Dave Tilley, John Gibson, Don Denton, campuses and was a tour leader on the for contributions to Michael Pittroff, Sam Balla, and Gus Domenick celebrate the legacy of environmental importance of the wetlands enhancing China-U.S. Payne Stewart. (Photo by Joe Blundo) in Harpers Ferry National Park. In Estero, relations. Ezra received the annual Blue Cloud Award’s Fla., she was a boardwalk tour guide for Alum Creek” garden railroad through their special Lifetime Achievement Award for 23 years at Six Mile Cypress Slough and backyard. Summertime finds them in their exceptional achievements in contributing coauthored “Seasons of the Slew.” Of their new flower garden, which is visited by a to a friendship and understanding daughters, Darmae is an accomplished variety of birds and wild creatures. organist and library cataloguer, while the between the two countries. Ezra emphasized the importance of a good, late Ann Brown Nutt ’76 was the first Bill Myers ’55 continues to live in Glen informed international relationship, as well director of the Lighthouse Child Care Ellyn, Ill. Long retired from teaching, he as China Institute’s work in “making efforts Development Center in West Virginia. still participates in activities related to to hear real Chinese voices.” architecture and theater in the Chicago area. For the warmer part of the year, he 1950s Jack Hahn ’55 continues to live in his leads boat tours on the Chicago River. Paul Ross ’50 and his wife of 32 years, Albuquerque, N.M., home in the Northeast Susanne, are living at Pacific Regent, a Heights. His wife, Jude, recently retired Larry Spees ’57 found his calling a few high-rise senior community of about 100 from the U.S. Department of Energy years after graduation. He returned to residents, in Bellevue, Wash. While she and now has time to enjoy true home college for teaching certification, earned paints and creates art, Paul does scientific activities. Jack belongs to a small group a master’s degree from the University of writing, and both continue their many- of “Ancient Aviators,” and the two still Wisconsin-Stout, began teaching at the year attendance at Seattle Symphony operate a large-scale “Sulphur Spring and University of Rio Grande, and was awarded Maribeth Amrhein Graham ’55 was recognized with the Women a fellowship at West Virginia University, of Influence award by the YWCA Dayton. As one of only seven where he earned a doctorate. Larry retired women selected from over 130, she was honored as a visionary after 29 years at Rio Grande. He and his leader who has made a difference in the Dayton community while wife have traveled Europe and now winter remaining dedicated to the YMCA goal of empowering women and in Naples, Fla., leaving their home at the including all. Maribeth is credited for helping save many of Dayton’s edge of Westerville, Ohio. After being most revered landmarks, including the Victory Theatre and the on national boards of Alpha Sigma Phi Dayton Arcade. She has served as a member of the Junior League fraternity, he still checks in on the OWU of Dayton and the West Carrollton School Board, life trustee chapter. on OWU’s Board of Trustees, and Founding Trustee of Antioch University Midwest, and her tireless community involvement was Dick Hottel ’58 and Margie Keller a central point of her selection. “Maribeth is the living version Hottel ’60 have four children, eight of the Margaret Mead quote: ‘Never doubt that a small group of grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is Margie has worked in a variety of fields, the only thing that ever has,’” said her nominator. from organizing and teaching their church’s

30 | OWU nursery school program to teaching in English from Cornell University, served Jane Polley Riggin ’60 has filled her days the U.S. Air Force high school in Germany, as editor at the Brookings Institution, with art in Sarasota, Fla., as she attends where Dick was deployed. Margie has been legislative assistant to Sen. Fred Harris (D- the opera and serves on the board of an elementary PTA officer, church deacon OK), executive director of the Democratic directors for the artist series concerts. She and session, pastor search committee National Committee, presidential fondly remembers how full of happiness member, and part of the national capital campaign chief in Pennsylvania for Sen. and joy she and classmates were at OWU, presbytery study group. She is a member George McGovern (D-SD), and chief treasuring those feelings despite the loss of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Dick was of staff to Sen. Howard Metzenbaum of her husband of 47 years. Jane is grateful employed by the U.S. Air Force for five (D-OH). Verrick also was executive vice for those memories and the skills learned years and by Harvey B. Hottel Inc. as president of the National Retail Merchants in the classroom and from the fantastic chairman of the board, retiring in 2018. Association, president of French & people in her life while attending OWU. He also has served as a church officer, Company, a government relations firm, She is a member of Alpha Chi Omega. including being deacon, chairman of and cofounder of the King’s Contrivance several fundraising campaigns, and Discussion Group, composed of OWU Martha Hall ’63 has had poems appear property manager. graduates, from 1958 to 1975. in numerous national journals, such as Bellowing Ark, Las Cruces, Old Red Virginia “Ginny” Van Meter Herrick ’60 Kimono, Tale Spinners, and more. She 1960s lost her husband of 56 years in 2018. In won the 2005 John and Miriam Morris Jan Stillinger Cross ’60 left OWU with 2019 her first grandchild was born. She Chapbook contest for her collection skills and attitudes that served her well, is active in her church and involved in Abandoned Gardens and was a semi- especially in her professional work ethic. coordinating a natural food buying club, finalist in the 2007 Concrete Wolf This ethic carried her just short of her practicing tai chi, working out at the gym, Chapbook contest and the 2010 Kathryn 80th birthday in a career as a university hiking, and supporting a Mexican journalist A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Martha has professor working with hundreds of high seeking asylum. published more than 10 books, one of school student teachers. She lives with which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize her husband, Criss, in Davis, Calif., and Gerald Kerwin ’60 is retired as vice in 2011. She was honored by the New tries to model for their two sons and five president-general manager of WQHS-TV Hampshire Poet Laureate to be one of adolescent grandchildren the hope they in Cleveland. He and his wife, Kay, recently the state’s featured poets. Martha has need for a changing world. celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary been a member of the Manchester, New and enjoy their time with family and Hampshire, Poets Unbound group, the Vick French ’60 and Patricia Ross French friends in Avon Lake, Ohio. He notes how Academy of American Poets, the Poetry ’60 live in Chevy Chase, Md. Their two hard it is to believe it has been 64 years Society of New Hampshire, and the children and two grandchildren live since everyone came to Delaware, and he Monadnock Writers’ Group. She and her nearby. Patricia earned a Ph.D. in English holds many fond memories of classmates identical twin sister, Deb, were Conover literature from the University of Maryland, and teachers. models in New York City. After graduating writing her dissertation on poet Philip from OWU, she attended Columbia Larkin. She taught undergraduates in Roger Lockwood ’60 is living with his University and has been a realtor with English literature at both the University of wife, Sheila, in Norwood, Mass. He has a various real estate firms over the decades. Maryland and Georgetown University, ran blended family of six married children who Martha’s books may be purchased through literary seminars at the women’s prison have produced 13 grandchildren. Roger Barnes & Noble and through various in Jessup, Md., and served as first reader is happily working for his son David as publishers and bookstores. and chairman of the building and grounds franchisee of Taco Bell. He serves on the committee of the Christian Science boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Howard Prestwich ’65 is retired from Church of Chevy Chase. For years she of Boston and League School for autistic the practice of law. Howard and his wife, has been head librarian of the Christian children, where he is chairman. He enjoys Linda, live in Freeport, Ill., but winter in Science Reading Room in Chevy Chase. golf, but not every round. Palm Springs, Calif., to be closer to their After OWU, Vick received an M.A. in

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Elizabeth Long Downey ’06, President Erin Flynn, Faculty Representative Andrea Moore ’82 Keith Rozanski ’99, Vice President Bob Gordon ’88 Ann Muenster-Nuiry ’73 Denise Sabo Brenner ’00, Alumnae Panhellenic Council Representative Candace Griffith ’09 Michael Pattison ’04 Sarah Bruno ’10 Sean Harris ’97 Anthony Peddle ’14 Peter Chase ’74 Kevin Hinkle ’94, Alumni “W” Association Representative Carrie Lippert Reinhardt ’94 Michelle Corbett Coutts ’09 Katherine Jenks ’12 Keith Rozanski ’99 Vicki DiLillo, Faculty Representative Sarah Kieta Kirwen ’06 Andrew Sloan ’13 Scott Donaldson ’02 , Alumni Interfraternity Council Representative Julie MacMillan ’88 Zibbi Palmer Wentz ’99 Betsy Drew Dunn ’78 Justin McCoy ’07 Gordon Witkin ’77

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daughter. He wishes all his classmates of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, David Bernard ’70 retired five years good health and happiness in the years Arts & Letters in Madison, Wis. From ago and sold his practice after 40 years to come and hopes to see many at the late October to December, the exhibit working as a CPA. He and his wife, Linda, reunion. showcased many paintings of Madison. spend time in Boca Grande, Fla., during the Bauer says he is drawn to natural and winter, generally taking one or two trips Timmen Cermak ’67 releases his book domestic themes in his subjects, but he each year, and devoting the rest of their on the science of marijuana, From Bud to employs a nostalgic and tranquil approach. year to Gloucester, Mass., where he enjoys Brain: A Psychiatrist’s View of Marijuana, He majored in fine arts while at OWU. golf and fishing. Their three children have through Cambridge University Press, given them eight grandchildren, something this spring. He has practiced addiction he says they are lucky to have. medicine for 40 years and was the 1970s The Rev. Catherine Savage Adler ’70 president of the California Society of Richard Bourquard ’70 earned his lives in Portland, Ore., and has served Addiction Medicine. Timmen also chaired M.S. in geophysics and worked for multiple United Church of Christ (UCC) the Youth Work Group of California’s Texaco, becoming manager of advanced churches as pastor. She also saw clients Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana exploration programming. He later as a licensed clinical social worker within and currently serves on two state founded an investment management school systems and private practice before company. He lives in Denver, Colo., and retiring. She has three children, Ben, works as CFO of a privately held startup. Sarah, and David, and four grandchildren. Rich was also a snowboarding instructor Operation Crossroads Africa led her to for 10 years at Winter Park. Off-time, he raise funds for Somalia and Ethiopia in the snowboards, composes music (Richsmusic. 1980s and ’90s. As a member of the UCC com), and volunteers teaching racquetball, Palestine Israel Network, Catherine works teaching Java programming at a high for Palestinian human rights and how school, and being a Big Brother in Big those rights intersect with other human Brothers Big Sisters. With his wife and new rights movements. Gordon Setter puppy, he enjoys traveling and visiting their three children and three Philip Amrein ’70 attended medical grandchildren. school at Johns Hopkins and earned a fellowship in hematology-oncology at Elizabeth Blackwood Bowerman ’70 spent Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) 20 years in the U.S. Navy, earned a master’s after OWU. With his wife, Karen, he lives in financial management, started both a in Belmont, Mass., and their children, bookkeeping service and a condominium Stephen, Leslie, and Kate, have led Sherry Smith Bell ’63 was elected to the management business after retiring, and interesting lives. As an attending physician Exhibitions Committee of the San Juan Islands then “went wild and took a job on a cruise doing clinical research in the leukemia Museum of Art. This museum, located in the San ship in Hawaii!” She is now happily retired disease center at MGH, he has been Juan Islands of northwest Washington, an area near San Antonio and very active in land fortunate to work with productive people noted for its scenic beauty and concentration conservation efforts in the beautiful Texas and has seen some of the new drugs of artists, is committed to promoting the arts hill country, serving as the president of the improve response and survival for patients. of the Pacific Northwest and Southwest British Comal County Conservation Alliance. Her Columbia. With rotating exhibitions through three husband, Rick, is the bass player in a local Jan Baran ’70 is a senior partner in the galleries, the museum hosts approximately eight band of other “old guys” and keeps their Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein LLP, to 10 exhibitions a year, as well as a lecture series, life full of music. Art as a Voice. Sherry also serves as vice president where he is the founder and past chair of the firm’s Election Law and Government for PADs for Parkison’s, a dog training facility for Chris Kreps Buchert ’70 and Tom Buchert Ethics group. In his 45 years as a lawyer, the detection of Parkinson’s disease. The nonprofit ’68 celebrated their 50th wedding Jan helped individuals, politicians, program is staffed by volunteers and a director of anniversary Dec. 27. They were married political parties, nonprofits, and business canine detection. Sherry’s dog, Jaden, an Australian over Christmas vacation because they organizations comply with laws that Shepherd, joined the program as a detection knew Tom would be home on leave. Their regulate political activity and lobbying. dog sniffing out disease. Pictured: Sherry in her life has been a journey. Chris taught for In addition to arguing constitutional printmaking studio, Blue Sky Press. many years in Middletown, Ohio, where cases before the Supreme Court of the they lived. Their three daughters, Julie, United States, Jan served as a member advisory committees focused on cannabis Katie, and Jill, along with their sons-in-law of federal and Virginia government regulation and use of cannabis tax and grandchildren, have brought them commissions and was the U.S. ambassador revenue for youth education, prevention, much joy. Tom and Chris like to travel and to an international telecommunications early intervention, and treatment of have visited all 50 states. Chris has traveled assembly. He and his wife, Kathryn, live in substance abuse. to all seven continents. The Plains, Va., and have four children and five grandchildren, all in the D.C. area. Charles “Chuck” Bauer ’69 had his artistic John Egan ’70 has lived a life filled with work exhibited in the gallery in the offices happiness since graduation and is grateful

32 | OWU for his many blessings. He is a partner in young granddaughters and will be a small consulting firm with no desire to celebrating their 50th wedding retire. However, he is creating more time anniversary in October. They to focus on other interests, such as travel, continue to live in Virginia Beach, Va. walking his Golden Retriever in the nearby woods, and finishing a book 10 years in Cynthia Dimon Hendrick ’70 development. John has been married for grew up by the Atlantic Ocean 40 years and has two married boys and in Ocean City, N.J., and retired by four grandchildren. While he has lived the Pacific. Her journalism degree in Hunt Valley, Md., for 38 years, he still initially led her to newspaper considers Ohio his home and cheers for writing and editing jobs, then to the Tribe. similar positions in the medical and education fields. She married, Susan Flaata ’70 says every day is an divorced, made good friends, and adventure. After OWU, she married learned valuable life lessons in Wendell and earned her master’s degree Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio from the University of Michigan. They (her children grew up in Shaker Pete Lee ’65 and his wife, Joette, will celebrate their 50th have three married children, Amanda Heights, Ohio), North Carolina, and anniversary this year and continue to enjoy busy lives in Flaata ’99, Ben, and Rachel, as well as one Tennessee. Now that she is retired, Arroyo Grande, Calif. Pete is still involved with youth lacrosse, grandson. For 25 years, Susan taught fifth she enjoys San Diego’s myriad of but he retired from competitive tournament lacrosse in through eighth grade in Sylvania, Ohio. cultures, beautiful scenery, and November. He still volunteers as the administrative assistant She has lived in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, plentiful learning opportunities. She to the head coach of a local girls’ high school soccer team and Arizona, with extensive domestic and also has time to volunteer, quilt, (their son is the varsity head coach). He looks forward to the international travel. Susan now lives a new and garden year-round, not missing SAE chapter reunion in October 2020. life in Iowa as a caregiver for her husband the snow. with Alzheimer’s disease. She appreciates her wonderful family, friends, life, and Julie Hymen ’70 took part in the fall Sally “Sarah” Constantin Kittredge ’70 OWU education. 1969 Arts Program in New York. Her first returned to Rochester, N.Y., where she job was with Merce Cunningham Dance and her husband of 48 years, George, Sandy Seel Gallagher ’70 feels fortunate Company, and her claim to fame was raised their two sons. Being in Rochester to have attended OWU, not just for as assistant company manager for the allows them to make their family cottage the excellent education, but also for world premiere of Einstein on the Beach, in the Thousand Islands a priority. Delta wonderful roommates, lifelong friendships, European tour of 1976. Julie held positions Gamma alumnae became a part of Sarah’s and meeting the love of her life, Rick as bookkeeper/finance manager for life, introducing her to a wonderful group Gallagher ’69. They have been married arts organizations, volunteer leader for of women. She has enjoyed working for for 46 years and have two children. After American Youth Hostels’ bicycling and several nonprofits, both in management graduation, Sandy taught elementary skiing trips, and key manager for Five Boro and fundraising, over the years. Not quite school before “retiring” to raise their Bike Tour. She is a member of Park Avenue ready to fully retire, she works seasonally children. She began to teach literacy United Methodist Church. She never for United Way. They are blessed with a courses at the local community college, married or had children, but had a few terrific family, including four grandchildren eventually teaching education courses boyfriends, including the grandson of a in San Francisco and Boston. They enjoy as an adjunct for Ashland University. She famous writer. She is possibly relocating to traveling there and to other exotic later became the undergraduate director her “hometown” of Albany, N.Y. locations. at Ashland’s Elyria Program Center. After 22 years, she retired in July 2017, now visiting Sara Michael Josey ’70 married Bill Josey in Gerry Lynn ’70 mourns the passing of her first granddaughter in Orlando, Fla., as 1975 and moved to London for five years. Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers often as possible. The two met singing in choir and still Greg Krone and Glenn Rodman ’70. He sing 45 years later, now with the National began his career with a try at teaching Linda Odell Granger ’70, originally of Philharmonic Chorale, its chamber choir, before deciding to earn a master’s degree Mentor, Ohio, retired from a career and the choir at St. John’s Lafayette in accounting from the University of of nearly 40 years with the city of Square. Sara and Bill enjoy traveling with Hartford. He retired after 27 years working Virginia Beach, where she managed the choir, venturing to Vienna, Iceland, for the state of Connecticut as an internal the city’s financial systems and process and Italy, and on their own to Portugal, auditor. Gerry has been married for improvement projects. She earned her Lithuania, and Tanzania. They have four 31 years to Elizabeth Barrett, and they MBA from Old Dominion University and children, including Austin Josey ’02, and have no children. For the past 30 years, later was inducted into the City Employee nine grandchildren. Sara is a retired high he has been interested in scuba diving, Hall of Fame. She and her husband, school choral, piano, music theory, and even diving in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Doug, are enjoying retirement through fine arts resource teacher and now stays Micronesia, and Bali. His biggest interest travel and boating on the Chesapeake busy as an education assistant for the now is playing with a 1964 Buick Riviera. Bay. They have two daughters and two National Philharmonic and a babysitter.

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Steve McKeever ’70 and Liz Cunningham social worker; and two grandsons. John’s neighbors age in place. She spends a day McKeever ’70 will be celebrating their ties to OWU have been maintained by the each week tutoring at an elementary 50th wedding anniversary in August. They matriculation of nieces and a nephew, by school in one of the most deprived raised their two children in Chatham, N.J., periodic returns of the 1969–70 Bashford neighborhoods in the nation’s capital. and Plano, Texas, and now split their time Hall residence counselors, and by the between Vero Beach, Fla., and Colorado recent campus installation of the inaugural Jane Sarno ’71 was inducted into the Otter Springs, Colo. Steve retired from JCPenney Morris Family Professorship in the Natural Valley Hall of Fame in Vermont on Sept. 12 years ago after 38 years with the Sciences. 28. Selected for her exemplary scholarship, company. Their three children are happily citizenship, and character, Jane taught married and have given Liz and Steve Janet Stephan Shapiro ’70 of Longboat American Studies at Otter Valley for 27 seven grandchildren. Their hobbies include Key, Fla., retired from teaching in 2014. years, eventually becoming curriculum golf, pickleball, bridge, and world traveling, She volunteers in community activities, director before retiring in 2009. leading a good life. is the administrative secretary and youth chairman of the Rotary Club Richard Sesler ’71 was selected as Belk’s of Longboat Key, and serves Project Hometown Hero for his founding as president of the board at of Camp Blue Skies, a camp program for her church’s early care center. adults with developmental disabilities. Walking, swimming, and reading He was awarded this recognition during are some of her favorite college football’s Belk Bowl at Charlotte’s hobbies. She and her husband Bank of America Stadium on Dec. 31. are members of the Ringling Museum of Art and attend Jim Baron ’75 lives in Mentor, Ohio, with gallery walks. The two have his wife of 35 years, Nancy. Their two traveled throughout the U.S. daughters live in Columbus, Ohio, and and, since her retirement, have Salt Lake City, and Jim and Nancy became explored one region of Europe grandparents in 2018. Jim still works at his each summer. photography business of over 30 years On December 29, a group of OWU alumni from greater Baltimore and maintains a studio in Cleveland, and D.C., Arizona, Lancaster, Pa., and other areas gathered for Thomas Truesdell ’70 spent Ohio. He also has done tour guide work good cheer and camaraderie at the Valley Inn in Lutherville- 29 years as a sales manager for for Roads Scholars and has led trips in Timonium, Md. There to toast one another, their alma mater, and Kaiser Aluminum, retiring in Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the lasting friendships were, from left, (front row) Cynthia Richards 2014. Most of those years were Ohio presidential sites. He and Nancy Cunningham ‘75, Annie Griffith Seiler ‘75, Jim Ries ‘78, (second in Granville, Ohio, but he also enjoy travel, and last summer they biked 72 row) Ellen Simpson ‘77, Lisa Chapin Hoffberger ‘79, Rob Richards spent four years in Macon, Ga., miles in America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride ‘77, Peter Hoffberger ‘78, Sally Ries Erlanger ‘83, (back row) and two in Evergreen, Colo. at Lake Tahoe, raising almost $5,000 for the Steve Cunningham ‘75, Rich Seiler ‘72, Gordon Witkin ‘77, and Ann Stafford Truesdell ’69 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Niels Holch ‘78. did volunteer work for Kappa Kappa Gamma for many years Norman Butt ’75 graduated from and ultimately became the executive Miami University in 1988 and joined The Jill Haddock McNaughton ’70 earned director for the KKG Foundation, retiring in Architectural Group, Inc., of Dayton, her M.A. in guidance and counseling at 2013. They moved to Arcata, Calif., in 2015 Ohio, where he focuses on university Ohio State University and continued to be closer to their two grandchildren, and health care projects. He is a part to spend her career in education, from noting the change from conservative Ohio of organizations such as the American working at Druid Hills High School in to liberal California, but knowing it was the Institute of Architects and the United Atlanta to Grandview Heights High School best move of their lives. They celebrated States Green Build Council. Norman lives in Columbus, Ohio. Jill retired in 2012 and their 49th wedding anniversary on Dec. 27. in Oxford, Ohio, and is a member of the began part-time work at OSU to review board of directors of Oxford Community student applications. She and her husband, Sharon Anderholm Wiener ’70 still Arts Center. Brian, welcomed their first granddaughter mourns the recent loss to cancer of her in 2018 and are now looking forward to a husband, Howard “Kerry” Wiener ’70, David Crandall ’75 retired in September little traveling. but is enjoying retirement from a 34-year 2018 after a 45-year career in student affairs career with the Foreign Service and is in higher education. He credits the world- John Morris ’70 has lived in St. Louis, taking advantage of Washington, D.C.’s class early 1970s OWU student affairs Mo., since 1982. A neurologist, he serves many cultural treasures. She frequently team for a great start in a rewarding career. as director and principal investigator of visits their son and granddaughters in He served the last 19 years as executive the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Berkeley, Calif., as well as their daughter director of the Associated Students at Center at Washington University School and grandson (named after his late California State University, Northridge. His of Medicine. He and his wife, Lucy, a grandfather) in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sharon wife, Maureen O’Connell, hopes to retire retired radiologist, have been married for volunteers with the local “village” from Northrop Grumman in the coming 41 years and have three children: Carrie, organization, committed to helping senior a physician; Ted, an attorney; and Mary, a year or so. Her daughters, Samantha and

34 | OWU Taylor, are in restaurant management and college admissions, respectively. His daughters, Katie and Taylor, are in P.A. graduate school and children’s nutrition, respectively. In retirement David plans to learn tai chi and to play the cello, as well as continue his photography, carpentry, and travel.

Ann Gregor Fleming ’75 spent the next William “Ted” Bolton ’74 is in his eighth year teaching digital marketing at the University of Miami Herbert Business 29 years after OWU School. This career follows him retiring from his Philadelphia-based companies, Bolton Research Corporation and as a military spouse, Liberty Broadcasting. Ted (in center wearing green) currently resides in Coconut Grove, Fla. with his wife, Nancy moving 14 times, Anderson Bolton, the vice president of gA (Grupo Assa), a global technology company. Pictured: Ted with his fall 2019 living in places such Fundamentals of Digital Marketing class. Ted teaches students all aspects of digital marketing strategy and analytics as Okinawa, Korea, and allows them to create content for #UDigital, a Facebook page devoted to the topics discussed in class. England, and Belgium. Her hardest move with Intrado, a 9-1-1 database management a commercial and residential real estate was taking her only child to college in and call routing service. Prior to that, he appraiser in Washington and Massachusetts Florida and then getting on a plane for completed a 24-year career with AT&T in for over 20 years, and is now responsible Belgium where she remained for the next sales management, marketing, and product for all commercial and residential property three years. Her greatest challenge was management. He is the coauthor of a valuations for the Office of the Assessor in October 2018 surviving Category 5 family of nine U.S. patents for 9-1-1 services in Arizona’s Yuma County. Jay has one Hurricane Michael. She and her mother in Private Branch Exchange and campus daughter, Hanna, and three grandchildren. spent the first night in the car after the environments. Dick and his wife, Nancy, He describes himself as an enthusiastic, but roof, ceilings, and water came crashing enjoy travel and spending as much time as only marginally talented, musician and a down all around them. They are slowly possible with their two grandchildren—and dedicated desert rat. rebuilding, but very grateful and thankful. regularly reuniting with his Sig Ep brothers. They live in Naperville, Ill. Robin Horton LeBlanc ’75 continues to Dick Fowler ’75 is a volunteer leader at lead Plan NH, the unofficial Smart Growth Loaves & Fishes Community Services. He Ann Ellsworth Guins ’75 and her husband organization of New Hampshire. In this retired in 2013 after 11 years as a director live in Hudson, Fla., from fall through role, she manages programs that raise spring, before returning awareness of the impact of community to Ohio in the summer. design and support a vision of healthy Their grown children are and vibrant towns and neighborhoods married, and they have across the state. She is an advocate for one grandson and three housing choices, walkable downtowns, and step-grandchildren. reframing how we think about aging. Robin While Ann still swims believes strongly in the participation of competitively and residents and others in creating a new future is certified in adult for communities. She lives in Portsmouth, learn-to-swim, she and N.H., with her husband, Charles. They have her husband have also three grown children and two grandchildren. Sharlene Carter ’74 was taken up pickleball. named a poet laureate Annie Griffith Seiler ’75 has worked at by Poetry and Praise Jay Immelt ’75 Ohio Wesleyan for almost 37 years in a Ministries. She received graduated from Seattle variety of capacities. In 2001, while serving a note from President University School as OWU’s director of alumni relations, Barack Obama about her of Law in 1977 and she helped organize a tournament of poem “American Ends in conducted trial work lacrosse alumni in Lake Placid, N.Y. Former I Can,” and former OWU education faculty Dury Sudduth delivered in state and federal lacrosse coach Richie Seiler ’72 and Annie two poems she wrote about Nelson Mandela to the Nelson Mandela courts across the nation. reconnected there and were married in House Museum in South Africa. Above right, Sudduth delivers He then led a career as 2002. Since then, the couple have lived Sharlene’s poems to the museum. Sharlene also received a U.S. Congressional Recognition from Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) for being honored at the 22nd annual awards celebration of Poetry and Praise. SPRING 2020 | 35 classnotes

in Baltimore, where she works for OWU Michael Jordan ’76 was awarded the Royal Ruggiero ’09, Brooke Demarest, and Leah remotely. They have four adult children Palm Literary Award for his first novel, Demarest, who are scattered across the and three grandchildren. When not The Company of Demons. More than 500 country. Sandy and Russ welcomed their working, Annie and Richie love to hike, qualifiers submitted for this prestigious granddaughter, Makenzie, and visit the fly fish, and camp in Montana, Wyoming, award, given by the Florida Writers family in Littleton, Colo. whenever they and Idaho, and travel wherever they can Association, and Michael’s book based can. in North America. Through their travels, on the true story of the infamous Torso work, alumni lacrosse, and more, they love Murderer emerged as the winner. After William Ingram ’80 will retire from connecting and reconnecting with many graduating from OWU, Michael earned his presidency at Durham Technical OWU friends. a law degree from George Washington Community College in North Carolina. University and went into trial law with After 35 years in leadership roles, and work as a civil litigator. He continued 12 as its president, he saw Durham Tech writing all the way into his current retired expand its main campus and add another life in Longboat Key, Fla. campus in Hillsborough, N.C. William also has served as a senior vice president, chief Robert DiBiasio ’77, the senior vice instructional officer, director of continuing president of public affairs for the education, and more. Cleveland Indians, spoke on the team’s 2020 fortunes in February in Ashland, Rob Last ’80 of East Lansing, Mich., is Ohio. He is in his 41st season of public finishing up a three-year term in the relations with the MLB team, even hosting leadership of the American Society of the popular Indians Alumni Roundtable Plant Biologists while serving as professor Show on Sportstime Ohio (STO). of plant biochemistry at Michigan State University. He expresses his gratitude for the great training in chemistry, botany, and 1980s zoology he received from OWU faculty in Maureen Staley Cary ’80 notes it’s been 40 those and other departments. years since the muggy indoor graduation ceremony during which class president Bridgett Donnell played the Kenny Loggins song “This Is it” as an intro to her speech; four decades since her younger sister stumbled down the bleachers of Branch Rickey on her way to the bathroom after too much partying the night before; 479 Kathy Geer Root ’75 is sorry to miss the class’ months since her address was Delaware, 45th reunion, as she will be at her daughter’s Ohio, and she thought college graduation Ph.D. graduation from the University of California, meant she was an adult. Maureen married Berkeley. Kathy retired last October, showing up Peter Cary ’79, and they have four grown on the courts to learn to play pickleball the next children. She shifted from journalism and day—definitely a new sports addiction. She is communications into freelance work and looking to complete triathlon numbers 48, 49, and parenting before attending Boston College 50 this summer (after finishing No. 47 in September for a degree in counseling psychology. 2019, shown above), visit England twice for her Maureen has worked as a psychotherapist granddaughters, travel to Iceland (again), California, for nearly a decade and feels fortunate to and Austin, Texas, along with anything else she can be in a high-demand field that values life think to do. Three kids with three spouses, three experience. She looks forward to seeing grandkids, and no work—life is excellent. She wishes everyone in May. a happy reunion to everyone! Oh-Wooo! Matthew Tabenken ’80 relocated from Massachusetts to Falmouth, Maine, in 2010, building Sandy Bodine Demarest ’80 lives in Agnes Haigh Widder ’75 is in her 41st year a house bordering a fairway on a golf course. For the Amherst, N.H., with her husband, Russ. past 12 years, he has managed marketing and sales as a librarian at Michigan State University She owns Demarest Directions, a career, Libraries in East Lansing, Mich. She is for Moët Hennessy U.S.A. in Maine, New Hampshire, leadership, and retirement transition and Vermont, part of the LVMH group. Matthew’s responsible for British, French, medieval/ coaching business. She loves working Renaissance, and religious studies. In 1986 wife, Joyce, is an administrative coordinator for with mid-to-late-career clients to help Pierce Atwood LLP, one of Maine’s largest law firms. she married Keith Widder, a Western them find purpose and navigate their Great Lakes historian working for Mackinac Their daughter, Lily, is a high school senior and has next chapter. Sandy is coauthoring a been accepted to many schools, including OWU. Island State Park Commission. He has Conscious Living in the Second book, They have a vacation home on the ocean in New retired, and she has retirement on her Half of Life. She loves spending time with radar as well. Harbor, Maine, and have also enjoyed traveling to their three daughters, Melissa Demarest Lanai, Hawaii; London; and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in the past year.

36 | OWU Henry “Lee” Cooper IV ’85 joined Welsh, years, leading teams from Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) as Eastern Kentucky University, an Operating Partner. WCAS is a private Wake Forest University, equity firm focused on the health care Ohio University, and more. and technology industries, and Cooper At OWU he earned three brings his experience as an accomplished All-North Coast Athletic health care executive with over 25 years of Conference selections when leadership at GE. he played as a defensive back, eventually landing Darryl Peal ’85 was named Northern him in the Ohio Wesleyan Kentucky University’s chief diversity, Athletic Hall of Fame. equity, and inclusion officer (CDO) and Title IX coordinator. Darryl is arriving Ann Pryor ’87 is settling at this new position with experience into her second year as from the National Collegiate Athletic senior communications Association in driving strategic initiatives manager at Kensington through engagements and partnerships Books in New York City. Gathering for a “Girlfriend Mini Reunion,” (from left, standing) Linda with NCAA members, sponsors, and She was brought on board Nicewander Brincks ’86, Linda Pollitz ’86, Alison Cauthorn ’86, Pat external stakeholders. to help grow the New Franz ’86, (seated) Serena Bowman White ’86, and Laura Reynolds York-based independent Kessler ’86 shared OWU swag to commemorate the occasion. At Mary-Ann Wanjui-Wamalwa ’85 was a publisher’s nonfiction line, Pat’s home outside Oklahoma City, the friends of 37 years sported second-generation international student and she manages publicity, handmade matching red and black scarves. at OWU, quickly understanding why marketing, and tours for her father, Joseph Wanjui ’61, wanted authors whose topics range her to attend his alma mater. The pre- from health, military history, and cinema husband, Mark Miller ’85, live in Jackson internet exposure to both American to business leadership and inspiration. To Heights, Queens, one of New York City’s and international students provided a date she has helped create a New York most diverse neighborhoods, and still talk multicultural environment she never Times bestseller and has booked authors fondly of classes with Conrad Kent on would have experienced had she studied on such outlets as NPR, The Atlantic, the Modern Temper and Blake Michael in at home in Kenya. She followed suit and The Washington Post, and the Today comparative religion. sent her daughter, Mukami Wamala ’21, Show. Ann spent 17 years at McGraw-Hill to OWU. Professional handling public relations for Joseph Schroeder ’87 was celebrated authors in the consumer and business as the cross country coach of the Evan Dockser ’86 was appointed managing space; she also worked at HarperCollins year for the second consecutive year Boston Globe director of Eyzenberg & Company’s new and Simon & Schuster. Ann and her by the . He has led the regional office in Washington, D.C. As Martha’s Vineyard boys cross country the first hire, Evan will work to grow the team into island history by winning real estate investment bank’s presence in the Massachusetts Division II State Championship among other achievements the area and leverage its capital markets across his 31 years of coaching. expertise. He previously worked in hospitality and residential transactions with clients, including urban boutique 1990s hotels and signature golf resorts. Ann Krysiak Kirschner ’90 was hired at North Coast Angel Fund (NCAF) as Todd Fitch ’86 was hired as offensive chief financial officer, the first role of coordinator for Vanderbilt University’s its kind there. With over 25 years of football team. He is a 35-year veteran financial management experience with of college football and spent the past top accounting firms, she will lead NCAF’s four seasons at Louisiana Tech. Todd has financial management and analysis been offensive coordinator at Boston activities. College and has coached at Iowa State, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Ohio Edward “Ted” Cosgrove IV ’92 was Wesleyan. Bruce Clash ’86 rewon a seat on the nominated as a candidate for the Carlisle school board in Carlisle, Pa., on Framingham Zoning Board of Appeals in Dean Hood ’86 became Murray State Nov. 5. After earning his degree in politics Massachusetts. Recommended by Mayor University’s head football coach in and government at OWU, he received Yvonne Spicer, Ted is one of six presented December. Formerly the special teams a Master of Public Administration from to the city council for review and approval. coordinator and defensive backs coach American University. Bruce currently works At Ohio Wesleyan he majored in politics at the University of Kentucky, Dean has as Pennsylvania state director for Fight and government. coached collegiate football for over 30 Crime: Invest in Kids, part of the nonprofit Council for a Strong America.

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Rebecca Roesner ’92, chair and professor the company in 2007 of chemistry at Illinois Wesleyan as chief financial University, has been named associate officer, the winery provost. She joined Illinois Wesleyan was producing around in 1997 and was named chair of the 80,000 cases annually. chemistry department in 2006. Among Now, as one of the Rebecca’s many awards is the 2014 Kemp top-selling wineries in Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, the state, it produces the university’s highest teaching honor, about 400,000 cases presented annually to a faculty member. a year. See story on Page 16. Jeffrey Zalatoris ’93 graduated from Wesley Theological Seminary with a Joe Cassidy ’95 is in Master of Divinity, was commissioned his 24th year teaching as a provisional elder in the Baltimore- in Montgomery Washington Conference of the United County Public Methodist Church, and is now a pastor Schools, with the last Justin Krueger ’97 and his wife, Ann-Morgan, built a home in Marysville, at Harmony UMC in Falling Waters, W.Va. 13 years at Whitman Ohio, where Justin owns his own practice as a pediatrician and internist. With his wife, Alice Ehlers Zalatoris ’93, High School in He also enjoys working as the medical director of the Newborn Nursery he is settling in Martinsburg, W.Va., and Bethesda, Md., and and as the chair of internal medicine at Memorial Hospital. They adjusting to life with their son away at the last 18 years as a welcomed their fifth child, daughter Molly Anne Krueger, on March 11, 2019. college. varsity baseball coach. Molly joins her older sisters, Katie and Paige, as well as her older brothers, Joe will celebrate Sam and Ryan. The family is usually found at a soccer field, a track, a show Amy Prosenjak ’94 was promoted to his 10th wedding choir competition, or a cross country meet (or busy doing laundry from all president and CEO of A to Z Wineworks, anniversary in July of the above). a winery that grows and crafts wines only with his wife, Libby, practice resulting in improved patient care. from Oregon sources. When she joined also a teacher, and they spend their free She works as a pharmacist at Griffith & Feil summers in Cape Cod, Mass. Drug in Kenova, W.Va. David Kovar ’95 is a professor of Joshua Mandel ’98 was signed as head molecular genetics and cell biology at coach of the Berlin Rebels, the 2019 the University of Chicago. He lives in the Beverly neighborhood of Chicago with his German Football League quarterfinalists wife, Elizabeth, and their children, Emily (American football). He started coaching and Roger. with the Rebels in late 2010, became the defensive coordinator in 2015, and Kenneth Robinson ’95 will be taking on will begin his new role as head coach in additional responsibilities for the American the 2020 season. While at OWU, he was Red Cross as the regional disaster officer a physical education major, served as for the central and southern Ohio regions. captain of the football team, and lettered There since 1995, he says it has been a all four years. dream job to work with volunteers in alleviating human suffering and creating Mark Wade ’99 was the guest artist prepared, resilient communities. After at the annual Central Ohio Symphony 23 years in a traditional Rotary Club, he holiday concert on Dec. 15 in Gray Chapel. switched to the Ohio Pathways E-Club to Mark holds a doctoral degree in trumpet better accommodate his schedule and is performance from Ohio State University, Victoria Hawes Gearity ’93 announced she will now writing an online training program for has taught at Denison University, and is a not seek a fourth term as mayor of Ossining, presidents-elect. He and Tara Robinson national hammered dulcimer champion. N.Y. She will explore opportunities that build on ’93, a physician, are entering their 25th year He played as a soloist and with the her experience in economic development and of marriage. Their oldest son will graduate orchestra on the hammered dulcimer. sustainability. Victoria was the first woman elected from Bowling Green State University in mayor of her community. Her administration May before attending law school, and their has overseen a period of thriving economic other son will be entering his second year 2000s Anand Philip ’00 lived in New York City growth while maintaining no tax rate increase and at BGSU in the fall. implementing energy-saving initiatives. With college for 15 years; Cambridge, Mass., for two years while earning an MBA; and has lived tuition bills on the horizon for her two sons, Victoria Heidi Romero ’97 was chosen as the West in Minneapolis for the past three. He has is leaving office in order to earn a greater income for Virginia recipient of the 2019 Upsher-Smith been involved in private equity and hedge her family. She acknowledges it will be challenging NASPA Excellence in Innovation Award fund industries the entire time and now to find a position as rewarding as serving her for demonstrating innovative pharmacy community as mayor, and she keeps open the door runs his own investment firm. He and to serve in a locally elected office again one day.

38 | OWU his wife, Amy, have a son, Teddy, and are Amazon Prime. You also can watch weeks. In the fall, the couple purchased expecting another child. With a growing Veronica in See The Light, written and their first home in South Boston. Brandon business and tiny kids ruling their lives, directed by Aretha Tatum, which was received his MBA from Northeastern there is little free time. featured in the 2019 Chicago South Side University in 2018 and will be celebrating Film Festival. See The Light also screened his five-year anniversary at Fidelity John Vandersall ’00 moved back home to at the Vocalize Film Event in Trinidad and Investments later this year. Indianapolis a few years ago. Now a realtor the Inspired Film Festival in Atlanta. The with the largest independent brokerage in film won the Best Inspirational Film Award Indiana, TC Tucker, John has helped many at the 2019 Anaheim Film Festival this year. individuals and families buy and sell in central Indiana. In 2018 he ranked in the Michelle Koch ’06 joined the law firm top 10 percent of new agents. He is also Baker & Hostetler LLP of Cleveland, Ohio, helping organize a central Indiana alumni in September as a conflicts researcher. chapter and serves on the development She was previously employed as an committee for School on Wheels, a local investigator at Research Associates Inc., of nonprofit providing tutors for homeless Westlake, Ohio. Michelle celebrated one children in Indianapolis. year of cancer remission in November.

Jose “Pepe” Villasenor III ’01 was named Christy Sicher George ’07 was named the All-Area Coach of the Year by the executive director of the Illinois Lee Central Coast News in Santa Maria, Commerce Commission (ICC), an Calif. He has won two Mountain League organization overseeing utility services to championships in his two seasons leading Illinois citizens. She is ICC’s first noninterim the St. Joseph High School football team, female executive director. Christy his first head coaching position. previously served as the deputy budget Josh Dawson ’05 was elected the 2020 vice president director for the city of Chicago and of the Greater Dublin (Ohio) Realty Association; he The past year has been an amazing one assistant commissioner for the Chicago will be president in 2021. As a realtor with Core Ohio for emerging actress and voice-over actor Department of Business Affairs and Realty Advisors and a Dublin resident, Josh specializes Veronica Dillard ’02. She was nominated Consumer Protection. in residential and multifamily sales in central Ohio. He among the top 30 finalists for the CBS 2 also serves on the government affairs committee of audition spotlight at the That’s Voiceover! Joe Duffy ’09 was promoted to real estate the Columbus Board of Realtors. Career Expo in Los Angeles. Now her film development director at Union Miles Humanity Without a Home, written by Development Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio. Armon Robinson and directed by Armon He also was accepted as a member of the Kristen Lear ’11 was featured in Robinson and Rel Torry, is available on American Institute of Certified Planners an American Association for the with the American Planning Association. Advancement of Science (AAAS) publication. The article chronicles her scientific passion, bats, and details her first 2010s real experience with the animals while at It was a win-win situation for Ohio voters OWU. She went on to earn a U.S. Fulbright in the City of Delaware’s Fourth Ward. In Postgraduate Scholarship to further study the November general election, voters bats in Australia. Kristen is an If/Then chose between two OWU alumni: Drew Ambassador with AAAS, where she serves Farrell ’10 and Sarah JanTausch ’14. Drew, as a role model for girls interested in STEM hailing from Toledo, majored in history for careers. She also will appear in a segment teachers at OWU. Both he and his wife, of Mission Unstoppable on CBS and lead Whitney Deel Farrell ’10, now teach in a National Geographic Explorer Classroom central Ohio. Sarah, raised in Delaware, session. graduated with a degree in politics and government. She has led a career in state Anthony Peddle ’14 presented his government focusing on policy areas dissertation research at the National including business-impacting regulations. Association for the Education of Young She is married to Jonathan Bocanegra Children conference in Nashville, Tenn., ’14, a data scientist at JPMorgan Chase in November. After defending his & Co. In the final analysis, voters tapped dissertation, “Teachers, Positive ACE Glenda Wucher Bernhardt ’00 was named the new Democratic candidate Drew for the post. Scores and Their Informed Classroom CEO and executive director of Freedom School Practices,” Anthony is expected to Partners, a nonprofit organization in Charlotte, N.C., Brandon Luttinger ’10 married Dana Lord graduate with his Doctor of Education that promotes the long-term success of children by in Duxbury, Mass., on Aug. 17, and they degree in leadership studies from Ashland preventing summer learning loss through igniting a honeymooned in Bali, Indonesia, for two University in May. passion for reading and inspiring a love for learning.

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Megan Pinto ’14 had her poetic work “To Miles Mackenzie ’15 cofounded a new the Old Man Who Lived on a Hill; The digital beer, wine, and liquor delivery Births Unfolding” published by Ploughshares, a platform, Handoff. Based in Colorado, journal of contemporary writing. She is a Miles and the other two founders of 2000s playmakers playwright and resident artist Handoff aimed to create a viable way to Kristen Houser Sluss ’06 and Phil Sluss at the Purple Rose Theatre Company in replenish drinks without missing a minute welcomed their third son, Micah Paul, on Chelsea, Mich., and an artist-in-residence of an exciting sports game. Handoff is May 30, 2019. at The Tank NYC. supported by mobile, Alexa, and Google devices and guarantees deliveries in 60 Blaire Hayden Bartish ’07 and Dave minutes or less at a nominal fee. Bartish welcomed their second child, Rosalie Joyce, on Sept. 11. Big brother Jonathan Overstreet ’15 was named a Louie is excited to take care of his “little finalist for the Fulbright U.S. Student princess,” but is a little frustrated she Program 2019–2020. As one of the 15 doesn’t know how to play baseball yet. students nominated, Jonathan has received a grant offer for an English Teaching Caitlyn Nestleroth Johnson ’08 and Assistantship in South Africa. He majored James “JJ” Johnson IV welcomed their first in zoology at OWU. child, Brooke McKenzie, on Oct. 13.

Joseph and Linda Diamond H’18 received Matthew McNeal ’08 and Kate Elwell the Spirit of Philanthropy award at the McNeal ’09 welcomed their first son, Delaware County Foundation’s annual Mason James, on Jan. 6. Also celebrating Evening of Generosity on Oct. 10. The are aunt Mary McNeal ’13, great-aunt honorary alumni are both founding Dawn Nesbitt Wright ’85, and cousins members and board members of Main Jake Wright ’16 and Reilly Wright ’20. Street Delaware and contribute to nearly every volunteer committee. Their Kevin McMahon ’10 and Kaitlin Raphael community engagement extends to their McMahon ’09 welcomed their first child, dedication to preserving the history of Jack James, on Nov. 12. Also celebrating are the Strand Theatre, where they can be grandparents Susan Harris Raphael ’80 seen helping during busy opening nights. and James Raphael ’79. Joe and Linda established an estate gift for OWU that will create the C. Joseph and Linda Diamond Endowed Scholarship, further exhibiting their community connection and philanthropic spirit. We want to Friends hear from you Brianna Robinson ’15 won the 2020 6th Getting to James Dicke II was elected president Please send us your news using the Carnegie Hall competition as soprano. As part of the of the Horatio Alger Association of form at http://www.owu.edu/classnotes. Or email your news to classnotes@owu. prize, she will fly to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands Distinguished Americans Inc., a nonprofit to perform in the Water Island Music Festival. edu. Submissions may be edited for educational organization honoring space or clarity. outstanding individuals and youth Ryan Haddad ’15 was featured in seeking higher education. James is a 2015 You can also submit your news to: Cleveland Magazine for his rising career in Horatio Alger Award recipient and was Attn: Class Notes Editor acting as a gay, disabled man. He landed a the association’s vice president before OWU Magazine Ohio Wesleyan University big role in the Netflix high school dramedy his election. He is the chairman and Mowry Alumni Center The Politician as Andrew Cashman, a CEO of Crown Equipment, an Ohio- 61 S. Sandusky St. cunning teen, and he’s performed his based manufacturer of forklifts, and is Delaware, OH 43015 autobiographical comedic solo play (also recognized for his generous contributions his OWU senior thesis project) “Hi, Are to scholarships. James became a member Include your name and class year You Single?” nationwide. Ryan continues of the association’s prestigious Legacy of as well as a daytime phone number. to explore these intersections of identity Achievement Circle for those who have Photos are welcome. in the filming of season 2 of The Politician greatly contributed to the endowment of The deadline for receiving Class and in four other productions he is Horatio Alger scholarships. Notes and Faculty Notes submissions workshopping or performing. for the Fall 2020 OWU Magazine is May 19, 2020.

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1 Curry-Rosenthal wedding Molly Curry Rosenthal ’13 and Scott Rosenthal ’13 were married Sept. 21 at the Nantucket Yacht Club in Nantucket, Mass. Molly’s parents also met while at OWU. (L-R) Travis Boyle ’12, Matt Thomas ’13, Colin Short ’13, Irena Pandzic ’12, Jake Liebrock ’12, Katie Liebrock ’12, Kathleen Lewis ’12, Meredith Wholley ’13, Mary Shinnick ’13, Julia Alkon ’14, the bride, Kyle Harrigan ’13, Chaz Narwicz ’10, Emily Lunstroth ’13, Liza Bennett ’13, Chris Ehlinger ’10, Spencer Schnell ’14, John Curry ’83, Tyler Kingsley ’13, Amy Curry ’84, Sean Walter ’13, Dan Kaplan ’14, Ken Callahan ’13, the groom, Stephen Ford ’14, Thomas Minkler ’14, Nick Striler ’13, Kenneth Bennett ’83, Lauretta Kennedy 3 Mulholland ’84, Thomas Raymond ’84, Deborah Truesdale ’84, Julie Alden Dee ’84, Laura Boulton ’84, Caitlin Bailey ’14, Gabrielle Dinkin ’14, and Annie 3 Eileen Foley Marousek ’15 was married Sept. 28 Swanson ’13. to Sam Marousek in Strafford, N.H. OWU guests included, from left: (back row) John Peranzi ’15, groom, Cate Bailey ’14, Saige Bell ’15, bride, Killorin-Miller wedding 2 Kaitlyn Kropf ’15, Meredith Wholley ’13, Megan Abby Killorin Miller ’15 and Jake Miller ’14 were Doherty ’16, (front row) Jordan Bernstein ’15, married Oct. 5 in New Haven, Vt. Guests from Sarah Dailey ’15, Chris Shwanz ’15, and Peter OWU included, from left: (back row) Aj Barnhardt Hamblet ’18. ’16, Samantha Weeks ’15, Rebecca Muhl ’13, Jason Lonnemann ’14, Liam Dennigan ’15, Paul Priddy ’15, Maddie Priddy ’16, Mariah Brockbrader ’15, Ben Miller ’16, Elaine Young ’15, Carly Zalenski ’15, Sonja Petermann ’14, Haley Leber ’14, Ibrahim Saeed ’15, (front row) Collin Finn ’15, Ali Phillips ’16, Ashley Day ’18, bride, groom, Whitney Lonnemann ’15, and Ellie Magner ’15.

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Barbara West Lomas ’45, of Grand Howard “Bud” Miller ’48, of Cambridge, 1930s Rapids, Mich., Dec. 27, age 96. She was Ohio, Oct. 3, age 93. He was predeceased Eleanor Kirk Kackley ’36, of Columbus, married to Bernard, former president by his parents, sister Alice Miller Gall ’33, Ohio, Dec. 1, age 105. Throughout her of Albion College, for 72 years, and had wife Joan, and a daughter. He is survived life, Eleanor enjoyed reading, knitting, two sons, David and Paul. She is survived by his two sons, two sisters, and multiple volunteering at various organizations, and by three grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. He was a member of Sigma spending her summers at her Lakeside, grandchildren. She was predeceased by her Chi fraternity. Ohio, cottage. She was predeceased by son, David, cousin Joan Sawyer McKenney her aunt, Mary Hunter Kirk 1914, and ’48, and aunt Dorothy West 1924. She was Regina Boehringer Teetor ’48, of Marion, cousins Winston Kirk ’34, Rutledge a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Ohio, Dec. 2, age 93. She had a career of Kirk ’42, and Miriam Kirk Lamb ’51. teaching at Grand Prairie School and Eber She is survived by her two daughters, Joanne Kreisle Duran ’46, of Cincinnati, Baker Junior High, and enjoyed traveling grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Ohio, Oct. 17, age 96. She was predeceased the world. She was predeceased by her She was a member of Alpha Xi Delta by her husband, Robert, a sister, and husband, John, and two siblings. She is sorority. brother. She is survived by her sister, survived by her four children and many children, grandchildren, including Sam grandchildren and 1940s Duran ’08, and many great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Lois Wissinger Bartels ’42, of Snyder, She was a member of Kappa Kappa She was a member of Texas, Dec. 27, age 98. She was active in Gamma sorority. Alpha Xi Delta. the First Methodist Church, led the Girl Scouts, and volunteered as a “Pink Lady” at Jean Hayward Malerstein ’46, of San Vivian Taylor Dauber the hospital. She was predeceased by her Francisco, Calif, Sept. 20, age 94. She ’49, of Bradenton, husband, Bernhard, and is survived by her was predeceased by her husband, Joe. Fla., Oct. 7, age 92. four children and many grandchildren and She is survived by her children, Barbara She was predeceased great-grandchildren. She was a member of ’84, Sarah, Julia, and David, and many by her husband, Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She Philip, and her was a member of Chi Omega sorority. brother, William. She Mary Burlingame Young ’42, of San is survived by her Gabriel, Calif., Oct. 11, age 98. Mary was The Rev. Calvin Rodeheffer ’46, of stepson, cousins, and an active member and volunteer of the Portsmouth, Ohio, Dec. 20, age 94. grandchildren. She Edward Kitts ’48, of Dana Arcadia, Calif., community, serving on He served as a senior pastor at three was a member of the Point, Calif., Sept. 30, age 93. He the Arcadia City Council and as mayor churches before becoming inaugural OWU Tower Society. of Arcadia. She was predeceased by her executive director of Hill View Retirement was predeceased by his wife, Betty. He is survived by his four husband, Richard, a son, and brother Center, helping plan and build the center. Ann Inman Exum ’49, sons, including Stephen Kitts Robert Burlingame ’44. She is survived He is survived by his wife of 72 years, of Sweetwater, Tenn., ’71, and a daughter. He was a by her son, daughter, grandchildren, and Margery, four children, including Stephen Oct. 22, age 92. She member of Phi Gamma Delta great-grandchildren. She was a member of Rodeheffer ’73, and many grandchildren was predeceased by fraternity. Delta Gamma sorority. and great-grandchildren. her parents, George and Gladys Miller Majorie Farber Ross ’44, of Midland, Robert “Bob” Hamblet ’47, of Fargo, Inman 1922, husband Raymond Exum Texas, Oct. 9, age 97. She was an N.D., Oct. 9, age 94. He is survived by two ’48, daughter, son, and brother. She is engineering apprentice during World siblings, his wife, Jean, their five children, survived by sister Carol Inman Everson War II before she moved to Texas to be an and multiple grandchildren. ’54, children, including Jennifer Exum investment analyst. She was predeceased MacKenzie ’86, and many grandchildren. by her husband, John, and brother, William. Grace Carrington Goodall ’48, of Troy, Ann was a fourth-generation legacy at She is survived by her daughter, Kathy, Ohio, Dec. 8, age 93. She was a longtime OWU and a member of Kappa Kappa grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. member of the First Presbyterian Gamma sorority. She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta Church and the American Association sorority. of University Women, and volunteered Arthur Gundry ’49, of Lexington, Ky., at Stouder Memorial Hospital. She was Oct. 8, age 95. He was predeceased by predeceased by her husband, James, and Marianna Pollock Bowman ’45, of his parents, first wife, Beatrice, second Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 2, age 96. She was her sister. She is survived by her daughter, wife, Margarette, and a brother. He is a lifelong traveler, journeying the U.S. brother, and granddaughter. She was a survived by his two daughters and many and Europe while working for American member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Airlines and later sailing around the world on the QE2. She was predeceased by her Shirley Moore Hummel ’48, of Cleveland, Michael Homa ’49, of Gainesville, Fla., Dec. husband of 61 years, David, and is survived Ohio, Jan. 5, age 93. She was predeceased 25, age 94. For nearly 30 years, Michael by her three sons, five grandchildren, by her husband, Paul Hummel ’49, and practiced general surgery in Virginia, even and sisters Evelyn Pollock Sadler ’51 is survived by her two children and a serving as medical examiner for the state and Carrie Pollock Kiefer ’55. She was a grandchild. She was a member of Delta of Virginia. He was predeceased by his member of Delta Gamma sorority. Delta Delta sorority.

42 | OWU wife of 43 years, Betty, his two brothers, ’79, grandchildren, great-grandson, sister, a granddaughter. He is survived by his wife, and two sisters. He is survived by his two and many nieces and nephews. She was a sons, daughters Marcia White Soldatos ’77 children, four grandchildren, and five great- member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. and Cynthia Gudeman, eight grandchildren, grandchildren. He was a member of Tau and eight great-grandchildren, including Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Michael Kevesdy ’50, of Sandusky, Katherine White Arendt ’98. He was a Ohio, Dec. 6, age 96. Describing himself member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Arthur Ritter Jr. ’49, of Haddon Heights, as “deliriously alive” and “ecstatically N.J., Jan. 15, age 93. He was predeceased American,” Michael served in World War II, Paul Finical ’51, of Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 12, by his wife of 53 years, Shirley, and three where he received the Silver Star, Bronze age 92. He is survived by his wife, Emily, two of his brothers. He is survived by his son Star, and Purple Heart. He was a lifelong children, and five grandchildren, including and two daughters, six grandchildren, one learner and excellent public speaker. He Stephan Finical ’84, Charles and Paula great-grandson, and a brother. He was a was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Finical Murphy ’79, and Matthew Murphy member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Stella, his parents, and three siblings. He ’08. He was elected to Pi Delta Epsilon and is survived by his three daughters, four Alpha Epsilon Rho honoraria while at OWU grandchildren, and a sister. He was a and was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi 1950s member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. fraternity. Doris Baker Blackmore ’50, of Troy, Ohio, Sept. 30, age 91. She was predeceased Dean Temple ’50, of Fredonia, N.Y., Sept. Nancy Harter Green ’51, of Delaware, by her husband, James, two daughters, 30, age 95. He was predeceased by his Ohio, Nov. 14, age 90. She met her late and sister. She is survived by her son and parents, Dean Temple 1919 and Grace husband, William Green ’49, while they daughter, and multiple grandchildren. She Pittman Temple 1920, uncle Horace worked at Bun’s Restaurant in Delaware. was a member of Beta Sigma Phi sorority. Pittman 1920, wife Margaret Geyer Nancy was active at the Asbury United Temple ’50, as well as his daughter, Methodist Church, tutored with Delaware Margaret Boehringer Campbell ’50, sister, brother, and grandson. Dean met City Schools, and volunteered at the of Fairlawn, Ohio, Nov. 10, age 90. She Margaret at OWU, where he cooked for Hocking Valley Welcome Center. She graduated from OWU as a member his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, to pay for was predeceased by her husband and of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society his education. He is survived by his three her daughter, Marcia Green Clark before teaching at Highland High School children, grandchildren, and four (soon ’77X. She is survived by three children, for almost 20 years. She and Loren, her five) great-grandchildren. seven grandchildren, and many great- husband of 68 years, enjoyed many grandchildren. She was a member of Delta years of playing bridge with their friends. Richard Timmons ’50, of Phoenix, Ariz., Delta Delta sorority. Ellen is also survived by her children and Dec. 3, age 92. He had a career as a general grandchildren. She was a member of Alpha practitioner/family practice doctor, Erman Lamb ’51, of Avon Lake, Ohio, Jan. 1, Xi Delta sorority. eventually becoming a physician for pilots age 90. He dedicated the first part of his before retiring in 2014. He is survived by career to the restaurant industry, hosting Thomas Cecil ’50, of Dayton, Ohio, July his wife of 31 years, Donna, three children, patrons such as President Eisenhower and 21, age of 92. He was predeceased by his two stepchildren, many grandchildren Walt Disney, before driving a tow motor parents and sister Nancy Albrecht ’47. and great-grandchildren, three brothers, until he was 75. He was predeceased by his He is survived by sister Martha Stauffer including James Timmons ’61 and Robert wife of 54 years, Miriam Kirk Lamb ’51, and ’53, brother David Cecil ’55, and multiple Timmons ’50, cousin Mary Sykora ’62, and sisters, including Martha Lamb Baker ’50. grandchildren. He was a member of Delta many nieces and nephews, including Jill He is survived by his three sons and two Tau Delta fraternity. NOTE: There was Timmons Kennedy ’64, James Timmons grandsons. He was a member of Sigma Phi an error when this item appeared in the ’92, John Timmons ’82, and Poe Timmons Epsilon fraternity. Winter 2020 issue. We apologize for the ’82. He was predeceased by his parents, error. Donald Timmons 1922 and Mary Poe Jean Hagberg Ambler ’53, of New Bern, Timmons 1922, brother Frank Timmons N.C., Oct. 10, age 89. She taught in the Ann “Mitzi” Gellhaus Jackson ’50, of ’52, aunt Margaret Timmons Reed ’29, Ohio public school system in Cleveland Shaker Heights, Ohio, Nov. 22, age 91. She uncle George Poe ’42, cousin Ruth Nolze is survived by her husband, James, sister, for over 30 years before moving to North Cobb ’40, and a foster brother. Richard Carolina to pursue her love of sailing with Barbara Gellhaus Dellinger ’56, son James, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. daughter Susan, and two granddaughters. her husband, Bob. She was preceded in She was a member of Kappa Kappa death by Bob, her brother, and parents. Jean Nicholas White ’50, Memphis, Tenn., is survived by her son, sister-in-law, niece, Gamma sorority. Oct. 14, age 94. He served in the South and nephews. She was a member of Delta Pacific in the battles of Guam and Iwo Mary Jo Kennedy ’50, of London, Ohio, Gamma sorority. Jima, where he was one of the two Jan. 26, age 91. For 33 years she led a career survivors in his company. He and his wife, as a business education teacher in high Edward Davis ’53, of Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 21, Marjorie, attended OWU after the war, schools. She was predeceased by her age 88. He was a lifetime member of the giving birth to their son, Nicholas White husband, William, and her brothers. She is Telephone Pioneers of America, a member II ’70, there. He was predeceased by his survived by her son and daughter-in-law, parents, Nicholas and Lucile Chatterton of the First United Methodist Church, and Douglas Kennedy ’77 and Candy Kennedy White 1919, brother James White ’42, and a member of the Washington Yacht and

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Country Club. He was preceded in death Joanne Robinson Pérez ’54, of Little Rock, Jennifer Dickson Kantonen ’58, of by his wife of 60 years, Anne, and his Ark., Oct. 24, age 88. She was predeceased Asheville, N.C., Nov. 10, age 83. While at brother. He is survived by his daughter by her parents, brother, and grandchild. OWU she not only met her husband, and family, as well as nieces and nephews. She is survived by her husband, daughter, William Kantonen ’58, but her best Edward was a member of Sigma Chi son, and granddaughter. friends, known as “The Committee.” fraternity. Jennifer was predeceased by her sister and William “Bill” Apel ’56, of Portsmouth, brother. She is survived by William, her Cynthia Brown Kane ’53, of Jamesville, Ohio, Dec. 9, age 89. He played OWU three children, nine grandchildren, and two N.Y., Nov. 20, age 88. She led a life of baseball and football and was drafted great grandchildren. She was a member of service as president of the Junior League by the Philadelphia Eagles, but Bill chose Pi Beta Phi sorority. and coordinator of volunteers at the to coach and mentor to high school Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. athletes. He was predeceased by his wife Ronald Leibman ’58X, of New York She was predeceased by her husband, of 57 years, Betty Lu, and is survived City, N.Y., Dec. 6, age 82. Born in New Tom, and her sister. She is survived by by his daughters, including Molly Apel York City, Ronald followed his dreams Glockner ’80, grandchildren, including her twin brother, four children, and many of working in theater, traveling across Martin Glockner ’09, and many nieces and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She the Midwest and joining various improv nephews, including Otto Apel ’67. He was was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma troupes. He made his Broadway debut a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. sorority. in the 1960s as Peter Nemo in Dear Me, The Sky Is Falling. Ronald won a Tony Susan Courtright Ludwig ’56, of David Dean Shobe ’53, of Lewes, Marion, Ohio, Dec. 18, age 85. She was award in 1993 for leading actor in Tony Angels in America Del., Dec. 2, age 88. He continued his predeceased by her parents and brother Kushner’s , his 10th education in international relations at the John Courtright ’51. She is survived by Broadway play. In filmography, he played University of Chicago. He served in the her husband, son, daughter Laura Ludwig a variety of roles ranging from humorous U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, later Tiberi ’80, and grandchildren. She was a to dramatic. He appeared in Norma Rae, becoming a public affairs officer for the member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. opposite Sally Field, an Oscar winner for Department of State and living in cities her performance; Slaughterhouse-Five; across the globe. When David returned Nancy With Merrill ’56, of Canton, Ohio, and television shows such as Kaz. Ronald to the U.S., he was involved in furthering Dec. 28, age 85. She was predeceased also appeared in the iconic show Friends educational and financial advancement for by her sister, brother, and husband of 51 as Rachel Green’s father, Leonard. He New York’s Pratt Institute, the Civil Rights years, George. She is survived by daughter is survived by his wife, Jessica Walter, Movement, the Arthritis Foundation, and Linda Merrill Casey ’87, son, and six his stepdaughter, and a grandson. He is more. He was predeceased by his wife grandchildren. She was a member of Alpha survived by cousin Lewis Shomer ’59. of 60 years, Nancy, and is survived by his Gamma Delta sorority. Ronald was a member of Beta Sigma Tau three children, Stephen, Christopher, and fraternity. Helena. He was a member of Phi Delta John Long ’57, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., Theta fraternity. Nov. 1, age 84. After OWU he entered a Homer Adams ’59, of New Port Richey, military career with the Navy, graduating Fla., Oct. 18, age 82. He was a teacher, Carol Maneely Walker ’53, of Burnsville, in one of the first classes from the Navy guidance counselor, and dean of boys in Minn., Oct. 22, age 88. She is survived Underwater Swimmer School in Key West, Parma, Ohio. Homer also was involved by her husband of 64 years, Donald, a Fla. He later attended dental school at with the Ohio School Counselors daughter, son, and grandchildren. Carol Georgetown University and maintained Association and in developing educational was a teacher and an active member of a practice for 30 years in California. He television. Homer was predeceased by his her United Methodist Church. She was a was predeceased by his parents, including parents and two sisters. He is survived by member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Helen Long ’32, and uncle William Rogers his two brothers, three sisters, and nieces ’26. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, and nephews. He was a member of Tau Douglas Applegath ’54, of Midland, Kit, his two sons, siblings, and cousins, Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mich., Nov. 2, age 87. While at OWU, including John Rogers ’60 and W. Leslie Doug worked as property manager of Rogers ’55. He was a competitive swimmer Carolyn Nutter Kraft ’59, of Centreville, Beta Sigma Tau, his fraternity. After and a member of Phi Gamma Delta Md., Dec. 26, age 81. She is survived by her graduation, he was hired by Dow Chemical fraternity at OWU. son, Andrew Kraft ’83. Company and remained at Dow for 37 years, lending him experiences such as Edith “Edie” Weisman ’57, of South Bend, Mary Pryde ’59, of Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 4, transferring to Tokyo, Japan, and authoring Ind., Oct. 5, age 84. She is survived by her age 82. She was preceded in death by her four U.S. patents and many published husband, David Weisman ’57, and two parents, first husband, and a son. She is technical articles. Doug was predeceased sons. Edie and David met the first day of survived by her husband, William, sons, by his wife, Anne, his parents, and three chapel their freshman year due to their daughter, and multiple grandchildren and siblings, including John Applegath ’57. He matching surnames. They married two great-grandchildren. She was a member of is survived by his three children, Susan weeks after graduating from OWU. She Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Applegath Beach ’81, Charles, and Kathryn, as well as six grandchildren. was a member of the OWU Tower Society and Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

44 | OWU John Thatcher ’12. He was a member of Pi restaurant and catering businesses, and 1960s Lambda Phi fraternity. contributed to his community and church. Roger Auker ’60, of Bradenton, Fla., Nov. 19, age 81. Roger led a career in education, He is survived by his three children and serving as a coach, athletic director, Raymond Zambie ’61, of Cedar Park, three grandchildren. He was a member of and assistant principal at high schools Texas, Dec. 5, age 80. He earned his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. in Medina, Ohio. Roger is survived by MBA at Michigan State University and his wife, Ann Heiges Auker ’60, sons, worked in the treasury department for Robert Craig ’68, of Albuquerque, N.M., grandchildren, and siblings. He was a several companies. He was predeceased Oct. 19, age 73. Robert earned his Doctor member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. by his brother, Allan, and is survived by of Ministry degree from McCormick his wife, Sylvia, three children, and five Theological Seminary. During his rich Barbara Acklin Jenks ’61, of Valley grandchildren. He was a member of Sigma career, he served with President Clinton on Grove, W.Va., Oct. 26, age 80. She led a Phi Epsilon fraternity. a White House commission and as pastor career in education as a middle school of First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, teacher, student affairs administrator at Thomas Sisko ’62, of Bridgeport, Conn., Ind. He is survived by his wife, Sharon Kenyon College, and psychologist in the Jan. 7, age 79. He was a veteran of the Hughes Craig ’68, daughter, son, and counseling center at the University of Korean War and was a software engineer grandchildren. Robert was a member of Pittsburgh, still counseling after leaving and teacher. He is survived by three nieces. Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Pitt. Barbara is survived by her companion, Martha Starkey, her three children, and Nancy Clark Smith ’62, of Chevy Chase, James Cushing ’68, of Westmont, Ill., grandchildren. She was a member of Alpha Md., Jan. 9, age 79. She taught English in Dec. 18, age 73. He led an exciting life of Gamma Delta sorority. Beirut, Lebanon, and traveled extensively travel, racing Formula V Lola race cars, throughout the Middle East, South sales, photography, and teaching. James is William Knoble ’61, of Rocky River, Ohio, Asia, and Europe. She is survived by her survived by his wife of 40 years, Marilyn, Oct. 11, age 80. He was predeceased by his three daughters, four stepchildren, three and his three daughters, including Laura wife, Lindsey Taylor Knoble, and is survived grandchildren, her brother, and niece. Geis ’91, and siblings, including J. Caleb by two sons, granddaughter, brother, and Cushing ’65. He was a member of Phi sister. He was the mayor of Rocky River Veronica Virtue ’62, of Golden Valley, Gamma Delta fraternity. from 2001 to 2006 and was a member of Minn., Oct. 21, age 79. Veronica received Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. her master’s in sociology from Columbia William Allin ’69, of Greenville, University. She worked as a skilled S.C., Dec. 6, age 72. He attended Pace Mary McCleary Posner ’61X, of Columbia, therapist and social worker for seniors, University School of Law and had a Mo., Oct. 26, age 80. After OWU, she married couples, assault survivors, and career in banking, eventually founding led an extensive career as president of more. The U.S. Army commended her Greenwood Capital Associates and Posner McCleary, Inc., an international considerable abilities and outstanding cofounding Dividend Asset Capital in firm specializing in management performance of duty. South Carolina. He is survived by his wife, consulting with universities, law firms, Hazel, his children, and grandchildren. and corporations. Mary served on the Nancy Lee Ely Hicks ’63, of International Trade Committee and Hendersonville, N.C., and Dallas, Texas, Hollace Drake ’69, of Storm Lake, Iowa, cofounded the Memorial Day Weekend Nov. 25, age 78. She is survived by her Jan. 7, age 72. She was a dedicated teacher Salute to Veterans Corp., an educational husband, Alexander, and daughters her whole life, helping children with company. She was predeceased by her Mischelle Miller Raftery ’88 and Christina special needs in public schools, teaching husband, Allan, parents, and brother. She Ely Miller ’94. as an adjunct at the University of Iowa, was a member of Delta Delta Delta and and serving as a professor at Buena Vista served on OWU’s Board of Trustees from Joan Clark Stewart ’63, of Seattle, Wash., University. She is survived by her children, 1975 to 1984. Sept. 13, age 78. She is survived by her Nicholas and Cameron, her sisters, husband, Douglas, her three children, including Mari Schatz ’75, and a grandson. Marlene Schenck Sheppard ’61, of Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 11, age 81. She was seven grandchildren, siblings, and a large predeceased by her husband, Charles, extended family. Richard Gallagher ’69, of Elyria, Ohio, and is survived by her daughters and son, Nov. 4, age 72. He was an avid multisport and cousins Audrey (Blue) Jones ’56 and Edward Guthrie Jr. ’66, of Houston, athlete and, while on the OWU football Martha (Blue) Fitzgibbons ’61. She was a Texas, Dec. 29, age 75. He enjoyed golf, team, was named an All-American and public educator for 30 years and an avid travel, volunteer work, and time with his played for OWU’s conference-champion sewer, artist, and book lover. She was a family. He is survived by his wife of 53 team. He led a rich career of teaching and member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. years, Betty Plaggemier Guthrie ’66, two coaching, and later founded Erie Industrial children, and his sister. He was a member Maintenance Inc. Rick is survived by his George Thatcher ’61X, of Mount Liberty, of OWU’s Tower Society and Delta Tau wife of 46 years, Sandy Seel Gallagher ’70, Ohio, Oct. 1, age 80. He was predeceased Delta. their children, granddaughter, and siblings. by his parents, stepmother, and sister. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, two Claude “Skip” Hinsley ’67, of Oro Valley, children, and five grandchildren, including Ariz., Nov. 1, age 73. Skip traveled, led

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an advocate for people with mental Carolyn Donaldson Feuer ’85, of 1970s Glenview, Ill., Dec. 5, age 56. She is survived David Gardner ’71, of Canton, Ohio, illness and physical and developmental by her husband, Mike, two sons, and Nov. 11, age 70. David was president and disabilities, and he formed the Jon siblings. chief executive officer of Alfred Nickles Peterson Special Needs Scholarship Bakery Inc., a business started by his Program, allowing parents of children with grandfather and now one of the largest disabilities to access additional special William “Michael” Frame ’87, of independently owned bakeries in the education programs. He was a member of Lewisburg, Pa., Oct. 8, age 55. He is U.S. He served in the U.S. Air Force for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. survived by his mother, three children, and two years during the Vietnam War before his sister. joining the family business. David led a David Gibson ’77, of Oberlin, Ohio, Nov. yearly entrepreneurship class at OWU 16, age 65. He was predeceased by his Linda Gillmor Gable ’87, of Powell, Ohio, and is recognized by current students mother, and is survived by his wife, Lorna, Dec. 12, age 54. Her volunteer work focused as a favorite guest lecturer. He was their children, and his father and brothers. on helping pregnant teenagers and on predeceased by his father, David Gardner David was masterful at the art and science delivering meals during the holidays. She ’48, the previous president and CEO, and of baking, running his family’s 134-year-old was predeceased by her parents, including his mother, Marie Nickles Gardner ’47. He bakery, Gibson’s Bakery of Oberlin. Paul Gillmor ’61, and is survived by her is survived by his wife of 48 years, Susan daughter, Brenda Gable ’15, a sister, three Rinehart Gardner ’73, brothers Ernest Cynthia Heeremans Greer ’77, of half-brothers, and two aunts, including Gardner ’73 and Philip Gardner ’74, sister Leicester, N.C., Sept. 25, age 64. Cynthia Dianne Gillmor Krumsee ’67. Mary Gardner Slee ’76, children Christian attended the University of Barcelona and graduated with honors in Spanish and Molly, grandchildren, and niece Emily Blair “Doug” McMillin ’88, of Aspen, translation. She later moved to North Slee ’16. He was a member of Delta Tau Colo., Dec. 10, age 54. He made a living in Carolina and became a sanctioned Delta fraternity. construction and enjoyed photography, teacher of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition sailing, and woodworking. He was Apprenticeship Program, a form of Jana Siman ’72, of Twinsburg, Ohio, predeceased by his parents and is survived Peruvian shamanism. She is survived by her Nov. 8, age 69. Her career propelled her by his wife, Chrissy, their four children, children, Alison and Brian, grandchildren, to New York City, where she worked as and his two siblings. He was a member of and sisters. an international marketing executive for Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Avon International, Estée Lauder, and International Gold Corporation. She later 1980s attended the Yale School of Nursing, 2000s Storey Johnson Hart ’82, of Montclair, N.J., Amanda Beasley-Donahue ’01, of Marion, became an adult nurse practitioner, and Nov. 20, age 59. After a career in magazine Ohio, Oct. 6, age 40. She is survived by her lectured occasionally at her nursing alma advertising sales, she raised her three husband, Todd, her mother and husband, a mater. She was predeceased by her father children and stayed active by volunteering, brother, and grandfather. and is survived by her mother, brother, skiing, fly fishing, and horseback riding. two children, and grandchildren. Storey fulfilled her dream of living in the Peter Svotelis ’01, of Elkins Park, Pa., Sept. mountains of Montana and training horses 26, age 40. He is survived by his parents Jon Peterson II ’76, of Delaware, Ohio, with her husband of 33 years, Douglas and grandmother. Oct. 10, age 65. He is survived by his wife, “Andy” Hart ’80, when they built Aspen Melissa; daughters, Emily and Hannah; Ridge Ranch. She was predeceased by her his father, Arthur Peterson, an OWU parents and brother, and is survived by professor for 15 years; and sisters, Rebecca Andy and her children. She was a member Faculty and Staff Peterson McDaniel ’78, Donna Harr of Delta Gamma sorority. Peterson ’81, and Ingrid Bliss Peterson. He Marguerite Foust, of Delaware, Ohio, earned several honors as an OWU politics Sonnetta Shahid-Sturkey ’83, June 26, at Nov. 6, age 88. She retired from OWU and government major, then received the age of 57. She was predeceased by her after 29 years of service in housekeeping, a Master in Public Administration from sister, Evonne Shahid ’85. She is survived receiving a white Bible signed by students, Florida Atlantic University, a law degree by husband Daniel Sturkey ‘84, cousin Jay faculty, and coworkers. She is survived by from Capital University, and a Master of Hairston ’78, parents, and multiple siblings. her son, daughter, and grandchildren. Sacred Theology from the Methodist NOTE: There was an error when this item Theological Seminary of Ohio. Described appeared in the Winter 2020 issue. We Norman “LeRoy” Honeter, of Ostrander, as “a Renaissance man with a huge heart,” apologize for the error. Ohio, Oct. 30, age 72. He was drafted into Jon led a career in Ohio government. From the U.S. Army in 1968 and served until his start as deputy auditor for Franklin Allyson Cupo Hughes ’84, of Basking 1974. LeRoy then worked for 40 years County in 1980, he rose to serve as chief Ridge, N.J., Oct. 14, age 56. She is survived at the Henkel Corporation in Delaware deputy auditor of Delaware County, by her husband, Owen, her four children, and 10 years at OWU. He is survived by representative and assistant majority whip parents, and siblings. She was a member of his wife, Linda, two children, and several in the Ohio House of Representatives, Delta Delta Delta sorority. grandchildren. and Delaware County treasurer. Jon was

46 | OWU Mary Todd, of Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 26, age 72. She worked in food service at OWU.

Mary Zwick, of Summerfield, Fla., Dec. 9, age 95. She worked for the Department of Natural Resources, OWU, the Methodist Theological Seminary, and more. She was predeceased by her husband, Herman Zwick, and is survived by her three sons, and many grandchildren and great- grandchildren Sympathy to Jack McKinnie ’54 for the loss of his wife, Board of Trustees at Ohio Wesleyan University Jean McIntyre McKinne, of Westlake, OFFICERS OF THE BOARD LIFE TRUSTEES Ohio, Oct. 27, age 88. Jean worked in the William Blaine Jr. HON ’89 commercial law department at Picklands John Milligan ’83 | Chairperson Jean Fitzwater Bussell ’69 Mather, and she was a member of the Nick Calio ’75 | Vice Chairperson George H. Conrades ’61 League of Women Voters and an elder at Patricia Belt Conrades ’63 Bay Presbyterian Church. TRUSTEES AT LARGE Evan Corns ’59 Doreen DeLaney Crawley ’91 Douglas H. Dittrick ’55 Joyce Hartweg Mannis ’61 for the loss of Jason Downey ’02 Andres Duarte ’65 her husband of 47 years, the Rev. Jedediah Daniel Glaser ’82 William E. Farragher ’49 Mannis, of Harvard, Mass., Sept. 9, age 74. Aaron Granger ’93 Lloyd Ferguson ’62 Edward Haddock ’69 Robert W. Gillespie ’66 Joan Worthing ’73 and Cathie Worthing Jack Luikart ’71 Maribeth Amrhein Graham ’55 Helfand ’75 for the loss of their father, Michael McCluggage ’69 Michael Long ’66 Jurgen “Jerry” Worthing, of Wantagh, N.Y., Kevin McGinty ’70 Jack McKinnie ’54 Oct. 29, age 95. Colleen Nissl ’72 Phillip J. Meek ’59 C. Paul Palmer IV ’96 Carleton P. Palmer III ’64 Brooke Ann Barthelmas Larger ’76 for the Thomas Palmer ’69 Kathleen Law Rhinesmith ’64 loss of her mother, Jane Barthelmas, of Anand Philip ’00 Helen Crider Smith ’56 Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 29, age 91. Frank Quinn ’78 James D. Timmons Sr. ’61, P ’92 George Romine Jr. ’67 Tom Tritton ’69 Donna Bodner ’77 for the loss of her Tom Simons ’88 mother, Susan Potoma, of Parma, Ohio, Katherine Boles Smith ’71 GRADUATING CLASS TRUSTEES Nov. 29, age 87. Kara Trott ’83 Daud Baz ’17 Bradley Kendall ’88 for the loss of his Guillermo Gutierrez ’18 TRUSTEES FROM mother, Grace Fullarton Kendall, of THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 23, age 82. EAST OHIO CONFERENCE OF THE Jan Baran ’70 UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Rick Doody ’80 TRUSTEE Peter Eastwood ’91 Robert Hickson ’78 Andrea Hedrick ’86 Martha Nunn Lewis ’83 OTHER CONFERENCES OF THE Craig Luke ’85 UNITED METHODIST CHUCH Vikram Malhotra ’87 TRUSTEE Cynthia Carran O’Neill ’81 Myron F. McCoy ’77 Ellen Simpson ’77 Kenneth B. Sternad ’77 EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Tracie Winbigler ’87 Rock Jones Shadman Zafar ’94 Tracy Malone

Gregory Vaughn Palmer

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Ohio A prayer for Wesleyan Retention, budgets, course curricula, OWU Magazine asked recently retired Chaplain Jon Faculty allotments sought and fought, and help us Powers to send us his thoughts—and perhaps a Sabbaticals approved but ne’er quite done, Make the CASE prayer—upon his retirement. We happily publish his Daily lectures mined from minds distraught words below. With trivial distractions overwrought ne of my fondest memories of my beloved life By trustees, donors, parents – press against mentor and dear friend, Rev. James Leslie, who The very genius of our common cause, was Ohio Wesleyan University’s chaplain from And so we pause to ponder why we’re here: O1960 to 1988, is that he would send me, periodically, his witty and winsome prayers offered at monthly faculty meetings. The mere audacity of what we saw Jim always said that monthly prayer was among the When formed our goals in 1842 most difficult things he ever had to do as a university To be a light of learning on this hill chaplain, because it caused him to pause each month Until our children of the church, and far beyond and seriously, prayerfully consider the full weight of In other faiths, and far off lands abroad, Ohio Wesleyan’s commitment to our 1842 Charter: Would center here under our tutelage “…the University is forever to be conducted on the To shape their minds, their lives, indeed their world! most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations, and designed for the benefit of our citizens in general.” O Holy God of liberal learning’s hope, In 1988 I assumed that prayerful responsibility We cope with all the hassles of our day of Chaplain Leslie with full acceptance of that academic covenant. I immediately discovered the In order to be faithful to the way full burden of that monthly responsibility to pray Of long-term visions formed before we came, for the WHOLE Ohio Wesleyan University by And long-projected hopes for days to come: way of my monthly prayer for the faculty. Give us the grace to be a faculty For 31 years, I also found this to be the most Firm and fruitful in this sacred trust difficult demand of me as a university chaplain. It was a bit like doing my weekly children’s Shalom. Salaam. Namaste. Amen. sermon at nearby Asbury United Methodist Church: One must be mindful of the diverse Chaplain Jon Powers developmental levels of the various children (faculty, staff, student reporters) who are present, even as one must be reconciled to the reality that only one particular level of developmental awareness can be adequately addressed here is one such example that may well remind for any given lesson/ each of you of a moment in your own life at faculty prayer. our beloved OWU. It is with such Oh, wait! An even more important prayer sensitivity and angst from me was that which I offered each that I approached Baccalaureate, which I now offer to every one every monthly faculty of you who are OWU: meeting. There is no one prayer over the I love you! I honor you! past 31 years that totally I thank God for you! reflects my love, care, and devotion for you all, but —Chaplain Jon Powers

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