Spring 2006

AlumniThe Alumni Magazine of the University of Portico

In this issue

Get acquainted with President Beverley Pitts, whose inauguration is slated for March 29. Page 24

‘Backward thinking’: Students hope experiential history puts them on promising career path. Page 28

Indiana’s only master’s degree program in nurse-midwifery awards its first diplomas. Page 21

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Table of Contents 4 10 22 24 Upcoming Alumni Central PT doctoral The right president alumni events Your University of Indianapolis student earns at the right time national honor Get your “passport back to alumni online connection is up Dr. Beverley J. Pitts, fast campus,” and join us for and running and ready for you Deborah Silkwood-Scherer, approaching her March 29 Alumni Weekend 2006. And to register. Check it out now! a faculty member at Central inauguration, hopes she will don’t forget Alumni Day at the Michigan University, has been prove to be what her seven Indianapolis Zoo or the trip to recognized by the American predecessors were: the right Switzerland & Northern Italy. 12 Hippotherapy Association. president at the right time. President’s forum It’s official: the University of 8 Indianapolis has a distinctive 23 28 Colts, University Recent alumni “new” nickname. Backward thinking events community team up seen as key to to help vet Pack-the-House Night, the future ‘Graduates of the Heart’ 13 Professor Greg Clapper, also This Indianapolis Business Alumni Dinner Theatre, and The department beat a chaplain in the Air Journal feature explains how Alumni Night at the Pacers— The news of our schools and National Guard, relates how students hope experiential were you there, or did you departments includes the first an Iraq vet from Montana history will put them on a miss all the fun? degrees offered by the nurse- came to visit Indianapolis. promising career path. midwife program (page 21).

On the Cover University of Indianapolis president Dr. Beverley J. Pitts will be inaugurated as the University’s eighth president on March 29, 2006. She assumed her duties in July 2005. See page 24 to learn more about President Pitts and the events planned during the inauguration.  PORTICO spring 2006 Blast from the past 2005–2006 As part of the University Heights United Alumni Association Methodist Church Centennial fun, a pair of Board of Directors unlikely guests joined worship services: J. T. Cindy Blackburn Bickel ’94 ’98, Roberts, the University’s first president (1905– President 08), and his wife, Alva. Theatre prof Jim Ream Brian Martin ’88, President-elect and Marsha Hart assumed the roles, joining Oscar Gardner ’74, the services in character. Mrs. Roberts used a Immediate Past President cast-iron skillet to show kids how our lives are Lora McCormick ’97, Secretary seasoned by experiences; the president spoke of Roberta Brooker ’74 the transforming power of faith and education. Haldon Cole ’54 The couple then shared a duet of one of J. T.’s Suzanne Smith Davidson ’02 favorite hymns, “Glorious Things of Thee Are Michael Deemer ’98 Spoken.” Centennial committee member Ken Gretchen Craft Fox ’93 Hottell ’62 “can be credited (or blamed) for Mustafa Guven ’99 inviting us,” Jim says. “It was an enjoyable Mariel High ’99 experience to play the part of someone who had Greg Hill ’74 such an influence on so many students, faculty, R. Jeffrey Irvin ’65 and church members. I appreciated getting to Nick LaGuire ’04 Longtime professor of Theatre Jim Ream and know Dr. Roberts through archive documents, Kelly Dunwell McWilliams ’91 Marsha Hart assume the roles of the University’s which included a text of one of his speeches, Marvin Pavlov ’98 memories, and eulogies from family members. Jamie Melfi Shellenberger ’90 first president, J. T. Roberts, & wife, Alva, who are We were quite nervous before the service, but Shariq Siddiqui ’96 greeted by Rev. Mark Dwyer, pastor of the UHUMC. seeing many former faculty, administrators, and Kelli Carr Silcox ’97 ’98 students helped us relax and enjoy the morning.” Amber Harrison Stearns ’95 Vicky Swank ’78 ’80 ’99 David Swift ’72 Todd Sturgeon ’94 Gilbert Taylor ’58 Jim Wernke ’80 ’87 30 33 Portico John Winkler ’63 Sports Update Class Notes We are pleased to share this quarterly Amy Buskirk Zent ’58 alumni magazine with parents of After a successful fall season, Catch up on classmates and students and other friends of the the University of Indianapolis some of our more than 20,000 University of Indianapolis. Nondiscriminatory found itself atop the Great other alumni, like Herschel Policies Lakes Valley Conference Grose, who at 84 is back to University Editor The University of Indianapolis All-Sports standings. And teaching chemistry to a new R. Peter Noot ’77 ’84 does not discriminate on the Ken Partridge ’58 is planning generation of students. Art Director basis of race, color, gender, age, to retire after four decades as Jeannine R. Allen religion, creed, sexual orientation, the Greyhounds’ coach. 46 Assistant Director, marital status, or ethnic or Leadership, Publications national origin in any of its 32 loyalty, service Jennifer L. Huber program offerings or employment Portfolio The University is grateful for Director, Alumni Relations practices. The University is Scholarship funding is essential the leadership and support Monica M. Woods committed to the spirit and letter of the Rehabilitation Act of to achieving the University provided by its distinguished Alumni Relations Coordinator 1973 and the Americans with mission, and students who are Board of Trustees. Jay Starks Disabilities Act and strives to helped often help others in Class Notes turn after graduation. provide equal access to all phases Lindy Wildman ’06 of University life and activity. Contributing Writers Mary Atteberry Scott Hall Please address correspondence and address changes to the Office of Alumni Relations.

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Friday, June 9 C l a s s o f 1 9 5 6 5 p.m. Reception R e g i s t r a t i o n & Schwitzer Student Center Alumni Welcome Center 6 p.m. Class Picture Noon–4:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Reunion Dinner Richard E. Stierwalt Alumni House $20 per person Make this your first stop when arriving on campus. Class members from 1956 will celebrate a golden Remember where old Buxton Hall was? You’ll now anniversary. Contact cochairs Leo Waynick (lwaynick find the new Stierwalt Alumni House, built with you @aol.com) or Marlene O’Dell ([email protected]). in mind. Pick up your Alumni Weekend registration packets and room keys for Central Hall if you are staying on campus. Enjoy beverages and snacks and Saturday, June 10 tour the facility while you reconnect with old friends. Registration / Alumni Welcome Center 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Registration Schwitzer Student Center Atrium 4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. Schwitzer Student Center Atrium Alumni staff will be on hand to answer all your questions and help make your visit back to campus Didn’t make it to campus early? Anytime a memorable one. Registration packets and Central after 4:30 p.m., come to the Schwitzer Student Hall room keys will be available. Center to pick up your registration packet for

June 9–11,the Friday–Sundayrest of the weekend. Fifty-Year Club Breakfast 8 a.m.–9:15 a.m. C l a s s o f 1 9 4 9 Schwitzer Student Center, Dining Hall 6 p.m. Reunion Dinner $6 per person Schwitzer Student Center Come to enjoy a hot buffet breakfast and be a part of an $20 per person exclusive audience: alumni who have been graduated Class members from 1949 will gather to catch up fifty years or more! This event is open to all graduates of on days gone by. Contact chair Don Fleener ’49, 1956 and prior years and serves to officially induct the Class of 1956 into the Fifty-Year Club. (317) 784-8259 or [email protected] 1956 Class Memorial Service Class of 1951 9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. 6 p.m. Reunion Dinner Schwitzer Student Center, Orville McCleary Chapel Schwitzer Student Center $20 per person The class of 1956 will remember the deceased members of their class and honor their surviving Class members from 1951 gather to celebrate their spouses during a special memorial service. 55th class reunion and share a lifetime of memories. Contact cochairs Wayne H. Smith, (revwmsmith2@ compuserve.com) or Harold McPherson (sti4535@ Professional Advisory Panel 10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. blackfoot.net). Schwitzer Student Center Free Our third annual advisory panel, a free service to our visiting alumni, will consist of University faculty, alumni, and Indianapolis-area professionals

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Honors and Recognition Dinner 6 p.m. registration; 6:30 p.m. dinner; 7:15 p.m. program; 8–8:45 p.m. dessert/coffee reception Dining Hall & Schwitzer Student Center Atrium $20 per person This annual event honors those who have distinguished themselves through their profession, community service, and service to the University. All alumni and guests are welcome to celebrate the achievements A l l - A l u m n i P i c n i c & of the honorees. Awards to be presented include the Overnight Free Outdoor Concert Distinguished Alumni Award, Gene and Joanne Sease Accommodations Dogs Gone Wild! Award, Honorary Alumni Award, Distinguished Young 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Alumni Award, and Certificates of Achievement. Also Friday, June 9; $6 per person before June 9; $7 on site recognized will be the outgoing directors on the Alumni Saturday, June 10 Outdoor tent between Schwitzer Student Center and Association board as well as immediate past president Central Residence Hall, Ruth Lilly Center for Health and Fitness Cindy Bickel ’94 ’98. Visit the alumni Web page for on campus more information about these awards. Move-in help available Calling all Greyhound grads! Bring the whole family for a free outdoor concert featuring Indianapolis’s from noon to 4:30 p.m. own Dog Talk. This five-member band knows how to Sunday, June 11 on Friday

energize an audience with their dynamic and diverse O p e n F o r u m & $19 per person per night sound combining funk, Latin, New Orleans, jazz, and Alumni Worship Service Registration deadline: May 26. reggae. With four albums behind them and having University Heights United Methodist Church No refunds on or after June 5. performed before more than 1,700 audiences, Dog Adjacent to campus across from Good Hall Talk attracts listeners from all ages with their fun and positive music. Whether you graduated last year Join alumni as they celebrate their faith together or decades ago, you’re sure to have an experience and honor those alumni who have passed away to remember. All alumni, friends, and family are during the previous year. welcome. Those classes celebrating milestone reunions are ’01, ’96, ’91, ’86, ’81, ’76, ’71, ’66, Forum Presentation ’61, ’56, and ’51. 10 a.m. Fellowship Hall, UHUMC lower level Richard E. Stierwalt Marlene O’Dell ’56, now retired and living in New Alumni House Hospitality York City, will give a narrative of the people she has Noon–4 p.m. met and the rich experiences encountered all over the world in her former role as deputy representative of In between the many events on campus, make time the International Atomic Energy Agency’s New York to visit the University’s alumni house. Refreshments City office at the United Nations. will be available. The Class of 1956 is encouraged to gather at 2:30 p.m. for additional fellowship time. Worship Service Sanctuary, UHUMC Class of 1956 Choir Rehearsal 11 a.m. 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Schwitzer Student Center The Rev. Leo Waynick ’56 will deliver the sermon, Trustees Dining Room titled “The Saints Go With You,” with several classmates participating as greeters, servers, choir To prepare for their performance at the Alumni members, and in other roles. Worship Service the following day, members of the class of 1956 will gather for a choir rehearsal.

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Senior Salute: Honoring the Class of 2006 New secure registration Sunday, April 2, 2006 via Alumni Central, Primo’s Banquet Hall, Indianapolis your online connection: 6 p.m. reception; 7 p.m. dinner; 8 p.m. program http://alumni.uindy.edu Free to the Class of ’06 students; $20 for guests

This much-anticipated event planned by and for the class of 2006 is sure to be a memorable evening. This event serves as a significant transitional event for students as they graduate, join the workforce, and become members Alumni of the Alumni Association. The Student Alumni Association will offer a visual presentation of campus memories, News and the Showalter Outstanding Future Alumni Award will be bestowed on one deserving senior.

Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-Marathon Alumni Tent Saturday, May 6, 2006 T-shirt orders received by April 1 will be shipped to you Military Park, in time to wear during the race Free pre-race bag storage, post-race reception, Sponsored by Brian Gootee ’03, owner of and finisher photo Gray Goat Sports (formally Gilles Fitness), Advance registration by April 1; participant T-shirt 5439 US Highway 31 South; (317) 780-4828; (optional), $10 www.graygoatsports.com University alumni, faculty, staff, students, families, and friends who are running, walking, or attending the Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-Marathon and 5K race are invited to visit the Alumni Association’s tent in the rest and recovery area at Military Park. While you are competing, alumni volunteers will watch over your valuables. After the race, meet your UIndy friends and family at our alumni tent for post-race beverages and energy-replenishing food, and get your free digital finisher’s photo to celebrate completing the largest half marathon in the .

University of Indianapolis Mini-Marathon Participant T-shirt Order Form

First & last name: UIndy grad year(s): Guest name: UIndy grad year(s): Shipping address: City: State: Zip: Daytime phone: ( ) E-mail:

Quantity Adult size, circle one T-shirt S M LG XL XXL @ $10 each = $ T-shirt S M LG XL XXL @ $10 each = $ Total = $

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Mail with payment by April 1, 2006, to University of Indianapolis Alumni Association, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46227-3697; (317) 788-3295; [email protected]

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Alumni Day at the Indianapolis Zoo Saturday, August 19, 2006 Fees—Combo Pass to Zoo & White River Gardens 10 a.m.–3 p.m. includes buffet lunch, all-day beverages: Adults, $27; Lunch service from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. seniors (62+), $23; children (2-12), $17; infants, free. Calendar Education Suite inside the Zoo Or Buffet lunch & all-day beverages only (for those who at a glance Where: Indianapolis Zoo & White River Gardens already have Zoo tickets or Zoo memberships): Adults, $16; 1200 West Washington Street, Indianapolis seniors (62+), $16; children (2–12), $10; infants, free. Sunday, Fees, discounted for alumni, include either the alumni buffet lunch and unlimited beverages or the combo April 2, 2006 admission pass to the Zoo and White River Gardens plus the alumni buffet lunch and unlimited beverages. Senior Salute: Honoring Beverages will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. A buffet lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Menu includes tossed salad and dressings, assorted pizzas, breadsticks and cheese sauce, chicken strips, Italian the Class of 2006 sausage submarine sandwiches, assorted desserts, and non-stop sodas and water. Visit indyzoo.com for directions, parking fees (parking is not included), hours of operation, show times, and more. Saturday, May 6 Alumni Day at the Zoo Registration Form Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-Marathon Alumni Tent First & last name: UIndy grad year(s): Guest name(s): UIndy grad year(s): Friday–Sunday, Address: June 9–11 Alumni Weekend City: State: Zip: Daytime phone: ( ) E-mail: Saturday, August 19 Adult (13–61) Senior (62 yrs+) Child (2–12) Infant Alumni Day at the Combo Pass (Zoo/Gardens/Buffet) @ $27 @ $23 @ $17 free = Indianapolis Zoo Buffet only @ $16 @ $16 @ $10 free = Total remitted $ Saturday, September 30 Check Enclosed VISA MC Discover American Express Homecoming Extravaganza Key Stadium – – – exp date Name on card: Friday–Saturday, October 5–13 Mail with payment payable to the University of Indianapolis Alumni Association, 1400 East Hanna Avenue, Alumni Trip to Switzerland Indianapolis, Indiana 46227. Registration deadline August 4, 2006; no refunds on or after August 11. & Northern Italy

Alumni Trip: Lakes & Mountains of Switzerland & Northern Italy Thursday–Friday, October 5–13, 2006 For more details of these

$1,799 per person (tentative fee, double/triple occupancy, plus government taxes) and other events, check out Included features are: round-trip air transportation, seven nights’ accommodation in first-class hotels, buffet breakfast daily, round-trip ground transportation transfers between airport and hotels via deluxe motor coach, luggage handling the alumni event calendar and related tipping, local government and hotel taxes, professional guide service, and complete preflight information. at http://alumni.uindy.edu, and then register via Alumni Dramatic mountains and serene lakes combine for a perfect blend of stunning scenery in two of Europe’s most picturesque areas. Admire Switzerland’s beautiful Lake Lucerne crowned by Mount Pilatus, with visits to the Central, your online connection. medieval city of Lucerne and the popular resort town of Interlaken, or enjoy a train journey on the famous Jungfrau Railway. Discover the treasures of Lake Como, Italy, an area surrounded by exotic flowers, historic villas, and pretty lakeside villages. Travel to Lake Maggiore, where you can explore the village of Stresa and the extravagant Borromeo Palace. Contact the Alumni office to request a promotional brochure.

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Finals Week Dessert Diversion reception in the Stierwalt Alumni House. Alumni December 13, 2005 gave their testimony as to why the University’s program is one of the most coveted in the Midwest.

Meet-the-Master Opportunities February 21 & 23, 2006 World-renowned artist and 1994 honorary degree recipient Master Au Ho-nien was in the US providing Alumni two opportunities for alumni and friends to meet News him, learn about his inspiration, and enjoy his At the Stierwalt Alumni House, students enjoyed demonstration of ink brush painting. Meet-the-artist taking a break from studying for semester I final events took place February 21 at the Master Au exams. Alumni served up their delicious homemade Ho-nien Museum at the Schwitzer Student Center, desserts—a “slice of home”—demonstrating in a and February 23 at the Art Institute of Chicago. personal way their concern about students’ academic success. Sponsored by the Student Alumni Association. ‘Graduates of the Heart’ Alumni Dinner Theatre Check out photos of these Pack-the-House Night & Saturday, February 25, 2006 and other recent events at Alumni Chili Supper Alumni couples assembled in Schwitzer Student http://alumni.uindy.edu. January 21, 2006 Center for a memorable evening at the Department of Theatre’s dinner theatre production. The couples, spanning several generations, left the University with more than a diploma; they met and married their mate. Couples enjoyed a jazz reception before heading into Ober Dining Hall for a delicious dinner, followed by the student-led theatrical performance of Bedroom Farce.

Alumni Night at the Pacers March 13, 2006 Alumni and friends gathered for a pre-game reception More than 260 alumni and family filled up on a chili at Conseco Fieldhouse’s Pepsi Square, then enjoyed buffet at the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center, then packed a great NBA game as the took on the Nicoson Hall for the women’s and men’s Orlando Magic. teams as they took on St. Joseph’s College. Holding visiting Saint Joseph’s to 21.7 percent shooting in the Phoenix Alumni Gathering opening half, the Indianapolis women’s basketball March 18, 2006 team garnered a 67-52 win. The Greyhounds ran out Phoenix, Arizona to a 24-6 lead in the first half and never looked back. Despite a late run, the men’s team fell to the Great The Midwest met the West as alumni from all over Lakes Region’s top seed and number four-ranked Arizona gathered at the Pointe South Mountain Pumas in a physical game, losing 75-70. Resort to rekindle friendships and learn of other alumni who live in the area. They also came to Doctoral Psychology hear the latest about their alumni association and Alumni/Candidate Reception to meet Dr. Beverley Pitts, the University’s eighth February 17 president. Special thanks goes to host Christina Gartelos ’00. Graduates of the clinical psychology program joined candidates visiting campus from several states for a

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The Alumni Association is your way of staying connected to the University. As a graduate, you are automatically Want to know what’s a member, and many services and benefits are available to you. Contact the Office of Alumni Relations happening in your at (317) 788-3295 or [email protected] for more information about the following alumni benefits. Alumni Association? Get your answers Career Services 24/7 on the alumni Get career guidance and job search help via the Web site at http://alumni. Career Services office and online at Alumni Central. This monthly electronic newsletter is a great way uindy.edu. to receive nuggets of University news. Visit Alumni Locator Service Central to update your e-mail address! Check out ‘Alumni We’ll track down your former classmates and facilitate Central,’ the new your contact while maintaining confidentiality. Community Music Center Discounts online community Alumni enjoy a 10% discount when enrolling a child

Transcript Service in a Community Music Center program. Visit http:// See what’s new in career resources and Available through the Office of the Registrar. music.uindy.edu/cmc/ or call (317) 788-2109. job postings Free T-shirts, Baby Notary Service Sign up to receive the This free service is available during business hours at Notify Portico of your new baby and receive a “future monthly Alumni E-News Greyhound” baby T-shirt. the Stierwalt Alumni House. Send University P o r t i c o Alumni Education Program Web cards Audit a University class, free! Or enjoy a 10% discount Keep up to date on news of your alma mater and on noncredit online courses in various topics via the classmates through your quarterly alumni magazine. Download University School for Adult Learning’s Institute for Leadership desktop pictures and & Professional Development. (317) 788-3393; knave@ Alumni Library Card backgrounds uindy.edu; http://www.ed2go.com/uindy/ Obtain temporary privileges at the University’s

Krannert Memorial Library. View the interactive Ruth Lilly Fitness Center Discounts USA map of where Make the campus your workout headquarters. Fitness Reunions/Social Events our alumni live Center memberships are discounted for alumni. From Alumni Weekend to Homecoming to Indiana Test your knowledge of Pacers games to trips abroad, there is always an the University with an License Plates event to help keep you connected to your friends online trivia quiz Show your UIndy pride (Greyhound plates are and to the University. available to Indiana residents only). See recent alumni Richard E. Stierwalt Alumni House event photos Alumni Awards It’s your building! Come during business hours or Consider nominating a deserving alumnus or alumna special events and check it out. Check out upcoming for one of the seven awards presented every spring. alumni events Visit the Web site for online nomination forms. Get Your Mailing Labels

Create your own Read Portico online Legacy Scholarships personalized, self-adhesive Incoming freshman funds for your immediate family. return address labels and show your University pride!

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Alumni Central is here! Your University of Indianapolis alumni online connection is up and running and ready for you to register.

Some of the great features include: Business Card Exchange—Post business Alumni Directory—Are you looking for contact information to share with fellow a former classmate? Wondering where your alumni and search for others.

Alumni college roommate is now? Create your own Plus much more! News personal profile and search for others, and Wondering how to get started? maintain your privacy with line-by-line opt in/ It’s easy. out of data fields. Go to the alumni Web site at http://alumni. Career Center—If you are looking for a new uindy.edu and select FIRST-TIME USER, job, you can post your résumé for alumni to located on the top navigation bar. view. You can also post a job opening in hopes Next, you will be prompted to provide your of hiring a fellow grad. LAST NAME and your five-digit ALUMNI Class Notes—You can update your records ID NUMBER (on the mailing label on the by sharing your exciting news instantly back page of Portico each issue). with others. Easy search features and photo Once these two items are entered, you will be attachment options are at your fingertips. directed to a registration page. Event Registration—Enjoy this easy and Follow the instructions, and you’re on your convenient way to learn more and register way to reconnecting and staying in touch with to attend alumni events via a secure online fellow alumni! payment system. Online Donations—Whether you have been Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni Relations at giving financially to the University for years (317) 788-3295, 1-800-232-8634,

or would like to be a first-time donor, you will or [email protected]. We can’t

have simple and secure access. wait to see you in Alumni Central! Your Alumni ID is on this

Photos—Share photos with your friends publication’s and view photos from alumni events. mailing label.

Alumni Admission Volunteers in Action Help the Office of Enrollment Management during the upcoming peak recruitment season by volunteering at a college fair in your city! And thanks to the following grads who assisted at college recruitment fairs in their cities during September and October 2005: Chicago, Illinois: Phil Acton ’62, Jason McGary ’99, Quinten Starks ’05, Sandy Peterson ’92 Champaign/Normal, Illinois: Dave Littman ’00, Max Hoffman ’50 Louisville, Kentucky: Angelita Rodriguez-Khanboubi ’02 Cincinnati, Ohio: Angelita Rodriguez-Khanboubi ’02 To volunteer, call the Office of Alumni Relations at (317) 788-3295, 1-800-232-8634. Help is needed most in these areas: Denver, Colorado Milwaukee, Wisconsin Champaign/Urbana and Chicago Arbor Hills, Grand Rapids, and Traverse City, (downtown and suburbs), Illinois Michigan Fort Wayne, Indiana St. Louis, Missouri Louisville, Kentucky Dayton and Columbus, Ohio

10 PORTICO spring 2006 Greyhound License Plate Order Form S t e p u p t o This form is needed for both new and renewal plate applications.

Name(s) as listed on vehicle registration:______t h e p l a t e

______The University Address:______of Indianapolis Greyhound license City / State / Zip:______plate, issued in conjunction with Daytime Phone Number: ( )______the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, is My license branch is:______available to anyone—alumni, faculty, staff, parents, students, and friends. It can be used for passenger cars, recreational My county is:______vehicles, and trucks weighing less than 11,000 pounds.

Send me plate authorization form(s) @ $20 each; = $ . The Indiana BMV will charge an additional $15 at the time (This fee is used to underwrite University of Indianapolis programming. each plate is issued. The $20 paid to the University goes to This portion may be tax-deductible. Always check with your tax advisor.) fund Senior Salute, an annual graduating class event. It also funds the new alumni online community, Alumni Central. Cash Buy a Greyhound license plate and reap Check enclosed (payable to University of Indianapolis) immediate alumni benefits! MasterCard VISA Discover American Express The alumni Board of Directors voted to increase Greyhound plate fees from $10 to $20 and to gift # – – – Exp. / receipt plate authorization form purchases. Through your past support, student programming like the Name on card______annual Senior Salute dinner is possible. With this fee increase, Alumni Central, your online connection, For credit card orders, you may fax to (317) 788-3996. is possible. This new password-protected online community enables you to post résumés, find a job, Return to: register for events, make a donation, create buddy University of Indianapolis / Office of Alumni Relations lists, and shop for alumni services via the business card directory. See page 10 for more information. 1400 East Hanna Avenue / Indianapolis, IN 46227-3697

(317) 788-3295 / [email protected] Here’s how to obtain your Greyhound plate: To order, complete this form. If you have vehicles Check all appropriate boxes: registered in different family members’ names, University of Indianapolis Alumnus/Alumna submit a separate form for each plate requested University of Indianapolis Student/Parent (it’s OK to make copies of this form). University of Indianapolis Faculty/Staff Return this form, $20 payment, and self-addressed, stamped envelope to University of Indianapolis, University Friend Office of Alumni Relations, 1400 E. Hanna Ave., Greyhound Dog Owner Indianapolis, IN 46227. Mail it with your check You don’t have to wait if you want a Greyhound plate. If your renewal month is not until later or phone the alumni office to place an order (MasterCard, VISA, American Express, Discover). in the year, contact the Alumni Office, say you want a plate but later in the year, and we’ll send We’ll return the validated form(s) to you promptly. you a timely reminder. Take the validated form(s) with your other Questions? Call the Office of Alumni Relations at paperwork to your license branch. (317) 788-3295 or 1-800-232-8634. Call or stop by the Stierwalt Alumni House during business hours to get your Greyhound plate authorization form today!

Portspring06 alumni.uindy.edu 11 Goodbye, ‘U of I,’ hello, ‘UIndy’

stature, U of I has been confused with the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa. The beauty of the UIndy nickname solution is that it’s impossible to mistake it for that of another institution, and so it will minimize confusion. As the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts have found with UConn and UMass, You may have seen the item in the Indianapolis Star on a unique nickname is a handy tool when it comes to the morning of February 16. On the recommendation reinforcing an identity. of the University’s Marketing and Communications Naturally, we know that it will be difficult for Committee, your alma mater has a “new” nickname. many to make the transition, and we fully expect to The “UIndy” nickname was introduced five hear alumni and friends continue to use U of I from years ago as part of the University’s highly successful time to time—just as there are those who still refer to capital campaign, and it has been widely accepted as us as ICC and ICU from our Indiana Central days. President’s a shorthand reference, particularly since it also serves We’ll slip ourselves occasionally. And that’s just fine. as our Web address (www.uindy.edu). It takes time for changes such as these to percolate Forum The moniker resonates particularly well with through all our constituencies. students. In fact, when you visit campus, you’ll Our new nickname doesn’t in any way supplant find many students wearing UIndy gear from the our formal name, of course. There will be no changes bookstore, with hardly a U of I item to be found. in business cards or letterheads, though you’ll most It was twenty years ago this year that Indiana likely see the nickname on many of our athletic Central University became the University of uniforms. UIndy will be reserved for more informal Indianapolis, a name change that has been contexts, and would usually be a second or subsequent enormously positive in raising the profile and reference in print. You’ll see it a lot in the pages of prestige of this institution. The name also reinforces Portico (in fact, you may have noticed that you’ve our strong links to the city and commitment to already been seeing it quite a bit lately), because here partnerships and community service. we feel we’re talking to family. As anyone with a long name knows, however, it Though a U of I graphic was never developed, a is impossible to prevent people from using nicknames. couple of versions of a UIndy logo have been created From the time we became the University of for use in merchandising and athletics. We hope you’ll Indianapolis, we also began answering to U of I, like it, and that you’ll help spread the word about UI, UIndy, U of Indy, and a few other variations. your alma mater by incorporating UIndy in your Our initials were often confused with those of IU conversation as well as your wardrobe. and IUPUI. And the University’s growth and success in recent years has meant confusion further afield as well. As our reputation and rankings have risen, and as a number of our programs have gained national Beverley Pitts

12 PORTICO spring 2006 Athletics The department beat The University of Indianapolis is pleased to welcome Goodbye, ‘U of I,’ hello, ‘UIndy’ back Brent Nicoson ’94 as the new head men’s golf Anthropology coach to replace the retiring Ken Partridge ’58 (see Dr. Chris Schmidt coedited a volume to be page 31). Nicoson had been head golf professional published by Elsevier titled “The Analysis of Burned at Royal Oak Country Club in Greenwood, Ind. Human Remains” with Steve Symes of Mercyhurst He is the grandson of the late Angus Nicoson ’42, College. Dr. Schmidt also presented papers at the legendary UIndy coach and administrator. Indiana Academy of Science meeting, the Midwest Bioarcheology and Forensic Anthropology meeting, Athletic Training and the Midwest Archeology Conference. Several Dr. Christine Lauber, undergraduates were coauthors and three additional Campus associate professor, papers were written by undergraduates. completed the Walt Disney Life World Marathon on Art and Design January 8. She and Kirk The University of Indianapolis Department of Art Armstrong ’02 completed and Design is pleased to announce that its bachelor of the race in 4:27.06. fine arts degree program in Visual Communication Design is the first to be accredited in a private university in Indiana by the National Association of Biology Schools of Art and Design. The Biology Department is pleased to announce that Donna Lee Adams ’68 has had her digital Dr. Steve Nawrocki has been named director of the photography included in several juried exhibitions graduate Human Biology program. around the country: at the Visions IX International Dr. Sandra L. Davis and Lynda F. Delph Juried Exhibition in Covington, Ky., September– had their article “Prior selfing and gynomonoecy in October 2005; in September at the 12th Annual Silene noctiflora L. Caryophyllaceae( ): opportunities for Juried Art Competition in Jasper, Ind.; at Backyards enhanced outcrossing and reproductive assurance” and Boulevards at the Frederickburg Center for the published in the International Journal of Plant Sciences in Creative Arts in Fredericksburg, Va., in September; 2005. In October, biology student Laurah Turner and at the Madison National in Madison, Ga., gave a presentation on the “Effects of protandry on August–November. self-fertilization in Saponaria officinalis” at the annual Her work was included in INprint: Photography meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. 2005, an exhibition of Hoosier photographers in the On October 21 and 22, Dr. Mary Ritke, Ransburg Gallery at the University of Indianapolis. Dr. Sandy Davis, and Dr. Timothy Duman She curated Contemporary Printmaking 2006, an (Physics) hosted a faculty workshop, “Integrating international exhibition of nontoxic intaglio, in the Physics, Math, Chemistry, and Biology through University’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Bioinformatics.” Guest instructors came from Gallery in January and February. Truman State University and Beloit College. In Dee Schaad (chair) participated in exhibitions addition to several UIndy faculty, attendees included at the Armory Art Center 7th Annual Ceramics faculty from local high schools and nearby colleges. Invitational, the Figure in Clay in West Palm The workshop was funded primarily by the Institute Beach, Fla., and Skin Deep, a national exhibition for Emerging Careers grant, “Biotechnology with at Francis Marion University in Florence, S.C., that Bioinformatics,” and the BioQuest Consortium. celebrates the variety and beauty of contemporary On February 9, 2006, Barb Burkhardt and ceramic surfaces. Dr. Mary Ritke presented an educational session Professor Emeritus Earl Snellenberger on bioinformatics titled “They’ve Sequenced the participated in the Illustrators exhibition at the Human Genome—Now What Can We Do With Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery in It?” at the annual Hoosier Association for Science October and November 2005. Teachers, Inc. convention.

alumni.uindy.edu 13 Center for In its “Meaningful Work for Older Adults” Aging & Community focus, the Center has secured several national In November 2005, Dr. Ellen Miller, executive speakers for its “Managing the 21st-Century director of the CAC, was honored by the Indiana Workplace” conference, including Dr. Robert Butler, Commission for Women as a finalist in the state’s the gerontologist who coined the term “ageism.” second annual Torchbearer Awards. Dr. Miller was Butler’s keynote address will be on “Living Long, nominated in the education category. Living Well.” CAC will present the Phase II results Graduate Fellow Tamara Wolske ’05 of its study, Gray Matters: Opportunities and Challenges presented Global Issues of Aging as a Fundamental for Indiana’s Aging Workforce, at the conference, which Curriculum at the regional Partnerships for Aging will be held at the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott conference in Indianapolis, November 17–19, 2005. on May 18, 2006. More information about the Campus In November 2005, CAC awarded more than conference can be found at www.cac.uindy.edu/ Life $15,000 in grants to two faculty and three students. A workplaceconference.php. Faculty Research award was given to Dr. Jacquelyn The Indianapolis Star in December 2005 Frank for her study “Ethnicity, Race, and Gender published an editorial by Dr. Spiker on the role older Effects on the Emotional Needs and Information workers can play in stemming the state’s looming Preferences of Spouse and Adult-Child Alzheimer workforce shortage in the construction industry. Caregivers.” An Initiatives in Gerontology faculty In the arena of “aging in place,” CAC is award was given to Dr. Michalis Poulakis ’94 leading an effort to convene aging service providers ’98 ’02 for his work to add an older immigrant and organizations in discussions to develop a educational component to the graduate psychology comprehensive statewide collaborative aging Life Span Development course. Students Jessica conference to be held in late 2007 or early 2008. Brown, Amy Nicley, and Dana Toussant were CAC’s luncheon seminar series, “IN Place,” awarded student research grants. continued in March with a presentation on universal The national convention of the Association design by Mary Jo Peterson CKD, CBD, CAPS, a for Gerontology in Higher Education was held in certified kitchen designer with expertise in universal Indianapolis in February. Several CAC faculty and design. Universal design incorporates concepts that staff members were involved in the planning and improve function and access for every member of a presentation of the conference. Connie Beran household, taking into account the occupants’ age, ’04, academic program director, was the conference size, and abilities. Peterson chairs the 50+ Housing cochair of local arrangements. Dr. Ellen Miller Council’s Continuing Education Working Group and chaired the special event committee. Tamara is a national presenter on the active adult and aging- Wolske ’05 served as the UIndy volunteer in-place market. coordinator. Miller and Beran also presented a Ongoing research projects on aging-in-place preconference session on “Standardization of issues include an Alzheimer’s caregivers’ needs study, Continuing Education in Gerontology.” CAC Senior headed by Dr. Jacqueline Frank; an Alzheimer’s Fellow Dr. Barry Spiker presented “Insights into core services study, a collaboration of CAC and the Business in an Aging Society” and participated in Department of Psychology; and a study on barriers a symposium on “Developing Aging and Business and facilitators to accessing in-home aging services, Case Studies for Infusing Gerontological Content led by Donna Konradi. into Business School Curricula.” Senior fellows Kay Crawford and Helen Dillon presented posters Center of Excellence at the conference. CAC faculty Donna Konradi in Leadership of Learning DNS, RN and Constance McCloy EdD, PT In February Deb Sachs ’78 presented a session titled offered a workshop titled “Joyful Collaboration “The Adolescent Brain: What’s Going On in There?” in Online Education: Effective Outcomes for at the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Students and Instructors.” annual convention. The session helped participants understand the development of the adolescent brain and identify effective strategies for reaching and teaching today’s adolescents.

14 PORTICO spring 2006 UIndy students speak

Check out the University Web site, www. uindy.edu, for a series of videos of students speaking about the University experience in their own words. The comments are arranged by categories: Community, Opportunity, Stories, and Indianapolis. The videos are shot in various locations around campus and include some faculty and staff as well. No doubt they’ll jog a few memories while giving you a snapshot of what campus life is like these days. To bypass the University home page and go directly to the videos, visit http://www.uindy.edu/video/.

CELL hosted the National Advisory Board Chemistry (NAB) meeting in January. The NAB worked Dr. Katherine Stickney and chemistry students extensively with Dr. Beverley Pitts, University Stanley Lashley and Sarah White participated president, regarding the future work of CELL and the in the Canine Express Transport project in January. collaboration with the University. This project involves transporting rescued Indiana CELL staff have given 17 presentations in shelter dogs to humane societies in New Hampshire the past six months, including two at the Phi Delta and Massachusetts. Organized by Cathi Eagan of Kappa annual conference. Ruth Green, senior Indiana University, the project was staffed completely fellow for school evaluation, Brandon Cosby ’95, by volunteers. Nine volunteers drove five vans to senior fellow for high school conversions, and Zora transport 83 dogs for adoption in the Northeast. Ziazi, research associate, presented “Access to Opportunities: The Road Less Traveled to Equity Communication of Outcomes for All Students.” Ruth Green and In December the Reflector won two journalism Mary Jo Rattermann, research associate, awards in the Hoosier State Press Association Better coauthored “Classrooms of Tomorrow Designed Newspaper contest. In the college division, Katy by Students of Today.” Yeiser, managing editor, won second place for best The P–16 Clearinghouse for Evidence-Based sports writing. Lucas Klipsch ’05, last year’s editor- Practices in Learning and School Reform are in-chief, won second place for best feature writing. hosting a free monthly speaker series and educational dialogue through May. National experts share Ecumenical & Interfaith research and information with educators and school, Programs community, and business leaders throughout Indiana. In October Dean Michael G. Cartwright gave Using positive momentum from the conference, the keynote address, “With Ears Tingling and Hearts called Indiana’s Future: Economic Development Enlightened: Cultivating Enriched Imaginations about and the High School Connection, CELL’s State Christian Vocation,” at the Conference on Cultivating Leadership Development initiative hosted a January a Culture of Call at Goshen College. In November event to assist several Indiana school districts in Cartwright gave the Miller Lecture in Practical developing plans to further the high school redesign Christianity at Valparaiso University on “The Problem work in their schools and communities. CELL will of Amnesia in Contemporary Protestant Spirituality.” continue to work on a statewide basis with school Dr. Cartwright also hosted the Regional Gathering of districts to foster high school transformation that the Ekklesia Project at the University of Indianapolis will improve student achievement.

alumni.uindy.edu 15 in November in conjunction with the visit of agrarian Institute for Emerging writer Wendell Berry. Careers, School of Business The Rev. Dr. L. Lang Brownlee has been “History making history,” the IEC mini-grant named the first director of the Youth Ministry program for Experiential History, is making Training Program at the University of Indianapolis. quick progress. Professor Samantha Meigs Brownlee joined the University as interim chaplain in was featured on the cover of the fall edition of the July 2001 and now serves as co-chaplain and assistant Education/Training/Employment Focus section professor of Philosophy and Religion. An ordained of the Indianapolis Business Journal. An article in the clergy member of the South Indiana Conference of IBJ focused on history programs and how they the United Methodist Church, he will assist youth are developing the workforce for tomorrow. Fellow ministry students, oversee adjunct faculty, and mini-grant partner professor James Fuller ’01 Campus develop training opportunities for supervisors from contributed to the article. (See page 28.) Life congregations affiliated with the Youth Ministry Dr. Meigs has been selected as the director Training Program. The program combines classroom of Experiential Learning. She will remain half- study and field activities in area churches, preparing time in the History Department, teach six credit students to work with children and teens in faith- hours of Experiential Learning, and dedicate the based settings and integrating youth as full partners remainder of her time to the direction of this new in the life of the church congregation. program as well as to coordinating a mutually beneficial relationship with . English Dr. Meigs envisions it as an interdisciplinary Kyoko Amano’s article “Horatio Alger’s Shadows program with academic tracts featuring in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres” was published in anthropology, theatre, and communications. the fall 2005 issue of Critique. Dr. Leslie Gardner is on sabbatical this Tara Johnson ’00 ’04 presented a paper, academic year working at Dow AgroSciences. While “Survivor’s Guilt and Trauma in Margaret Atwood’s at Dow, Dr. Gardner will be writing mixed integer Oryx and Crake,” at the Midwest/Modern Language linear programs of supply chains in Global Ag Math Association conference in November. She also Modeling and Analysis department (GAMMA). presented at the Modern Language Association She hopes to develop programs for the purpose of meeting in December. Her paper was titled “Locating maximizing profitability of supply chains for various Sources of Knowledge and Truth in Margaret Dow AgroScience products. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” Johnson received a grant Last fall Dr. Gardner and professor Sheela from the American Library Association to allow Yadav hosted four employer focus group dinners to her to work in partnership with the Indianapolis gain insight in the supply chain arena as they further Marion County Public Library. She will conduct a develop their mini-grant program and plan their May public lecture/discussion book series on prominent conference. These events, organized by IEC student Jewish-American authors on the theme “Fathers and Elizabeth Johnson, IEC director Ron Dow, Daughters in a Changing World” in the fall of 2006. and Graduate Business Programs manager Linda Dr. Elizabeth Weber had three poems Overholt ’05, allowed alumni, business leaders, and published in the fall 2005 issue of you are here: a journal members of the local professional societies to advise of creative geography published by the University of this new program. School of Business associate dean Arizona. The poems are part of a series of poems, Matt Will facilitated the four sessions. “Porthole Views,” written to accompany watercolors Ron Dow, director of the IEC, has been invited by Hazel Stoeckeler. to participate on the Education and Workforce Development Work Group of the new Indiana Rural History and Political Science Strategy. Through Lt. Governor Rebecca Skillman, Dr. Larry Sondhaus wrote three chapters for The the new Indiana Rural Strategy seeks to address key Seventy Great Battles of All Time, edited by world-renowned issues facing rural communities. military historian Jeremy Black and published late in 2005 by Thames & Hudson Press of London.

16 PORTICO spring 2006 Hounds on Wheels

The UIndy Hounds On Wheels organized late last summer. Faculty, staff, parents, students, and friends of the University participated in the initiation ride in late August with a trip through the winding back roads of Brown County and with lunch at the Story Inn. The group also participated in the United Way’s Ice Cream Social. They’re looking forward to warm weather and opportunities to enjoy the camaraderie of fellow motorcycle enthusiasts. To participate, contact Kim Brinkley at [email protected].

Kinesiology Krannert School Dr. Lisa Hicks is president-elect of the Indiana of Physical Therapy Association for Health, Physical Education, Dr. Kathy Martin ’90 ’03 had her paper Recreation, and Dance for a three-year term and has “Characteristics of Hypotonia in Children: A been elected to the National Association for Sport and Consensus Opinion of Pediatric Occupational and Physical Education’s Council on Physical Education Physical Therapists” published in the winter 2005 for Children for a three-year term. issue of Pediatric Physical Therapy. Coauthors included The Kinesiology department is sponsoring KSPT graduates Jill Inman ’03, Abby Kirschner “R UIndy Fit,” a fitness program for faculty and staff ’03, Katie Mack Deming ’03, Rachel Gumbel at the University. More than 220 are participating in ’01 ’03, and Lindsey Voelker ’02 ’03. the program, which runs from January to April. In December, 14 students from the Kinesiology Library Club and the sport management program volunteered Dawn Marie Hershberger ’92 ’98 was recently for the Special Olympics State Bowling tournament. named associate director of the UIndy Writing Lab. In November, Dr. Jennifer VanSickle presented “Emotionally Intelligent Leadership in Modern Languages Sport” at the Indiana Health, Physical Education, From December 27, 2005, to January 31, 2006, Recreation, and Dance state convention. In April, Dr. Gerburg Garmann had an exhibition of her Dr. VanSickle and Dr. Christine Lauber will acrylic paintings on display at the Crawfordsville present a poster at the American Alliance for Health, District Public Library in Crawfordsville, Ind. Two Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance national of her poems, “Januar” and “Clocking in,” appeared convention in Salt Lake City. in “in ein anderes Blau” (Lyrische Reihe Edition Students in Dr. VanSickle’s Design and Bauwagen 2005). “Slinking over, Again, to A Bowl Management of Sport Facilities class completed two of Luck” was published in the 2003 Emily Dickinson projects for the Indiana Youth Rugby Foundation Award Anthology Volume Eight by Universities West during the fall semester. The first was a tournament Press, Arizona 2005. director’s handbook for hosting a youth rugby Dr. Michelle Stoneburner ’66 will retire tournaments. The second was a facilities research in June after teaching for 40 years, 32 of them at project in which the students identified potential the University of Indianapolis. facilities around the city for future use by the Indiana Youth Rugby Foundation.

alumni.uindy.edu 17 Music Dennis McCafferty, cello faculty and Dr. Jo Ann Domb (chair) was recently appointed chamber music coach, performed Brahms’ vice president of the National Association of Schools monumental Quartet in A Major for piano and of Music. strings, Op. 26, with Suzuki and Friends at the Dr. Thomas McCauley, assistant professor Indiana History Center in October. NUVO’s Tom and director of instrumental music, was named the Aldridge wrote that “the foursome strode through the 2005 Outstanding University Music Educator by Quartet’s intricate textures . . . with an aplomb born the Indiana Music Educators Association. He was of careful preparation.” In addition to his regular recently featured as guest conductor with the Georgia performances with the New Century String Quartet, State University Wind Ensemble in Atlanta and McCafferty joined Dr. Richard Ratliff to open the Morehead State University Wind Ensemble in the Faculty Artist Series season with Ginastera’s Campus Kentucky. In November Dr. McCauley hosted the Pampeana No. 2. Life 10th annual University of Indianapolis Instrumental Dr. Ratliff’s long-running radio series “Keyboard Conducting Workshop with guest clinician Mallory Kaleidoscope” returns to WICR 88.7 FM in April Thompson, director of bands at Northwestern. 2006 with 17 episodes devoted to the 32 Beethoven Jodi Sowers-Smith ’96 and Dr. Rebecca Sonatas. Several programs will feature Ratliff’s Sorley will perform a lecture performance recital performances on both modern and period instruments. at Indiana University School of Music Indianapolis Lola McIntyre, associate faculty in piano, was on March 30. Jodi will be playing the alto flute with a featured speaker in November at the Indiana Music guitarist Brett Hoag as well as Japanese and Indian Teachers Association convention, where she shared folk music. Jodi also will conduct the flute choir in her use of music technology to enhance private and a lecture/performance recital on April 17 at the group teaching at all skill levels. She was recently Indiana University School of Music Indianapolis. appointed to the executive board of IMTA, where Repertoire will range from Renaissance to jazz. her expertise in pedagogy and technology will help In March 2005 Dr. Sorley presented a lecture expand the rapidly growing IMTA Achievement in piano recital at the Athena Conference at Murray Music Festival. State University titled “The Months of the Year: Dr. Chris Rutkowski’s Passages for clarinet, Piano Perspectives of Fanny Mendelssohn and Judith cello, and piano was featured on the Faculty Artist Lang Zaimont.” She presented a similar program at Series season finale last April in a performance by the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in San Juan, David Bellman, Ingrid Fischer Bellman, and Richard Puerto Rico, in February. Ratliff. Passages was also performed as part of the Jim Beckel’s String Quartet No. 1 was Society of Composers regional conference at Butler premiered by the New Century String Quartet at University in November. To hear Passages, visit http:// the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center last spring. chrisrutkowski.com. Beckel’s quartet was the subject of a preview feature Two animated features scored by Pete column in the Indianapolis Star. Schmutte for Perennial Pictures aired recently in Tom Gerber, music history and Baroque Spain, the United Kingdom, and Norway. Schmutte ensemble, was the featured harpsichord soloist in is assistant professor and director of music technology Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with Maestro and recording. The features are The First Easter and Raymond Leppard at the Gala Opening Concert Christmas Story. of the Faculty Artist Series in September. Last spring Gerber performed selections from Bach’s Physics & Earth-Space Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II during a concert Sciences at the University, and he also performed the entire As a result of faculty/student collaboration, collection on two different harpsichords during a Dr. Steven J. Spicklemire and physics concert at Butler University. student Michael A. Coffaro had a paper published in the American Journal of Physics (2006) titled “The Treatment of Reflections in a Doppler Measurement Using the Method of Images.”

18 PORTICO spring 2006 School for Adult Learning School of Nursing On January 5, 2006, Dr. Pat Jefferson, Laurie Leslie Oleck received the Beverly Richards Daeger, and Dr. John Batey made presentations to Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist Award for 2005. the inaugural Breakfast Academy of the Hendricks Anita Siccardi, director of the Graduate College Network. Nursing Program, presented her research at the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association School of Business conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in May. She also In December, Jerry Flatto and Dr. Leslie presented at the National Gerontological Nursing Gardner presented the paper “Combining Hands- Association in Myrtle Beach in October, and at on, Spreadsheet, and Discrete Event Simulation to the Sigma Theta Tau International Convention in Teach Supply Chain Management” at the Winter Indianapolis in November. The title of her research is Simulation Conference in Orlando, Fla. “Uncertainty in Illness for the Older Adult.” For up-to-date news about the The nurse-midwifery education track in the In November, Dr. Gardner presented the paper University, visit the University “Teaching Students to Win the Beer Game” at the Graduate Nursing Program in the School of Nursing Communications Web site: annual conference of the Institute for Operations graduated its first students in December 2005. The Research at Management Science in San Francisco program also plans to have the American College of http://uindy.edu/news/ and also at the annual conference of the Institute for Nurse-Midwives Division of Accreditation conduct a Decision Sciences in San Francisco. The Beer Game site visit so that the program can become accredited. is a hands-on simulation developed at MIT that demonstrates the information and material flows in School of a supply chain. Occupational Therapy Sheela Yadav and Leslie Gardner presented a The School will host a Graduate School Fair on poster session on “Simulations to Teach Students to Wednesday, April 5, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Win the Beer Game” at the Indiana Logistics Summit Schwitzer Student Center. Call (317) 788-3432 for on October 19, 2005. more information. Sheela Yadav, Matt Will, and Leslie Gardner In November, Dr. Candace Beitman and hosted four roundtable discussions on various aspects Fengyi Kuo presented papers at the International of supply chain management with business leaders Service-Learning Symposium in Stellenbosch, South from the Indianapolis metro area in September and Africa, titled “Service-Learning as Preparation for October in preparation for SupplyNet 2006, a supply Professional Practice” and “Outcome Assessment chain management conference to be held at the to Facilitate Therapeutic Use of Self and Activity: University of Indianapolis on May 13. A Service-Learning Experience in Psychosocial Dr. Terry J. Schindler ’84 was accepted by Intervention Courses.” the Indianapolis Student Government as faculty Dr. Beitman, Dr. Jacqueline Wall (School advisor in November 2005. Dr. Schindler has assisted of Psychological Sciences) and SoPS doctoral ISG in revising their mission and values and in the student Shira Louria presented a paper at the development of a committee chair evaluation form. annual meeting in February of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education concerning School of Education student outcomes related to engagement in an In November Dr. Greta Pennell presented a paper interdisciplinary caregiver wellness program. titled “When [Middle] East meets [Mid] West: Dr. Lucinda Dale, research advisor and Preliminary Analysis of a Summer Study Program faculty, along with Occupational Therapy students for Arab Students” at the annual meeting of the Raeanne Albin ’05, Shelley Kapolka-Ullom Association for Humanist Sociology in Tampa, Fla. ’04, Annjanette Lange ’04, Megan McCann She also was an invited panelist with colleagues ’04, Kacey Quaderer ’05, and Nikki Shaffer from Loyola University and New England College ’02 ’04, published their completed research, titled to discuss the effects and relief efforts related to “The meaning of work in the US for two Latino hurricanes Ivan, Katrina, and Rita along the Gulf immigrants from Colombia and Mexico” in the 2005, Coast. Dr. Pennell was also recently named as chair volume 25, Journal of Work. of the Honors College.

alumni.uindy.edu 19 Dr. Dale and coeditor Dr. Penelope Moyers A former University of Indianapolis psychology completed the new edition of the Guide to Occupational professor with a passion for community service will be Therapy Practice, a major publication of the American remembered each year through an annual conference Occupational Therapy Association. on ethics, values, and human responsibility to be Dr. Dale, along with Dr. Julie Gahimer established by her father through the University’s ’85 (Krannert School of Physical Therapy), Barb School of Psychological Sciences. William Ratliff, Kelly (School of Nursing), and Becki Umbreit a principal owner of the Collateral Companies in (School of Nursing), planned and conducted, with Birmingham, Ala., has donated $100,000 in honor their students, a Health Fair for faculty, staff, and of his daughter, Katharine, who taught behavioral students in November. Nearly 400 attended the fair, sciences at the University from 1985 until her made possible through a grant received by the faculty unexpected death in February 1990, a few months Campus through the Center for Aging and Community and in after the birth of her third daughter. Under terms collaboration with St. Francis Hospitals. of the gift, the donation will be matched dollar-for- Life dollar by the University. School of Psychological Sciences Social Sciences In November Dr. Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford Dr. Bobby A. Potters, assistant professor, gave a presented a poster titled “Family Systems of Elder presentation in February at the first annual Black Care in Longitudinal Perspective” at the 58th annual Leadership Conference at Indiana State University. Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of The conference topic was “Engaging Students in America in Orlando, Fla. She also published the Leadership Success.” article “Theorizing about sibling relationships when parents become frail” in the Sourcebook of Family Theory University Communications and Research. Director Mary Atteberry APR was an invited Dr. Jacqueline Wall, along with Dr. David presenter at the CASE (Council for Support and Wall, adjunct faculty in Psychology, reviewed The Advancement of Education) District VI Conference aging workforce: Realities, myths, and implications for on January 23 in St. Louis. Her topic was “Strategic organizations, and had their article “Not too old to rock Communication: Sending the Right Message to the and roll: Will baby boomers change old age before Right People at the Right Time.” old age changes them?” accepted for publication in PsychCRITIQUES. Dr. Jacquie Wall was named to the editorial University of Indianapolis– board of PsychCRITIQUES. She also was asked to A t h e n s serve as coeditor of the newsletter for Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) of the American UIA celebrates UN anniversary Psychological Association. In addition, she was On October 20, the University of Indianapolis- asked to sit on the Continuing Education Advisory Athens organized a conference to mark the 60th Board for APA and was asked to serve as an objective anniversary of the United Nations. reviewer for the Health Resources and Services The conference, at the UIA Cultural Center Administration Traumatic Brain Injury State Grants in Plaka, was held in cooperation with the Hellenic Program. In May Dr. Wall will serve as a judge for UNA, International Organizations Watch, Hellenic APA at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. Writers Association, European Communication and Dr. Wall also has made a series of presentations Information Network, and Parnassos Literary Society. at the Association for Gerontology in Higher UIA Chancellor Vasilis Botopoulos ’94 Education meeting, the Aging Society of America/ welcomed the many Greek and UN dignitaries National Council on Aging 2006 Joint Conference, who attended and served on panel discussions. The the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education conference was attended by dignitaries from the 32nd Annual Meeting, the Gerontological Society political, academic, and social worlds, among many of America 58th Annual Meeting, and at the others, including students from the UIA and other Partnerships for Aging Conference. Athens universities and colleges.

20 PORTICO spring 2006

Nurse-midwife program awards first degrees

Indiana’s first and only nurse-midwifery master’s degree program, founded in 2003 at the University of Indianapolis, graduates its first students this year. Two students completed their degrees during the first semester, which ended in December, and two more will graduate in the spring after completing research or clinical requirements. Six more students are currently enrolled, and seven others have been accepted into the program. One of this year’s graduates is Lynda Barton- “You try to initiate more of a relationship, Kirch, who plans to open an office and birth center a bond with them,” said Winningham, herself a with another nurse-midwife after obtaining her certified nurse-midwife. “To have more midwives, state license. During her 20-year nursing career, she and to have more moms and babies have access to grew concerned over infant mortality and C-section these programs, is wonderful.” rates and began looking into nurse-midwifery. The Nurse-midwifery is a 2.5-year program northwestside Indianapolis resident was considering in the University’s nationally ranked School of out-of-state and distance-learning options when she Nursing, usually culminating in a master of science heard the University of Indianapolis was starting a degree. Students entering the program must have master’s degree program. a bachelor’s in nursing, an undergraduate GPA of “This was what I was waiting for,” said 3.0, and a year of nursing experience. Barton-Kirch, who worked at Methodist and Indiana has licensed nurse-midwives for more Hendricks Regional hospitals to satisfy clinical than 30 years and now has more than 100, but still requirements for her degree. “The support and trails the national average. Winningham, who chairs positive reinforcement you get at the University of the Indiana’s American College of Nurse-Midwives Indianapolis is not seen everywhere.” chapter, says the idea is gaining ground in the state, The program’s founder and director, noting the recent opening of midwifery practices in Barbara Winningham, said the increasing Terre Haute, Crawfordsville, and Indianapolis. availability of nurse-midwives is a victory Only three percent of nurse-midwife-assisted especially for vulnerable families whose economic births take place at the client’s home; the vast circumstances or cultural backgrounds make it majority occur at hospitals or birth centers. Like intimidating or difficult for them to receive proper other advance-practice nurses, nurse-midwives are health care. Research has shown that the personal, authorized to prescribe medication in outpatient holistic care that nurse-midwives provide to their and hospital settings, and they operate under clients improves the health of women and children collaborative practice agreements with physicians. throughout their lives, she said, not only during To learn more, visit http://nursing.uindy.edu/ the childbearing cycle. msn/midwifery.php.

Journey to Greece Athens Alumni Reunion University President Beverley Pitts and UI Athens UI Athens held an alumni reunion celebration on Chancellor Vasilis Botopoulos have met with Friday, February 10, at the UIA Cultural Center. executives of the American Hellenic Educational and Alumni from all classes were invited to reunite with Progressive Association to finalize earlier discussions each other and with the University’s staff and faculty between AHEPA and University of Indianapolis while enjoying the good food, music, and great officials in Athens over AHEPA’s Journey to Greece company, which made for an unforgettable night. program. The program will bring a group of students Visit the University of Indianapolis-Athens Web to Greece on a summer study-abroad educational site (http://www.uindy.gr/community/alumni/events. venture organized by the University of Indianapolis. html) for more information. The program constitutes the first step toward further strategic alliances between UIA and AHEPA.

alumni.uindy.edu 21 Campus Life

PT doctoral student earns national honor

Deborah Silkwood-Sherer, Central Michigan University faculty member and University of Indianapolis doctoral student, has received a prestigious award from the American Hippotherapy Association, a group that promotes the use of horses as part of therapeutic programs. Silkwood-Sherer, an assistant professor of physical therapy at CMU, received the Barbara Glasow Therapist of the Year Award for her research and her work with student projects focused on hippotherapy. She also was recognized for mentoring prospective and current clients and students with an interest in hippotherapy. “This was an honor to be recognized by my peers and AHA, as I know there were many worthy candidates for this award,” said Silkwood-Sherer. “People who received this before me started the movement of using horses as a therapeutic tool.” Hippotherapy uses the movements of a horse to assist people who have movement dysfunction. The horse’s walk provides riders a “variable, rhythmic, and repetitive” motion similar to that of the human pelvis while walking. Using sensory gauges, the therapist can determine the degree to which the horse riding is helping the patient develop more appropriate motor control strategies. Hippotherapy can help alleviate many conditions, including ailments related to mobility, posture, strokes, autism, learning or language disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries. The process involves a team of individuals conducting the therapy, including a trained horse handler, a therapist, and side walkers to ensure the client’s security. Silkwood-Sherer, currently completing a doctor of health sciences degree at the University of Indianapolis, became involved in hippotherapy by first taking her daughter, who has mild cerebral palsy, to horse riding lessons as a recreational activity. During the lessons, she began watching her daughter’s movements and working with her daughter through the use of the horse. Some of Silkwood-Sherer’s recent research includes work with a client with cerebral palsy whose symmetrical weight bearing and sitting improved. She has also worked with individuals with multiple sclerosis, evaluating clients’ post-hippotherapy balance in comparison to a control group. In the study, Silkwood-Sherer found that clients’ balance improved as a result of using hippotherapy, whereas the balance of individuals in the control group did not change. Both research projects were presented at national meetings.

The photo at top was taken in 2002 as part of a Portico article on hippotherapy by staff writer Jennifer Huber. The Krannert School of Physical Therapy has offered a pediatric specialty seminar on hippotherapy taught by assistant professor Kathy Martin ’90. In December ’05, on the initiative of the University’s Equestrian Club, UIndy students donated unused meal plan funds totaling $18,500 to the Edelweiss Equine-Assisted Therapy Center in Greenfield, owned and operated byElisa Bowen Bell ’92. 22 PORTICO spring 2006 Colts, University community team up to help vet

Editor’s note: Dr. Greg Clapper, a professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Indianapolis serving as a chaplain on active duty with the Indiana Air National Guard, became acquainted with John Bennett (seen here with Colts quarterback Peyton Manning) in the course of his duties and facilitated his visit to Indianapolis. His appeal to the campus community resulted in a number of faculty and staff donating cash and frequent flyer miles to help bring the Bennett family to town. John Bennett had been in the Montana Army National Guard for 15 years when his unit was sent to Iraq at the end of 2004. One month later a sniper caught John outside of his Humvee and hit him in the side of his flak jacket—the place where there are no protective plates. The bullet hit his spinal cord. John was immediately taken to an aid station, then flown to the Army Regional Medical Center Landstuhl, Germany. At that time, I was working temporary duty at Landstuhl as one of the hospital chaplains. I got to know the Bennett family in the ICU and followed John’s progress as he went from Germany to Walter Reed, to a VA hospital in Seattle, and then finally to his home in Cascade, Montana. John ended up being unable to use his legs and is permanently in a wheelchair. As I got to know the Bennetts, I discovered an unusual fact about John—of all things, for a person from Montana, he is an fan. To make a long story short, many people worked to bring John, his wife, and three of their children to see the Colts play on January 1, 2006. It was a special gift that Steve Champlin of the Colts and his assistant, Steffanie, gave to the Bennetts when they allowed them to meet many of the players and even get some autographs. One particular interchange between John and the team, though, will always stay with me, and I want to share that with you. I saw a face familiar from TV come out of the locker room, and I asked Coach Tom Moore, the famous offensive coordinator who helped place the Colts among the NFL’s elite, if he would sign the hat of a man who caught a sniper’s bullet in Iraq. Coach Moore calmly walked up to John Bennett, shook his hand, and said in perfect sincerity and humility, “You are a real man.” He went on to sign John’s hat and exchange small talk, but that first sentence the coach spoke will always stay with me. Here was a man who had seen a liftetime of athletes and celebrities pass through his life, and it would have been easy for such a person to be dazzled by the glitz and glamour of life on a professional football team and lose a larger perspective. Instead, Coach Moore knew what it meant to be a real man, and he was able to name it when he saw it. We are not “real men” when we gain fame in the sporting arena, or because we can wear the most “bling.” A real man is one who loves his neighbor as himself—even to the point of sacrifice. In my Christian tradition, we are most fully human when we love, and “greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Once again, Coach Moore made the right call, even after the game ended. —Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Gregory S. Clapper, 181st Fighter Wing, Indiana Air National Guard

Indianapolis grad made ‘American Idol’ cut

Jim Gearries ’02 survived the regional audition in Chicago for Fox’s wildly popular “American Idol” series and moved on to the Hollywood phase. The 25-year-old SBC sales representative says he appeared in some backstage scenes and was part of a trio singing the classic “Fly Me to the Moon,” but with “a little R&B twist to it,” he says. All contestants performed in a small group as part of the judges’ winnowing process. Unfortunately, he did not make the final 24. While at the University of Indianapolis, Gearries minored in music and performed in Concert Choir and Crimson Express. Though he offers no complaints about his day job, he still pursues singing and songwriting in his spare time, with an eye toward a music career. “My goal is to make as much money doing music as I do now, and then I would do it full-time,” he says.

alumni.uindy.edu 23 The right president at the right time

‘This institution has a history of having the leadership that it needed at the time,

for whatever the next step was, and I have great admiration for

the former presidents and what they’ve done to give me this opportunity’

The weather was behaving badly. Apart from the book. She thought for a moment. “I’d have to say January chill, rain was drenching the University of Rabbit Run, by John Updike. There’s just something Indianapolis campus. Already at 8 a.m. and despite about him and how he can capture the American the downpour, the president’s home was a whirlwind culture in his writing.” of activity as workmen came and went, readying the Reading, she said, is one of her favorite hobbies. home for social events to come. On any other day, “I think I have about seven books piled up right now,” new president Beverley Pitts would be out of the house she confided with a laugh. “I just finished reading a by now, tending to a calendar full of appointments. Sue Grafton novel and a David McCullough book at But today, she was taking a few minutes to reflect the same time,” she added, “which is pretty typical of on her first months on the job and the career that me. I love the escape that literature provides.” brought her here. Love of literature came early. She spent most of She took a seat on a couch next to the fireplace her formative years in Chester, Pennsylvania, though in the full-size basement, a space complete with plenty she attended high school in Anderson, Indiana, where of seating and a wall-mounted TV. “This is a great her father, a Church of God pastor, came to work for space to use when we have student groups over,” she the church press. From the beginning, Dr. Pitts was said, gesturing to the pool table. taught to value education, encouraged to pursue it, Against the wall stood a full bookshelf, and expected to excel at it. She always knew that she prompting the question of which was her favorite wanted to be a teacher.

24 PORTICO spring 2006 “I didn’t know any women doctors or women “When you think about areas in your career,” she college professors,” she said, “but I did know women said, “I have great pride that I helped to start something teachers. I expected to grow up and be a school that is now a strong component of Anderson’s culture teacher, because that’s just what women did.” and history. I also now have great understanding about When she graduated from Anderson High what it means to carry five or six roles as a faculty School, she looked to Anderson University to give her member,” she added. “It keeps you on your toes, but it the training needed to become the teacher she had also keeps you engaged in fun and exciting ways.” always wanted to be. “I can tell you that my career When asked about her career goal after Anderson, The right president path and what has happened to me over the years was Dr. Pitts said that it was to be a full professor. But she never in my wildest imagination when I took that first was looking for a way to broaden her experiences. “I step into college,” Dr. Pitts said. had worked with local papers and as a freelancer, but As an English major at Anderson, Dr. Pitts was I felt that to be an effective college professor, I needed the coeditor of the yearbook and also involved in to work in a national media environment.” journalism. “One of my best memories at Anderson Through a network of friends, Dr. Pitts found was seeing the yearbook come out,” she said with a an opportunity to work with the National Football at the right time smile. “It may seem insignificant, but after putting so League Players Association’s public relations much work into it and then finally seeing the finished department in Washington, DC. “I took a sabbatical product, I felt really proud.” from Anderson and started to work with the Players

After finishing her undergraduate degree, Dr. Association, writing press releases, doing media work, Pitts taught in the public school system during much and working with the wire services,” she said. of the 1970s. She earned her master’s degree in As she learned the world of national journalism, journalism from Ball State University in 1971, and she also discovered that the Players Association had continued to teach “a little bit of everything,” she a need for research. “The Association wanted to said. “I taught high school English and journalism, know what happened to players after they left the along with being the yearbook advisor. I loved game, what the transition was like, and how injuries teaching senior honors English because I got to teach affected them.” the great pieces of literature.” Dr. Pitts and colleague Mark Popovich She became part of the English faculty at Anderson undertook a comprehensive research study that in 1977. “I was hired in the English department because resulted in much media attention. “It was exciting they wanted to start a communications department,” because I was interviewed by ESPN, appeared on the she said. “The English and journalism connection Super Bowl Sunday coverage, was on the front page was there for me, and it was a great opportunity.” The of USA Today’s Sports section, and was mentioned in communications department—journalism, public dozens of newspaper and magazine articles,” she said. relations, telecommunications, speech, and theatre— She has conducted five research studies on took shape just before she completed her doctoral degree players since that time, with the last one completed in 1981 from Ball State in higher education. in 2001. “The entire research experience was an

alumni.uindy.edu 25 interesting part of my career,” Dr. Pitts said. “Sports Dr. Pitts have always been a part of my life, ever since my dad at a glance started taking me to Phillies games when I was little. My husband also likes sports, and my sons like sports, so it’s a natural interest for me.” Family: Married to Bill. A corner curio cabinet in the basement “We were high school confirms that love. Glass shelves hold a variety items, sweethearts,” she said including a signed Colts helmet, a framed picture of with a smile. Has two her husband, Bill, with Tommy LaSorda, and two original tickets from the 1988 World Series. Pointing grown sons and two to a signed picture of Buck O’Neil, Carl Erskine, and granddaughters. “The Kerry Nakagawa, Dr. Pitts explained that it came whole family got together from a Provost’s Lecture Series that she held at Ball at Christmas,” she said, State on the multicultural experience of . “and every single person “Hosting a panel discussion with those three great got a UIndy sweatshirt!” players was definitely one of the highlights of my time at Ball State,” she said. When Dr. Pitts completed her sabbatical with the On Nelson House: “It’s Players Association, she returned to Indiana and had take very seriously. I think it’s important for women in been a real joy to live in an opportunity to work in the journalism department leadership to be mentors to young women and men, the home that was once at Ball State University. “This is where my central and I’m aware that everything I say, everything I do, President Esch’s home. It’s administrative career really got started,” she said. and every interaction is serving that purpose.” a nice connection with the Dr. Pitts held many administrative positions at Dr. Pitts also has a goal for the students. “I want past, and I’m eager to use Ball State, first at a director level, then in the provost’s students to grow into themselves,” she said, “and I office, and finally as acting president of Ball State want them to feel that they are in an environment the home and welcome in 2004. “The real joy of being president is being that is supportive of them, that challenges them alumni, donors, and the able to see the big picture and to see the assets of the intellectually, and also challenges them socially and campus community to University and the investment of so many people over culturally. When they leave us, I want them to be share in it.” the years,” she said. “Each of us sees the world from different people who see the world in a broader way. our own area of responsibility, and it’s the president’s “Sometimes when you’re 18, the world is pretty Favorite travel job to see that bigger picture.” black and white and you’re sure of what you know. I destination: Athens, Since arriving at the University of Indianapolis, hope they leave us seeing the world as more gray and Dr. Pitts says that she has been overwhelmed with not being so sure, but also having the ability, self- Greece, and Istanbul, kind people willing to go out of their way to make the confidence, and background to know how to continue Turkey. “There are so University better. “I’m very thankful that I have this to keep those doors open.” many layers of culture in opportunity to work here,” she said. “I want to learn As she looks ahead to her time here at the places like that,” she said. the culture of the campus and respect the culture that University, she talks about working on the master She someday wants to visit is here and build on that. It’s not the job of a president plan for campus and looking for new opportunities India and Africa. to change an institution; it’s the job of a president to and connections, both on campus and in the move an institution forward. It’s about finding ways to community. “This institution has a history of having open doors to allow the University to grow in its areas the leadership that it needed at the time, for whatever What people may be of strength. That’s the way I think about it.” the next step was, and I have great admiration for the surprised to learn: Looking back on her own college and early- former presidents and what they’ve done to give me “That I have a good sense career experiences, Dr. Pitts wants to make sure this opportunity. of humor,” she said. “I that students, especially women, have a role model “I’m not starting from scratch, but building on really do enjoy humor, a or mentor to turn to. “I really didn’t have a mentor the investment from lots of people. When I leave, good laugh, and not taking at college,” she said, “though I had several faculty I want people to say that I was the right president members who guided me through my work. I think for the right time. People say that about our past yourself too seriously.” it’s typical of women in my generation to help each presidents, and if I can have that same legacy, I’ll other out along the way. But now that’s a role that I be very happy.” —Jennifer L. Huber

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its eighth president with community service projects, The “Passport to the World” travel 1 9 0 2 a special student travel grant program, and a series grant awards were designed as of on- and off-campus events March 28 and 29. part of the festivities surrrounding “Passport to Possibilities” is the theme for the the inauguration of Dr. Pitts. to Possibilities inauguration of Dr. Beverley J. Pitts, who joined As stated in its mission, the Inauguratio the University last July after serving as provost and University is committed to fostering n 2006 interim president of Ball State University. “Passport “international relationships and programs to Possibilities” includes subthemes, with “Passport that promote intercultural understanding, awareness, to the World” travel grants and “Passport to and appreciation,” as well as “a campus culture that Service” projects in Fountain Square neighborhood. embraces and celebrates human diversity.” In keeping with the passport theme, full-time In that spirit, the “Passport to the World” grants students enrolled at the University or its Athens offer a select number of students the opportunity to campus will vie for one of the 10 “Passport to the travel internationally, with the University’s affiliated World” grants of $4,000 each to cover travel and sites in Belize, China, Greece, Israel, South Africa, and housing costs for a learning opportunity in the Taiwan serving as natural springboards to cultural country of one of the University’s affiliated overseas exploration. The host sites are campuses, which will serve as a sort of home base for Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, the students traveling there. Republic of China The inauguration festivities begin the evening Galen University, San Ignacio, Belize of March 28, when President Pitts and her family Mar Elias University, Ibillin, Israel enjoy dinner and a program with students in the Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang dining hall of Schwitzer Student Center. University, Ningbo, People’s Republic of China The following morning, busloads of students, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa staff, and faculty will participate from 9 a.m. Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, to noon in a range of service projects honoring Republic of China the University motto, “Education for Service.” University of Indianapolis-Athens, Athens, Greece Most activity will be in the Fountain Square University of Indianapolis (available to students neighborhood, five miles from campus, where enrolled at the University of Indianapolis-Athens) the University has been deeply involved in community development. ‘Passport to Service’ Dr. Pitts will host a private lunch for winners Students, staff, and faculty will volunteer for service of the inaugural travel grant competition, their projects in nearby Fountain Square on the morning of families, and international delegates who will the investiture. Several organizations will participate: be participating in the late-afternoon investiture St. Patrick’s Church (painting basement, hall) ceremony. In addition to its branch campus in Concord Center (food drive; deliveries) Athens, the University has relationships with Fletcher Place (food pantry, thrift store, universities in Belize, China, India, Israel, preschool, breakfast/sack lunch) and Taiwan. Lilly Boys and Girls Club (touch-up The investiture ceremony, including the painting, weeding) inaugural address, is March 29 in the Ruth Lilly Salvation Army (interior painting) Performance Hall of the Christel DeHaan Fine Keep Indianapolis Beautiful (cleanup) Arts Center. Afterward, participants and the Second Helpings (organizing deliveries) campus community will gather in the Schwitzer IPS #20 (painting, planting pansies) Student Center for an hors d’oeuvres reception that IPS #28 (gardening) will feature a visual presentation highlighting the Southwest Umbrella Organization University’s overseas affiliate campuses. (clean-up of English Avenue)

alumni.uindy.edu 27 ‘Backward’ thinking seen as key to future

Students hope experiential history puts them on promising career path By Chris O’Malley Students may present history to museum guests. Indianapolis Business Journal Reporter Or they may work behind the scenes, filtering through actual historical artifacts. More than ever, Now here’s a way to stoke Indiana’s economy in the technology has allowed better preservation, archiving 21st century: Put on a 19th-century dress and bonnet and retrieval of artifacts and historical data. and start churning. One vehicle to travel back to the future is an As counterintuitive as it sounds, “experiential interdisciplinary minor in applied history. A number history” is one of seven key careers, besides usual of universities already offer such programs. UIndy suspects like logistics and bioinformatics, that are the launched such a degree this fall, with internships focus of the University of Indianapolis’ Institute for at nearly a dozen institutions, from the Benjamin Emerging Careers. Harrison House to the NCAA Hall of Champions. No, drug testing of college faculty isn’t among “You’re working with world-class organizations the emerging careers. that are doing the actual work,” said James Fuller, The institute was formed last year with a a professor of history at UIndy and one of the $750,000 Lilly Endowment grant. It aims to stem the masterminds of experiential learning at the IEC. so-called “brain drain” of Indiana’s college graduates The way Fuller sees it, the minor involving to other states in search of work—in part by pointing experiential history is not just for history majors but them in the direction of promising careers in their also for those in any discipline, including business. own back yards. For example, learning about how a city was planned UIndy professors say there’s logic in looking and the outcome could be valuable for a student aft to see over the bow, although the economic pursuing a degree in urban planning. A student might development benefits aren’t readily apparent. go to a site to see how a road was designed in the old Shaping this new career field starts with moving days and analyze what worked and what didn’t. college students beyond book knowledge and lectures The same goes for how goods were moved in into a setting in which they experience history. It may the old days. be in a bonnet-wearing internship at that 19th-century “You could even learn supply chain manage- bastion Conner Prairie in Fishers, for example. ment lessons,” Fuller added. “Students can be Lately, one of Elee Wood’s students has been exposed to a variety of skill sets. You’re not just interning at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, learning names and dates in history. This does have demonstrating to schoolkids how American Indians a much broader application.” made a number of household items. Experiential history helped UIndy history major “The way that we learn best is in real, authentic Letha Howard envision other career possibilities. experiences,” said Wood, assistant professor and “Most people assume that history majors are public scholar of museums, families and learning at going to teach history after they finish their degree, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. but there are so many other opportunities,” she said. The downtown university for years has offered more Howard conducted research at Conner Prairie. advanced degrees involving experiential history.

28 PORTICO spring 2006 D r. Samantha Me igs, who teaches experiential ‘Backward’ thinking history at the University of Indianapolis, also serves as an interpreter at Conner Prair ie seen as key to future Pioneer Settlement.

“I was encouraged to ask questions and to find Dow looks at it this way: To the extent the my own ways to solve problems,” she said. region develops a strong base of college grads honed That skill applies in any career. by experiential history, the more museums stand to Conversely, students have helped museums succeed. Strong museums improve the city’s cultural become more relevant. Tech-savvy students may create appeal—and potentially make it more attractive to a DVD for a museum, giving its guests additional companies thinking about locating in central Indiana. resources and an enticement to return. Students bring Greg Schenkel, president and CEO of the to museums fresh ideas and trends that museum economic development group Indy Partnership, management can overlook amid its daily grind. agrees that cultural assets are lures. Students steeped in experiential history might Factors such as taxes and the overall cost of doing later make good candidates as corporate archivists or business remain paramount, but “the overall cultural in community outreach, said Wood, who works part- amenities are becoming more and more important time at the Children’s Museum. from that quality-of-life issue,” Schenkel said. But experiential history also can better prepare For instance, can a company convince top students for careers with the region’s many museums, executives to move here? And is the city attractive said Ron Dow, assistant director of UIndy’s Institute enough to lure job candidates from other cities? for Emerging Careers. “Are they going to want to live here or would they There are at least nine museums in the rather live in Chicago? We can’t get them here solely Indianapolis area alone, with newcomers such as the on the basis of economics,” Schenkel added. “A lot of NCAA’s Hall of Champions along the Central Canal. these people expect a good opera, a good museum.” “Miami may have ‘millionaires’ row,’ but And oddly enough, some historical institutions Indianapolis has ‘museum row,’” Dow said. are becoming agents for corporate change. Over Those museums themselves have become the years, Conner Prairie has hosted events for economic development engines, Dow added. companies designed to improve team-building Increasingly, these institutions offer more skills in an historical setting, such as preparing interpretive delivery of history rather than static food, said Jane Blankman-Hetrick, guest advocate displays. They include the , at the museum. where new president and former Conner Prairie She remembers how a company where she once head John Herbst has emphasized more worked brought its team leaders to the museum to interpretive delivery. assess how well they could get along. Among those are music, plays and re-enactments More formal programs are now being of Indiana historic figures such as entrepreneur and developed,” said Holly Rice, a sales manager at social activist Madame C. J. Walker. Conner Prairie. “We have discussed projects such “Not a lot of people like to come in and listen to as completing 1800s tasks/chores as teams, cooking, a lecture,” said Michael Burrows, communications games such as building mini cabins,” and so on. coordinator for the state museum. “We’re competing Said UIndy’s Dow of experiential history against all forms of entertainment.” careers: “This has a bottom-line economic impact.” As for how the region’s economy could benefit from a work force steeped in experiential history, the Copyright (c) IBJ Corp. 2005. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with cause and effect is a little more tenuous. permission. Note: “UIndy” originally was “U of I” throughout.

alumni.uindy.edu 29 Hounds succeed on playing field, in classroom The University of Indianapolis Department of Athletics is proud to announce that its student-athletes recorded a collective 3.14 grade point average for the fall 2005 semester. Topping the list was the women’s tennis team, amassing an impressive 3.67 semester GPA while winning the Great Lakes Valley Conference title for the second straight season! Fourteen teams had a fall GPA above 3.0. As for cumulative grade point average, the women’s Dennnis Reinbold (left) with the IRL’s Sports basketball team carries the highest GPA among the Sarah Fisher 19 varsity sports, sporting a 3.61 overall mark. Update Dennis Reinbold named Another Academic All-American! 2006 Bertram Award Winner Senior soccer player Michelle Sovern was named The 14 NCAA Division II member institutions of the to the ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA All-Academic Great Lakes Valley Conference have selected former Third Team, giving Indianapolis 27 Academic Greyhound student-athlete Dennis Reinbold ’83 as All-Americans in the 2000s, third-most among the recipient of the 2006 Dr. Charles Bertram Alumni Division II institutions. The Greyhounds have had Award of Distinction. Reinbold was a member of the 39 Academic All-Americans overall, with 38 Greyhound baseball team. coming since 1993. An Indianapolis native, Reinbold grew up less Varsity teams with cumulative grade point than a mile from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. For up-to-date Greyhound averages above 3.0 are as follows. Having spent his entire career in automotive retail, sports coverage, visit he is the principal of Indianapolis-based Dreyer & Reinbold, Inc., which owns six BMW, Volkswagen, http://athletics.uindy.edu/. S P O R T Fall 05 GPA and Infiniti dealerships in the Indianapolis area. The Women’s Tennis 3.67 operations enjoy one of the highest customer loyalty rates in the country and are among the highest in Women’s Basketball 3.61 BMW market penetration in the country. Fulfilling his love for driving racing cars, he Women’s Soccer 3.55 founded Dreyer and Reinbold Racing in the Indy 3.48 Racing League in 1998, which he co-owns with driver Robbie Buhl, and employs the league’s Women’s Cross Country 3.47 three-time most popular driver, Sarah Fisher. A member of the 500 Festival Committee, Women’s Golf 3.47 he serves on several national and international Women’s Swim/Dive 3.46 business advisory committees. A former pitcher for Indianapolis, Reinbold continues his love of sports as Men’s Golf 3.39 a Little League baseball and basketball coach for his children. He also plays in adult baseball leagues, and Men’s Soccer 3.17 his wife, Jennifer, is a professional tennis player. Baseball 3.13 The Bertram Award is based on academic excellence, athletic ability and achievement, Men’s Tennis 3.13 character, and leadership of former GLVC student- athletes who have served their institution with Men’s Swim/Dive 3.05 personal distinction since graduation. The award was Softball 3.02 presented on March 5 during halftime of the GLVC men’s basketball championship game at Roberts Men’s Cross Country 3.01 Stadium in Evansville, Ind.

30 PORTICO sSprPRingING 2006 Hounds atop All-Sports standings! CollegeSwimming.com National Collegiate After a successful fall season with a GLVC champion- Swimmers of the Week for their performances ship, a second-place finish, and a third-place finish to December 28, 2005, to January 8, 2006. They its credit, the University of Indianapolis currently sits were selected by a panel of collegiate coaches. atop the Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Sports Shane Perkey was added to the University of standings. The Greyhounds racked up 62.5 points Indianapolis wrestling all-time win list when he in the fall with Southern Indiana a close second, just beat Campbellsville University’s 2005 NAIA .5 points behind. Northern Kentucky (60) and SIU national qualifier Kaci Payne in a 9-2 decision on Calendar Edwardsville (58.5) rank third and fourth. January 21 at the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center. Seven sports are included in the current totals: Senior backer Michelle Sovern was named to the volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross 2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America April 27, 2006 country, women’s tennis, women’s golf, men’s soccer, Women’s Soccer College First Team, comprising Senior Buffet and women’s soccer. 11 of the top student-athletes selected by the Nicoson Hall/Schwitzer Indianapolis captured its second consecutive College Sports Information Directors of America Student Center GLVC women’s tennis title in October to give the at Division II, III, and NAIA instiutions. Hounds 12 points in the All-Sports standings. The volleyball team ousted #1 seed Rockhurst in The Greyhound volleyball team took home the GLVC tournament semifinals to advance to June 30, 2006 second place in the conference after advancing the title match against SIU Edwardsville. all the way to the league’s title match. The UIndy Freshman Keith Evans and junior Joey Navarro Greyhound Club women’s golf team snared a third-place finish at the claimed individual titles in the 125- and 285- Golf Outing championship meet to garner 10 points. pound weight classes, respectively, at the Little Otter Creek Golf Club The All-Sports Trophy is awarded annually to State Championships in Terre Haute in December. the GLVC school that accumulates the most points The University of Indianapolis is host to the among the 17 conference sports during one academic 2006 NCAA Division II and July 27, 2006 year. The trophy, first awarded in the 1981-82 season, Championships, being held downtown at the Angus Nicoson has been awarded to Indianapolis most recently in the IU Natatorium. The event is the first NCAA Golf Outing 2002-03 campaign and twice overall. Championship event hosted by UIndy. Head The GLVC is composed of 14 member schools Coach Gary Kinkead’s squads will look for Royal Oak Country Club with Missouri-Rolla, Drury, and Rockhurst all new another solid performance, after finishing additions in the 2005–06 year. The conference is one seventh (women) and 11th (men) in the of the largest in all of NCAA Division II. nation last season. Complete standings and sport-by-sport breakdowns of points can be found at the GLVC Web Save the date to celebrate site at www.glvcsports.com. a Greyhound legend! The 2006 spring season will be the final season for Greyhound highlights at a glance head men’s golf coach Ken Partridge ’58. Ken has served as golf coach for the last four decades Ten football players earned All-Academic For more information GLIAC honors (Jason Clinton, Zach Dennis, at the University of Indianapolis. On April 26, the about these events or the Kevin Dietel, Sam Elmore, Jimmy Fleshman, Athletic Department will honor him for his efforts, Greyhound Club, contact Adam Lane, Nick Parker, Bruce Renner, Kevin hosting a retirement bash at Purgatory Golf Club in Matt Donovan at (317) Shaw, and Kyle Stephenson). Noblesville. Come for golf, dinner, and stories—and, Senior midfielder Dusty Shannon was named of course, laugh and have a great time with Ken 788-3359 or mdonovan@ to the National Soccer Coaches Association of and all his friends. The golf event will begin at noon uindy.edu. America’s All-Great Lakes Region Third Team, with a dinner to follow. No gifts, please; just share a leading the Hounds to a 10-6-2 record. round of golf with a links legend! This event is open Check the Athletics Web Eric Nance and Dusty Shannon were each named to the public, but limited to the first 36 teams. For site at http://athletics. to the Men’s Soccer All-Great Lakes Valley more information or to RSVP, please call Associate uindy.edu for up-to-date Conference honorable mention team. Athletic Director Matt Donovan at (317) 788-3359. Greyhound news. Drew Hastings and Alison Smith won national honors, being named the Division II —Mitch Wigness, Sports Information Director

alumni.uindy.edu 31

Scholarship funding essential to University’s mission

Each year, the University of Indianapolis awards How did John help a fellow UIndy student? As $18.5 million in scholarship money to deserving a recipient of the endowed and restricted scholarship, students. It may be institutional money made grant funding is now made available to the next available from the general scholarship endowment student—let’s call her Jane—who has met admission fund awarded to top students on a merit basis, or requirements and has a strong desire to attend the endowed and restricted scholarships and annually University. Jane is an above-average student most funded scholarships funded by alumni and friends. schools would gladly accept and enroll. Luckily, Jane These scholarships allow the University to applied for financial aid, worked with an admissions Portfolio attract and retain outstanding students. They also counselor, and is making final plans for the fall give considerable latitude to the University by freeing semester enrollment. up other funding (nonrepayable state and federal The lives of John and Jane have been affected in grants and loans) for deserving students. a positive way because of the decision made 10 years For example, imagine a young man by the name earlier by two University benefactors. The donors of John, who might qualify for a $2,500 endowed realized the importance of scholarship funding to the and restricted scholarship by meeting the criteria school and to future students. It’s simple: scholarship established by two donors 10 years ago. John does not funding is crucial to our success. have a clue about the donors, who have since died, We encourage alumni and friends alike to think nor does he have any real knowledge about their about ways either to fund an annual scholarship or reasons to endow a scholarship. How could he? John endow a scholarship. Donors may have an immediate was in his early years of elementary school at the impact on the life of a student by funding an annual time the donors worked with the UIndy Institutional scholarship for as little as $2,500. If leaving a legacy is Advancement office to endow a family scholarship. more of an interest, alumni and friends may endow a All John knows is that he will receive $1,250 per family scholarship with an outright gift of $25,000 in semester and may renew the scholarship by achieving cash or securities. a certain grade point average. Should this be a challenge financially, then John remains in the dark on other matters as donors may fund a life-income plan (charitable gift well. He did not know that the UIndy financial aid annuity or charitable remainder trust), thus enjoying administrator, responsible for awarding endowed the financial benefits during life while designating the and restricted scholarships, recognized his eligibility remaining assets to a scholarship at death. Another for the scholarship as a result of his class rank and option, and the easiest, is to remember us in your will. intended major. Thanks to a dedicated financial While you retain your assets until death, a bequest of aid coordinator familiar with the scholarships and $25,000 will ensure your legacy with the University criteria, John and his family will benefit greatly. and empower young men and women in future years. John is unaware that qualifying for the endowed Our young scholarship recipient, John, will and restricted scholarship will help another UIndy have the opportunity to learn more about the donors student he may never meet. Had John not received when he attends the next Donor-Scholar Luncheon in the scholarship funding, the financial aid coordinator the fall. He will meet the surviving family members may have had to award grant money and apply a and hear more about the donors and their years on federal loan to his overall financial package. Both campus, along with their desire to give back to the federal and state grants are a tremendous benefit to University of Indianapolis. John is grateful for what our students. However, we (and other schools) are at the donors have done and the opportunity given to the mercy of federal and state legislators and possible him—and may now be thinking about ways he can funding cuts in grant programs. Although a loan can give back to the University and future students. be a wonderful way to establish credit and pay for —David DeWitt, Director of Planned and Major Gifts tuition, loan repayment is a requirement. (317) 788-3493 / [email protected]

32 PORTICO sSprPRingING 2006 Mary Roberts Brittain Alene Koher Wilcoxon Mary Forst Yenowine Portico welcomes ’37 died December 26. ’38 died on December ’44 passed away October your photos with She was an elementary 30. She was a teacher 6. She was the founder of accompanying news school teacher in Kokomo, at Ashboro, Staunton, Phi Beta Psi, Theta Alpha for Class Notes, to be Warsaw, and Logansport and Van Buren high Theta Chapter. She retired used as space allows. (Ind.) school districts. schools, and retired from the Office of Utility All original photos will Mary is survived by her from Clay Community Consumer Counselor in be returned to you. daughter, Ruth Swanson, School Corporation (Ind.) 1984. She is survived by her Please submit a color and stepsons, Truman and after 22 years. She is husband, Roy Yenowine or black-and-white Clark Kellie. She lived in survived by her husband, ’43, and daughters, Barbara print or high-resolution North Manchester, Ind. Francis Wilcoxon ’41, Grace, Donna Stevens, and and children, Richard Cindy Hendershot. Mary digital image, sent Kenneth “Red” Dorton Wilcoxon, Mary Obringer, lived in Greenwood, Ind. Class as an attachment, to ’38 died November 21. He and Dr. Jane Lawther ’66. [email protected]. taught for 42 years, retiring L. Joan Middaugh Spero Notes Alene lived in Brazil, Ind. Sorry—reproductions from Hartford City Junior ’49 died November 11. of newspaper photos High School in 1978. He Robert Gillan ’39 was She was a social worker at cannot be used. had coached basketball, named the Older Hoosier of Manteno Mental Health baseball, football, and the Year by senior advocacy Center for 30 years, tennis, and was a scuba group CICOA. He works retiring in 1985. She is 1930s diving instructor. Kenneth as a farmer and is assisting survived by her son, Rex, Agnes Clements served in the US Navy in the organization of a stepsons, Ronald and Alan Cramer ’32 died August in the Pacific from 1943 historical museum and Spero, and stepdaughters, 10. She was a teacher with to 1946 as a Lt. JG. He genealogical society in his Suzan Wyche, and Sandy East Allen County Schools is survived by his son, community. Robert lives in Watterbarger. Joan lived in for 21 years, retiring in Kenneth, and daughters, Thorntown, Ind. Bourbonnais, Ill. 1967. Agnes is survived by Carol Ann Fuller, Nancy daughters Carol Pelfrey and John “Jack” Wagner Sutton, and Susan Judith Palmeter. She lived 1940s ’49 died September 28. Schownir. He lived in in Fort Wayne, Ind. Maryellen McKenzie He taught high school Hartford City, Ind. Triviz ’42 died November for more than 38 years, Helen Ringley Brady John Mader ’38 passed 7. She served as a paralegal primarily at DeKalb High ’35 passed away November away December 26. He and an executive secretary School in Auburn, Ind. 26. She taught school for served in the US Army at New Mexico State He coached basketball, 39 years, the last 29 years Air Corps from 1942 to University. She lived in Las baseball, football, and at Westlake Elementary 1946. John owned a private Cruces, N.Mex. Maryellen golf. Jack is survived by his School in Indianapolis as medical practice and served is survived by her daughter, wife, Marilyn, daughter, an art teacher. Helen is as a doctor in Richmond, Rita Triviz. Cindy Koehl, sons, John, survived by her son, Paul. Ind., for the majority of his Chris, and Steve, stepsons She lived in Franklin, Ind. Joe Ann Hamke Meier career. He served as chief ’44 passed away December Chip and Paul Kohler, C. Howard Youngblood of staff of Reid Memorial 9. She was a homemaker and stepdaughter Becky ’36 ’46 passed away Hospital, Richmond, on and volunteer. Joe Ann is Alexander. He lived in October 20. He was a three occasions: 1962–63, survived by her husband, Sylvania, Ohio. retired school principal. 1968–69, and 1975–76. Norman Meier ’43, sons, He is survived by his In 1988, he received the Dennis, John, Roger, Keith, 1950s wife, Mary Trimmer Paul Rhodes Award for Bruce, Phillip, Ronald Donald ’51 and Hilda Youngblood ’36, Humanity in Medicine. John Meier, and daughter, Nancy Campbell Dow ’52 and daughters, Becky is survived by his children, Waltz. Joe Ann lived in celebrated their 50 years Youngblood and Jean Suzanne Borgmeier and Greenwood, Ind. of marriage on October Talbott. He lived in Mark Mader. He lived in 15. The couple lives in Columbia City, Ind. Richmond, Ind. Portage, Mich.

alumni.uindy.edu 33 M. Louise Hanson Church in Indianapolis. Judith Thompson Acton Stephen Carson ’68 is Rider ’51 passed away He is survived by his wife, ’62 died October 13. An the new chief financial September 19. Her Catherine Lane ’68, sons, elementary teacher for officer at Wavesat, a leading career included being a Larry, Terry, and Allan, and Brownsburg Community developer of WiMAX bookkeeper, secretary, and daughters, Jana Lane Kea School Corporation for broadband wireless network teacher; she retired from ’85, Jamie Lane ’81, and 34 years, she retired in chips and development tools East Alton Middle School Cheryl Nordby. He lived in 1997. Judith is survived in Quebec, Canada. by her husband, James in 1993. She is survived Franklin, Ind. Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp by her husband, John R. Acton ’64, and sons, Jon Carl Breeding ’55 was ’68 is regional director Rider ’47, and children, and Jason. She lived in elected in November to a of the Garden Writers Carol and Jeff. Louise lived Brownsburg, Ind. fourth four-year term as first Association. She lives in in Chula Vista, Calif. Class ward city council member Martha Edmonds Indianapolis. David Smith ’52 has in Jackson, Mich. Bishop ’62 retired in June Notes from the Bethel (Conn.) written a book, Hoosiers in Ben Harlan ’57 was Public School System. She Hollywood, published by the inducted into the Arsenal was a library and media Indiana Historical Society Technical High School specialist at Bethel Middle Press in April 2006. An Sports Hall of Fame, School. She and husband, exhibition featuring his Indianapolis, for his tennis Tim, live in Bethel. collection of photos, lobby accomplishments. He lives cards, and posters was in Greenwood. Marcia Brenneman displayed at the Indiana ’62 retired July 1 after Sandra Overman Boone Historical Society. David Art Key ’58 and Jean teaching for 43 years in ’69 (surrounded by family is a retired professor of Domroese Key celebrated the Fairfield Community members and students at telecommunications from their 50th wedding School Corporation in the foundation’s annual Ball State University. anniversary October 8. Art Elkhart County. She lives retired in 1992 from Sandia in Goshen, Ind. gala, above) received Hal Cole ’54, who National Laboratories in the 2005 Healthcare serves on the University computing services. Jean Sue Perry Simmonds Hero Award from the of Indianapolis Alumni worked for Albuquerque ’65 passed away November Wabash County Hospital Association Board of Public Schools for 33 years 3. She worked for Youth Foundation. She lives in Service earlier in her career Directors, was married as an elementary secretary, Wabash, Ind. (Plain Dealer and recently retired from October 28 to Mary retiring in 1998. They photo by Joseph Slacian.) the administrative field. Marlin. Hal is a retired have three sons, Mike, She is survived by her Richard Goodpaster ’69 principal of Southport Brad, and Doug, and 13 husband, John Simmonds was inducted into the Mt. Middle School. The couple grandchildren. The Keys ’65 ’80, and children, Healthy Athletic Hall of lives in Indianapolis and live in Albuquerque, N.Mex. Tammy Jennings and Mark Fame on September 16 as a also spends time in Panama Simmonds. She lived in player and coach. Richard City Beach, Fla. 1960s Memphis, Tenn. teaches and is varsity Fred Rossmanith The Rev. Charles Lane assistant women’s basketball ’61 retired in June after Christina Blumhardt ’54 passed away December and head baseball coach 35 years as principal of Brunette ’67 has 11. He was a US Navy at Clinton Massie High Demotte Elementary retired after 38 years of veteran of WWII. Charles School in Clarksville, Ohio. School. Previously he teaching. She and her He lives in Mount Orab. served as pastor to many had taught in Lowell and husband, Charlie, live in churches throughout his Valparaiso (Ind.) school Indianapolis. life, including Rosedale districts for nine years. Fred Hills United Methodist lives in Demotte.

34 PORTICO spring 2006 Stephen Carson ’68 is division at the Los Alamos the new chief financial 1970s National Laboratory, where Dean Ransburg ’54 died January 10. Dean was Paula Clark McAfee ’70 officer at Wavesat, a leading he has worked for 20 years. the first to hold the position of alumni director ’77 was elected treasurer of developer of WiMAX Brian and his wife, Carol, at the University of Indianapolis, 1964–1972. He the Indiana State Nurses broadband wireless network live in Espanola, N.Mex. Association. She lives in was an active alumnus serving on the Greyhound chips and development tools Indianapolis. Jon Custer ’73 has been Club board, received the Distinguished Alumnus in Quebec, Canada. named principal at Peru award in 1971, and was inducted into the University The Rev. James Woomer, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp High School in Peru, Ind. of Indianapolis Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. Sr. ’70 HD passed away ’68 is regional director He lives in Milan. Dean served as a Specialist 3 with the US Army November 24. He retired of the Garden Writers in 1979, after 45 years of Roberta “Bobbie” Security Agency during the Korean War. In 1957, Association. She lives in Patricia Polis McCrory service with the Western Brooker ’74, who serves he launched WICR 88.7-FM, which is flourishing Indianapolis. ’76 was highlighted in a Pennsylvania Conference on the University of as the University of Indianapolis radio station. He June 2005 issue of Indiana of the United Brethren Indianapolis Alumni retired in 1992 from Heritage Printing and Stephens Lawyer for her role in Church and the Central Association Board of convening the 54th Annual Office Supplies in Brown County after 15 years as Pennsylvania Conference Directors, was appointed Meeting of the 7th Circuit owner and operator. Dean is survived by his wife, of the United Methodist interim director of the Bar Association (for which Nancy Tiano Ransburg ’59, and children, Sharon Church. Following his Indiana State Library. She she serves as president) Winings and Stephen Ransburg ’87. Other retirement, he served for lives in Plainfield, Ind. and Judicial Conference relatives include brothers, Robert Ransburg and 15 years as minister of James Glass ’74 is in Indianapolis last May. visitation in Naples, Fla., John Ransburg ’67, sisters-in-law, Rebecca Horen vice chair of the Historic The publication included a at North Naples United Ransburg ’68 and Kathryn Williams Ransburg Sandra Overman Boone Landmarks of Indiana board. photo of her (above) chatting Methodist Church. Dr. ’87, and brother-in-law, Donald Tiano ’67. He lived ’69 (surrounded by family He lives in Indianapolis. with US Supreme Court Woomer is survived by in Morgantown, Ind. members and students at Justice John Paul Stevens, his wife, Marietta Getz C. Bruce Haddix ’74 has the foundation’s annual who spoke at the event. Woomer, and sons, James been named a 2005 national gala, above) received and Darrell. distinguished principal Carolyn Davis Langan the 2005 Healthcare by the US Department of ’77 has been promoted to Hero Award from the Frederick Gamble ’72 Education and National senior vice president of the Wabash County Hospital died October 2. He was a Association of Elementary safe families division at Foundation. She lives in US Army veteran serving School Principals. Bruce Family Service of Central Wabash, Ind. (Plain Dealer in Germany, 1957–59. is the principal of Center Indiana. She lives in photo by Joseph Slacian.) Frederick retired from the Grove Elementary School Plainfield, Ind. city of Indianapolis after 20 Richard Goodpaster ’69 and was named Indiana years. During his career, Dennis McNulty ’77, was inducted into the Mt. Elementary Principal of the he was assistant controller Janet McKinney Saylor physics teacher and track Healthy Athletic Hall of Year in 2004. He lives in of the Department of ’76 was married September and cross country coach Fame on September 16 as a Indianapolis. Administration, head of the 24 to Mike Blackburn. at Warren Central High player and coach. Richard records department, and Barbara Stevens Janet is a registered nurse School in Indianapolis, teaches and is varsity manager of accounting for Taylor ’75 passed away at White County Memorial led the cross country team assistant women’s basketball Metro Bus. He is survived October 28. She worked Hospital in Monticello, Ind. to an undefeated season, and head baseball coach by his wife, Rebecca, and as a teacher for Warren Mike works at Blackburn culminating in an IHSAA at Clinton Massie High son, Matthew. He lived in Township Schools for 14 Hauling in Flora. They live state track championship. School in Clarksville, Ohio. Indianapolis. years. Barbara is survived in Burnettsville. The team has gained He lives in Mount Orab. by her husband, Richard national recognition Paul Shrode ’72 is the Jennifer Inman Embree Hickey, daughters, Marcia and ranks second in the chief medical examiner in ’77 was elected to the Timmerman, Nicky Midwest and eighteenth El Paso, Tex. He lives in Board of Directors for Leimberger, and Stacia nationally. Dennis lives Ramsom Canyon. the Indiana State Nurses Durbin, and stepsons, in Indianapolis with his Association. Jennifer lives Brian Thompson ’72 Mike, Tom, Dan, and wife, Lynn. in Campbellsburg, Ind. was named chief of staff for Matt Hickey. She lived in the project management Greenfield, Ind.

alumni.uindy.edu 35 David Stone ’77 was the Indiana Commission Judge Sarah Evans his retirement in 1985, nominated by President for Women in November. Barker ’84 HD is a member he was vice president Bush, pending confirmation She lives in Indianapolis. of the Conner Prairie Board of governmental and by the Senate, for of Directors. She lives in community affairs for promotion to the Senior 1980s Morgantown, Ind. Merchants National Bank. Foreign Service of the John is survived by his Rusty Goodpaster ’80 is Roger Hintz ’84 became Department of State. children, Jan, Dave, and the director of the Indiana certified on August 22 Currently consul general Steve. He lived in Fishers. Law Enforcement Academy. as an IBM certified at the American Embassy He lives in Avon. application developer. in Nairobi, Kenya, David He is a senior technology assumes duties as consul Mary Lynn Adkins consultant at Information general at the American Fishback ’82 adopted a Systems Resources, Inc. in Class Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, baby girl from Guatemala Noblesville, Ind. Notes Mexico, in summer 2007. in February. Katherine Rosa was born July 5, 2004. Karen Glasser Sharp Donald Snyder ’78 was The family lives in South ’85 is the author of a book, selected for inclusion in Bend, Ind. Alternative Schools: Legal Who’s Who in America for Guidance for Serving Special accomplishments as a music Richard Heaston ’83 has Kathy Schoettle Baker Education Students, Second educator and for volunteer been appointed president ’88 and husband, Douglas, Edition. Karen lives in and advisory activities with of the Pike Classroom announce the arrival of Indianapolis. the Episcopal Diocese of Teachers Association. He is their fifth child, John New York. Donald lives in in his 18th year of teaching B. Scott Heady ’86 Douglas, born September New York, N.Y., and is a chemistry for Pike High was selected for the 7. The family lives in Signal music education specialist School in Indianapolis. Indiana Basketball Hall of Mountain, Tenn. with a school district in Robert Hunt ’83 HD Fame’s 2006 men’s silver D. Scott ’88 and Laura Irivington, N.J. passed away October 22. anniversary team, which Bergoff Bless ’94 recognizes outstanding high The Rev. Stephen Bob was the chairman of welcomed the birth of school graduates from 1981. Turner ’78 is serving as Hunt Construction Group, a son, Tate David, on Scott lives in Indianapolis. the transitional pastor at Inc. He served in the US September 20. He joins his First Christian Church Army as an engineer during Ann Mohr ’86 is the brother, Charlie, at home in of Oceanside Disciples of WWII. Bob was a member principal at Buena Vista Bloomington, Ind. Scott is Christ in Oceanside, Calif. of numerous boards, Elementary School in the head football coach and He is pastor of church committees, and societies, Greer, S.C. She lives in a teacher at Bloomington plants and revitalizations and was a University Simpsonville. High School North. for Missiongathering of Indianapolis trustee Carol Pickering Sewell Christian Church in San emeritus. Bob is survived ’86 is the vice president Diego, Calif. by his wife, Bette, and son, Robert. He lived in of the Perry Township Rick Marshall ’79 Paradise Valley, Ariz. Education Foundation. She recently earned his 350th lives in Indianapolis. win as coach of the women’s Dennis Reinbold ’83 John Sutton ’87 passed basketball team at North is the recipient of the Dr. away November 19. John Knox High School in Charles Bertram Alumni Award of Distinction from served as captain in the Bicknell, Ind. This is his Greg Miller ’88 the Great Lakes Valley US Army during WWII in 20th year as head coach announces the birth of Conference. President/ the medical administrative for the team. Rick lives in his daughter, Grace Marie, owner of Dreyer and corps. He was elected Vincennes, Ind. on October 3. The Millers Reinbold BMW, Dennis to several government live in Indianapolis. Virginia McCarty lives in Carmel, Ind. (See positions, including Marion ’79 HD received the page 30.) County (Ind.) auditor Jamie Cox Mitchell Torchbearer Award from and treasurer. Before ’88 ’89 ’98 is a physical

36 PORTICO spring 2006 his retirement in 1985, therapy assistant and works Army Reserves. Michael Police Department. Joseph John Dils ’93 won the he was vice president in marketing for Kids Only. was a purchasing manager lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. USA Triathlon Ultra of governmental and She lives in Carmel, Ind. for G & H Wire in Franklin, Distance National Erika Rossmanith West community affairs for Ind. He and his wife, Jean Championship title in the Stacy Rathbun Mitchell ’91 gave birth to a son, Merchants National Bank. Larson Adams ’90, also 35–39 age category. He ’88 ’90 and her husband, Erik Scott, on February John is survived by his owned and operated the lives in Richmond, Ind. Jeff Mitchell ’91, 11. The family lives in children, Jan, Dave, and retail store Cake Create announce the arrival of Longmont, Colo. Steve. He lived in Fishers. for 16 years. He is survived Jackson Montgomery on by his wife and children, Melissa Brandenburg September 12. He joins his Mark and Lora. Michael ’92 was married August siblings, Taylor, Morgan, lived in Greenwood. 13 to Nathan Smurdon. Grant, and Connor at their Melissa works at Butler home in Duluth, Ga. Kathleen Kanable Desktop University and is beginning Lucchesi ’90 and husband, Roderick Morgan ’88 a career in massage therapy. Backgrounds DC, welcomed home their serves on the Indiana State Nathan works for the daughter, Loren Palmer, Bar Association Board of Indianapolis Convention Enjoy the beauty born June 9. She joins Gretchen Craft Fox Governors. and Visitors Association. siblings Rob and Kellen at ’93, who serves on the of the University of They live in Indianapolis. Kathy Schoettle Baker Jim Berridge ’89 has been their home in Charlotte, University of Indianapolis Indianapolis on your ’88 and husband, Douglas, Alumni Association hired as vice president of N.C. Kathleen is a medical Linda Welty Faudree computer desktop! announce the arrival of business development for malpractice defense ’92 died on November 11. Board of Directors, was Visit http://uindy. their fifth child, John GoTV, which produces attorney with the law firm A veteran of the Indiana promoted to chief business Douglas, born September mobile video content on of Shumaker, Loop, & National Guard, Linda development officer at the edu/backgrounds/ 7. The family lives in Signal Rehabilitation Hospital demand. He resides in Kendrick LLP. worked as an accountant. to choose an image Mountain, Tenn. Smyrna, Ga. She is survived by her of Indiana, a St. Vincent Ted Green ’91 has started Hospital network facility. and place it on D. Scott ’88 and Laura husband, Robert, and Faisal Hussain ’89 ’91 his own business, Green your home or work children, Lindsey Faudree She and her husband, Jim Bergoff Bless ’94 is senior database Home Inspections. He lives and Kimberly Modglin. Fox ’93, live in Carmel, desktop. Check out welcomed the birth of administrator at INTUIT in Indianapolis. Linda was a resident of Ind., with their children, a son, Tate David, on in Calabasas, Calif. Faisal http://alumni.uindy. Indianapolis. Nicholas and Sydney. September 20. He joins his resides in West Lake edu/greyhound_ brother, Charlie, at home in Blaine ’93 ’95 and Jill Village, Calif. Chellie Gardner ’92 ’00 club/wallpapers. Bloomington, Ind. Scott is and partner Beth Foraker Hoeppner Guenin ’95 Kileen Knoop Winkler php for Greyhound the head football coach and welcomed home their son, ’97 announce the arrival of ’89 and her husband, Ben, a teacher at Bloomington Luke David, born August Clay Andrew on September athletic images. launched a new company, High School North. 28. He joins his sister, 6. He joins his big brother, Eager Beaver Trucking, Inc. Ruth Lee, at their home in Gage Thomas, at their in Shelbyville, Ind. Morgantown, Ind. Chellie Greenfield, Ind., home. David Zehr ’89 was Laura Mouser Harrell is a psychologist in private The Rev. Todd Jones elected president of the ’91 and her husband, practice in Indianapolis. ’93 and his wife, Kim, Builders Association of Stephen, announce the Julie Adkins Sweetser welcomed their twins, Elkhart County for 2006. In March 29 birth of Andrea ’92 and her husband, Jeff, Felicity Hope and October he attained the title Lauran. She joins siblings are proud parents of Jillian Nathanael Tate, December of certified aging-in-place Luke, Aaron, and Lisa at Isabella, born December 23. They join their sister, specialist. David lives in their home in Indianapolis. 31, 2004. Jillian joins Hannah Faith, at their Greg Miller ’88 Goshen, Ind. home in Kamrar, Iowa. announces the birth of Joseph Lyon ’91 was big brother, Drew, at the his daughter, Grace Marie, named CIT Officer of the family’s home in Goshen, Bridget Prickel Knecht on October 3. The Millers 1990s Year by the local chapter of Ind. Jeff works at Welch ’93 ’02 was promoted to Michael Adams ’90 live in Indianapolis. the National Association of Packaging Group. Julie day shift coordinator on passed away October 3. He the Mentally Ill for his work is employed by the state the labor and delivery/ served as lieutenant colonel Jamie Cox Mitchell with the Crisis Intervention of Indiana as a Medicaid high-risk maternal care unit and retired from the US ’88 ’89 ’98 is a physical Team of the Fort Wayne waiver case manager.

alumni.uindy.edu 37 at Methodist Hospital in Patrick Spray ’94 has September and received a Indianapolis. received his master’s degree certificate of recognition in school administration for excellence in state Gabriel Treon ’93 ’95 and leadership from and local government. married Morte Lewis, Jr. Indiana State University. Shariq is a director on the on September 17. They live Pat is director of elementary University of Indianapolis in Indianapolis. and secondary education Alumni Association board. Karyn Strite Atherton for Plainfield Community He and his family live in Schools, Plainfield, Ind. He Plainfield, Ind. ’94 gave birth to a son, Kirsten Smith ’95 ’97 lives in Mooresville. Brandon Lee, on October and her husband, George, 7. He joins sister, Kaitlyn, Christopher Boeke ’95 announce the birth of at the family’s home in is manager of applications Samuel James on November Class Indianapolis. development and support 27. He joins their family in Notes Brent Nicoson ’94 was for the financial, eBusiness, Bloomington, Ind. Kirsten hired as the men’s golf and general business is a physical therapist at coach for the University of teams in the information Bloomington Hospital. technology department at Indianapolis. He lives in Shelley Coats ’96 Vectren. Christopher lives Greenwood, Ind. completed her master’s of in Mount Vernon, Ind. Becca Rosen Stonitsch Dan ’94 and Pam Givens business administration ’96 ’97 and husband, Todd, Richwine ’96 announce Cara Stockton-Ankney degree in May 2004 were blessed with their the birth of Alex Daniel Burris ’95 is a critical at Indiana Institute of second child, Alyssa Nicole, on October 27. The family care nurse at St. Francis Technology in Fort Wayne. on July 13. Alyssa joins her lives in Fountaintown, Ind. Hospital. She lives in She is a human resource brother, Evan, at home in Franklin, Ind. business partner for ViaSat Channahon, Ill. Betsy Rasor Sansone in Duluth, Ga. Shelley lives ’94 and her husband, Tim ’95 and Carissa in Lawrenceville. Tom ’97 and Carrie Lance, welcomed their first Campbell Clark ’97 Oehler Allman ’98 child, Cody Donovan, into welcomed their second Lora McCormick welcomed home their the world on December child, Camryn AnnMarie, ’96, who serves on the daughter, Madelyn Grace, 3. The family lives in August 29. She joins her University of Indianapolis born October 20. The Noblesville, Ind. sister, Campbell, at their Alumni Association Board family resides in Fort home. Tim is a deputy for of Directors, is on the Wayne, Ind. the Marion County (Ind.) YMCA of Indianapolis Rebecca Gilliland Sheriff’s Department; Board of Directors. She Deemer ’97 and husband, is director of sales and Carissa is a property Michael Deemer ’98, business development for manager with Colliers welcomed the birth of Jude Veolia Water and lives in Turley Martin Tucker. Michael on November 21. Indianapolis. Mickey Maurer ’95 HD Jude was welcomed by his has been named secretary Shariq Siddiqui ’96 brother, Xavier, at their of commerce for the state of earned a juris doctor degree Greenfield, Ind., home. Tara Spencer ’94 ’96 was Indiana by Governor Mitch from Indiana University Michael is a financial married November 19 to Daniels. Mickey lives in School of Law in May. advisor with Merrill Michael Riehm. Tara is Carmel, Ind. He passed the bar exam Lynch and serves on the a physical therapist at the in September and is a University of Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital of staff attorney at the Julian Alumni Association Board Fort Wayne. Michael is a Center. He presented at the of Directors. Rebecca is teacher at Bellmont High Integrity in Public Service: an assistant professor of School in Decatur. The Living Up to the Public communications with the newlyweds live in New Trust symposium at Indiana University of Indianapolis. Haven, Ind. University Law School in

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By Edd Pritchard, Repository Staff Writer Back to school— North Canton, Ohio—Herschel Grose likes questions. At 84, Herschel Grose Better yet, he likes answers, because the answers can ’43 has started teaching lead to more questions. Asking and answering questions keeps the mind again at Walsh University. working, said Grose, who will soon turn 85. He retired in 1985 from He never wants to run out of questions. Lately, he’s been chasing down questions and Marietta College. He’s now answers at Walsh University. teaching a general chemistry A former chemistry professor at Marietta College, Grose is sitting in on biochemistry classes. He wants to lab, while sitting in on look at DNA and find out what holds all of those amino classes at Walsh. acids in place. DNA and cells are fascinating, he said. “I want to explore it.” But Grose, who has his doctorate and retired from he encounters today and those he taught during three Marietta in 1985, is doing more than watching a class at decades at Marietta. Because of computers and other Walsh. Every Tuesday afternoon, he teaches a general modern equipment, today’s students seem to know a lot chemistry lab. of different things, he said. “I love it,” he said. “It keeps me busy.” “I think quite highly of the students I’ve seen down Grose started attending a general chemistry class here at Walsh.” at Walsh in late 2004. He also helped several days a Grose was born in Scircleville, Ind., north of week by setting up the chemistry lab. That led to his Indianapolis. Chemistry didn’t interest him in high return as an instructor. school, but that changed while at the University of The basics of chemistry haven’t changed. But Indianapolis. He graduated with a chemistry degree in research has generated so much more information, 1943, then joined the Navy. Grose said. The Navy sent Grose on to Princeton and MIT He still has a general chemistry textbook he used in —where he met his wife, Charlotte—to learn about college. It’s dated 1938. He likes to compare it with the sonar and radar. He then spent about 18 months on a general chemistry book he uses today at Walsh. submarine in the Pacific. The older book is smaller, has fewer pages between Grose earned his PhD at Indiana University after its faded brown covers, and inside everything is black and the Navy. He and Charlotte had six children. When she white. Today’s textbook is larger, filled with color and died in 1990, he came to Stark County, where two of the more elaborate. Inside is information about air pollution couple’s children live. and global warming, things no one talked about in 1938. Most of Grose’s retirement has been spent traveling. But the older book has some valuable lessons. He’s visited 27 different countries and plans to see more. For example, it explains that at the time there were But he’s happy to make time for more teaching at Walsh. only 92 known elements, and evidence indicated that When not at the school, he makes time to work on likely was the maximum number of elements. collages—scanning photos he’s taken into a computer. “It was a couple of years later that one of those He also enjoys walking near Windsor Nursing Home, impossible elements demolished a Japanese city,” Grose where he has an apartment. said, referring to plutonium—atomic number 94— As he walks, Grose likes to look for something new, used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. or he’ll take a harder look at something he’s seen before. The lesson, Grose said, is that what you say today He studies the new find. It leads to questions, and that could be shown to be wrong tomorrow. sends him searching for answers. Although the textbooks are different, Grose said “It’s amazing what you can find out when you look he doesn’t see a big difference between the students into something that you haven’t looked into before.”

alumni.uindy.edualumni.uindy.edu 39 Janell Carr Foley ’97 representative for Reliants Fishers, Ind., home by her and her husband, William, Pharmaceuticals. They live sister, Devyn Leann. announce the birth of their in Indianapolis. Taryn Gajewski Kent second child, Gavin James, ’99 and her husband, Rob on November 14. He joins Kent ’02, welcomed the his brother, Gabe, at their birth of their son, Carter home in Columbus, Ind. Robert, on September David Frick ’97 HD was 23. He joins his sister, named Business Leader of Marvin Pavlov ’98 of Addyson Rileigh, at home the Year by the Indiana Columbus, Ind., announced in North Vernon. Rob has Chamber of Commerce. He his candidacy for Indiana been promoted to project lives in Indianapolis. State Representative engineer for Harmon (District 57). He is Abbey Werntz Hoffman Construction in North Kimberly Fritsch married to Hayley Pavlov, ’98 and her husband, Phil, Vernon. Taryn teaches Morstadt ’97 has been a pediatric dentist and announce the birth of English and drama at inducted into the Purdue owner of Columbus Zachary Evan on July 2. He Jennings County (Ind.) University Athletic Pediatric Dentistry, PC, joins his sister, Emma, at High School. Hall of Fame for her where Marvin oversees home in Greenwood, Ind. accomplishments as a business aspects. He is also Purdue student athlete. She Shannon Stanley Stover the owner and president lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. ’98 and her husband, Chad, of Pavlov & Associates, welcomed the arrival of Camille Webb ’97 is a LLC, a dispute resolution Rory Edward on January communications specialist and education company, 11, 2005. Shannon works in at the University of Texas and is adjunct professor at the marketing department Medical School at Houston. Indiana University-Purdue at Monaco Coach University at Columbus. Alp Berker ’98 and his Corporation in Wakarusa, Marvin serves on the wife, Daniele, announce Ind. They live in Nappanee. Kelly Leap Lee ’99 ’00 University of Indianapolis and her husband, Clint, the birth of Ziya Eren on David Wilson Swain Alumni Association Board celebrate the birth of Riley August 31. The family lives ’98 was one of four artists of Directors and is president- Elizabeth on May 10. Kelly in Indianapolis. featured in the Illustrators elect of the Indiana is a physical therapist at exhibition at the Christel Chris Bronkella ’98 and Association of Mediators. Physiotherapy Associates in his wife, Tricia, welcome DeHaan Fine Arts Center Erin Clark Pendleton Columbus, Ind. The family the arrival of Tristan Joseph Gallery at the University ’98 and her husband, Steve lives in Shelbyville. on July 25. He joins his of Indianapolis. He is a ’99, announce the arrival sister, Camryn Elizabeth, freelance illustrator and Cindy Lewis ’99 ’05 was of Hannah Kathleen on at the family’s home in lives in Glendale, Calif. promoted to director of September 21. She joins Indianapolis. quality resources at Johnson her sister, Grace, at home Memorial Hospital in Krista Soltes Cribbs ’98 in Spencer, Ind. Steve Franklin, Ind. is employed with People is an engineer at Baxter First Rehabilitation division Pharmaceutical Solutions in Jason McGary ’99 of Kindred Healthcare. She Bloomington, Ind. graduated from the John lives in Owensboro, Ky., Marshall School of Law Rebecca Fromm ’98 and with her husband, Bryan, in December. He lives in Troy Ramey were married and daughter, Reese. Chicago, Ill. September 24. Rebecca is a Patrick Kendall ’98 is senior auditor at Somerset Heather Braniff Diehl Samson Okello ’99 is a the owner of Patrick G. CPA in Indianapolis. ’99 and her husband, Scott, biologist and chemist for Kendall Insurance Agency Troy works as a sales announce the birth of Myra Eli Lilly Corporation in in Greenwood, Ind. Jane on November 3. She Indianapolis. He lives in was welcomed to their Fortville, Ind.

40 PORTICO spring 2006 Absar Malik ’99 is April Williams-Alvey Madisen, at home in production manager and outlet manager for Loews ’99 and her husband, Alexandria, Ind. Holly is a technical director at the Annapolis Hotel in Thurman, welcomed the physical therapy assistant at University of Indianapolis. Annapolis, Md. birth of their first child, Midwest Healthstrategies in Andrea McKelfresh Lucy Louise, on October Muncie, Ind. Kristine Thomas Brian ’00 is an academic 15. The family lives in Vondrell ’99 and her advisor for the department Terre Haute, Ind. husband, Tom, announce 2000s of mathematical sciences at the birth of their daughter, Holly Shafer Zent ’99 Jeffrey Barnes ’00 Indiana University Purdue Lily, on October 19. ’00 and her husband, Scott, has recently written and University-Indianapolis. She Kristine is an occupational announce the arrival of performed the one-person lives in Indianapolis. therapist at Lima Memorial their son, Mason, born play Remember Who Made Hospital in Lima, Ohio. May 24. He joins his sister, You. He is the theatre

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alumni.uindy.edu 41 September 19. Manish is employed with Royal Caribbean Cruise, Ltd. The family lives in Sunrise, Fla. Andrew Heck ’00 earned his American Board of Professional Psychology diploma in Adriane Rockhill Curtis clinical psychology. He is Keri Thomason Hacker Christy Conway Lung ’00 and her husband, a staff psychologist and ’01 and Jeremy Hacker ’01 and her husband, Matt, Shawn, announce the birth acting chief of psychology ’01 announce the birth of announce the arrival of Class of Theodore “Theo” Isaac at Piedmont Geriatric their son, Aidan James, their first child, Jackson Notes on August 20. He was Hospital in Burkeville, on November 11, 2004. Robert, on April 21, 2001. welcomed to their College Va. Andrew lives in Keri works at the Indiana Christy is a registered nurse Corner, Ohio, home by his Midlothian. University Medical Center at Parkview Hospital in Fort brother, Sullivan. and Jeremy is finishing his Kevin Lackey ’00 ’02 Wayne, Ind. The family last year of medical school is traffic and distribution lives in Spencerville. at Indiana University administrator for American School of Medicine. They Art Clay Company, Inc. live in Indianapolis. He also works part-time with America West/US Kim Andrews Kelley Airways. Kevin lives in ’01 and her husband, Nick, Greenwood, Ind. announce the birth of Talia Alexis Nicole on November Edward Liberatori ’00 12. The family lives in is an account manager at Joselyn Cutforth Daher Warsaw, Ind. ’00 and her husband, WJXT-TV Channel 4 in Kinsey Engle Neidiffer Michel, announce the birth Jacksonville, Fla. ’01 and her husband, Chad, of their first child, Lily Paul ’00 ’04 and Lisa welcomed the birth of their Marie, on July 21. Joselyn Gugel Osterman ’03 first child, Josey Lynn, on earned a master’s degree announce the birth of a August 3. Kinsey is Intake from Lewis University son, Owen Michael, on Coordinator at Wellstone in 2004. She is a special November 1. He joins Regional Hospital in education teacher at his sister, Ellie, at their Jeffersonville, Ind. The Bolingbrook High School in Indianapolis home. Lisa family lives in New Albany. Bolingbrook, Ill. The family is project coordinator for Francina Kudzai lives in Oak Lawn. Krista Vargo ’01 the Community Programs Mambo ’01 ’02 and her graduated cum laude from Center at the University of husband, Christoph Kahl, law school in May. She Indianapolis. announce the birth of also passed the Indiana Naima Guguletu Kahl on Sara Peterson Schrader Bar exam in July. Krista November 2. Francina is ’00 is a resident physician is an analytical chemist at a physical therapist with in the department of Eli Lilly and Company in Glendale Adventist Medical neurology at the Mayo Indianapolis. Center. The family lives in Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz. North Hollywood, Calif. Sara lives in Phoenix. Manish Garg ’00 and his wife, Neha, are proud parents of baby Krish, born

42 PORTICO spring 2006 Suzanne Davidson ’02, who serves on the University of Indianapolis Alumni Association Board of Directors, received a leadership and service Take two to send us your business card award from the University of Indianapolis Center for Your business card is your networking tool. But it can also help the University Aging and Community, demonstrate the wide variety of careers its alumni are employed in. A binder of where she is pursuing alumni business cards, sorted by career, is on display in the Admissions Office. a master’s degree in It’s a great way for prospective students and families to see some of the ways our gerontology. Suzanne lives alumni have gone on to succeed. in Pittsboro, Ind., with her Fields needing representation are architecture, banking, consulting, coun- husband, Thomas. seling, dentistry, engineering, hospitality, human resources, library science, Christy Deller ’02 was manufacturing, mathematics, military, pharmacy, and utilities. married December 26, So take two minutes, send two business cards to the Office of Alumni Relations, 2004, to Neil Brink. Christy and suggest to two former University classmates that they do the same. works for a swimming pool company, and Neil is a design engineer at Rolls- Royce. The couple lives in athletics at Western University of Indianapolis as Indianapolis. Michigan University. Matt a technical support service lives in Macomb, Ill. specialist. The couple lives Jennifer George ’02 is in Fishers. a staff radiographer at Christina Mineo ’02 St. Vincent Hospital of is a designer at Three- Jennings County in North Sixty Group. She lives in Vernon, Ind. Jennifer lives Indianapolis. in Madison. Shannon Poindexter ’02 Megan Grahn ’02 is an and Lindsey Borror ’05 Stephanie Szafarczyk accountant for Citizens were married June 4. The ’02 and Josh Banks were Gas & Coke Utility in couple lives in Tipton, Ind. married June 25. The the thermal division in Kevin Smith ’02 has wedding party included Indianapolis. joined the 9201 Group of Ryan Galyen ’02, Mathew Holmes ’02 is the FC Tucker Company, a Wendy Behnkendorf Amy VonDielingen ’02 the new assistant director real estate sales company. Galyen ’02, and Carrie joined the law firm of of media relations in the Kevin lives in Indianapolis. Dankoff ’02. Stephanie Wooden & McLaughlin division of intercollegiate is a school psychologist LLP in Indianapolis, for the Hamilton Boone working in the firm’s Madison Special Services business and creditors’ rights Cooperative in Carmel, practice areas. Amy lives in Ind. Josh works at the Lawrenceburg, Ind.

alumni.uindy.edu 43 Daphne Kivett magazine Children’s Better John Poray ’04 joined the Whitmire ’02 earned a Health Institute. The couple Indiana Invaders indoor juris doctor degree from lives in Indianapolis. track and field team as a the University of Dayton distance runner. John lives David Sharp ’03 School of Law in May. She in Mooresville, Ind. announces the birth of a lives in Martinsville, Ind. daughter, Lillian Kay, on Nicole Robinson ’04 was July 27. She joins her sister, married July 16 to Gerald Addison, at their home in Zulkowski. The couple lives Jeffersonville, Ind. David in Indianapolis. Jeffrey Henkle ’05 and is an associate campaign his wife, Sarah, welcomed Ashley Voyles ’04 was manager for Intrapromote. the birth of their first child, married March 19 to Derek Trevor Jeffrey, on June Cara Silletto ’03 is Sullivan. The Sullivans live 23. The family lives in director of education and in Salem, Ind. Indianapolis. communication at Indiana Erin Webb ’04, who lives in Erin Holm ’05 is a physical Health Care Association. Symantha Crane ’03 Gosport, Ind., is a traveling therapist at Arnold Physical She resides in Indianapolis. married Keith Dion on nurse with Abetta Care. Therapy in Helena, Mont. October 15. Crystal Gregory Svarczkopf ’03 Brooke Bymaster ’05 is Andrew Malloy ’05 Pennington ’03 was is the head athletic trainer a manager in training at and Susan Gilman ’05 her maid of honor. for the 2005 East Coast Finish Line. She lives in were married November The newlyweds live in Hockey League Kelly Cup Valparaiso, Ind. New Richmond, Ind. 12. Andrew is a physical Champions Trenton Titans therapist at NRH Regional Rebecca Kennedy ’03 in Trenton, N.J. Melinda Byrne ’05 is Rehab in Bethesda, Md. a registered nurse at St. gave birth to a daughter, Christopher Andrews Susan is a physical therapist Francis Hospital in Beech Harlee Rachelle Proffitt, on ’04 married Tessia Curry with National Rehabilitation Grove, Ind. Melinda lives December 8, 2004. They on September 3. They live Hospital in Washington, in Greenwood. DC. The newlyweds live in live in Connersville, Ind. in New Whiteland, Ind. Rockville, Md. Jeff Niewedde ’03 is an Tara Deppe ’05 was accountant for Larry E. married July 30 to Eric Neil Reddington ’05 is a Nunn and Associates CPAs Kelley. The wedding party recruiter for TEKSystems. in Columbus, Ind. included Casey Harter He lives in Fishers, Ind. ’03, Shari McNeal Kevin Robertson ’05 Jonah Odum ’03 is Rohyans ’05, Katie an operations manager is the director of bands at Smith ’06, and Brandon Indian Creek School in at FedEx Express in Coleman ’04. Tara is a Indianapolis. His wife, Trafalgar, Ind. Kevin lives science teacher at Jennings in Fairland. Angela Laker Odum Shannon Mingo ’04 was County Middle School. ’02, is a first grade teacher Tara Tracy ’05 is a first commissioned as a US The couple lives in North at North Park Academy grade teacher for Abraham Naval Officer on June 16. Vernon, Ind. in Indianapolis. Lincoln Elementary School She is attending medical Anthony Domenico ’05 in Indianapolis. Tara lives Marko Saulovic ’03 and school at the Uniformed is a sales and marketing in Greenwood, Ind. Jennifer Weber ’03 were Services University analyst at the Office Max Amber Keller ’05 married September 26, of Health Sciences in Headquaters in Itasca, Ill. married Travis Vonderau 2004. Brandon Cook ’03 Bethesda, Md. He lives in Chicago. served as the best man and on October 1. The maid of Erin Davidson Mould Andy Utterback ’03 was Sherry French ’05 is an honor was Dinah Wahli ’04 and her husband, Brent, an usher. Marko is a tennis area manager for Meridian ’05 and bridesmaids announce the birth of professional at the Carmel Automotive. Sherry lives in included Elizabeth Miller Brayden William-Lawrence Racquet Club. Jennifer Fountaintown, Ind. ’05 and Amy Jackson on September 18. They live ’05. The couple resides in is an art director for the in Greenwood. Fremont, Ind.

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portspring06 Leadership, Loyalty, Service

The University of Indianapolis is fortunate to have 35 distinguished and dedicated alumni, business and community leaders, philanthropists, and United Methodist representatives serving, with President Beverley Pitts, on the Board of Trustees. These generous individuals give their time, professional experience, and financial resources to guide the University through constant challenges and opportunities. In our recent Annual Report to Investors, five members of the Board were inadvertently omitted. We would like to recognize and thank the entire membership of the 2005–2006 University of Indianapolis Board of Trustees for their work in making our programs worthy of the students and communities we serve.

Board of Trustees

James W. Bear Michael J. Coyner Murvin S. Enders Cary L. Hanni JW Flynn Company Indiana Area Civic Volunteer M.D., F.A.C.S. Resident Bishop Evansville Surgical The United Associates, Inc. Methodist Church

Cindy Blackburn Bickel Daniel F. Evans, Jr. Quality Assurance President and CEO Engineer Clarian Health Emmanuel D. Harris Zotec Christel DeHaan Partners, Inc. Chief Executive Officer President and Founder Harris & Associates, LLC Christel DeHaan Family Foundation and Christel House International

Lorene M. Burkhart Sue Anne Gilroy Civic Volunteer Vice President of D. J. Hines Development/ Chief Executive Officer Executive Director Schuler Bauer Linda Dillman St. Vincent Foundation Real Estate Services Executive Vice President/CIO Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Carolyn M. Coleman Vice President B & D Sagamore Holbrook Hankinson Polly Horton Hix Executive Vice President Civic Volunteer and Chief Administrative Gary A. Edwards Officer CEO Standard Management Greenfield Builders, Inc. Corporation

46 PORTICO spring 2006 Charles E Johnston N. Gene Perkins Lorenzo Tallarigo Michael J. Watkins Managing Principal President President President Charles E. Johnston Firm N. G. Perkins Company, Inc. International Operations Mike Watkins Real Eli Lilly and Company Estate Group

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Carrol Vertrees ’47, retired editor of the Post-Tribune, Gary, Indiana, There is a reality of life, too. A dear friend from decades ago is continues to write a weekly column for the newspaper. His tribute to Alumni ill. “I may be here next year, and I may not,” she told me. She did not Weekend 2005 should have you turning to page 4. ask nor expect words of comfort, and I offered none, just a touch. I said, “You will be here,” but I did not finish, because I could not. She, It happens every year on that little college campus in Indianapolis, and other friends may not be back physically, but their presence will and I am about to give up hope. Another wing, another dorm, not fade in our time, and that is what I was trying to say. another room, a nice chapel—on and on, named for former No darkness can dim the light of those days long ago in this little students. I felt snubbed again at the recent alumni weekend. place, nor hide the faces of those we were so close to, our friends. They might at least nail a tiny plaque near the room where I At the church service, candles were lit to honor alumni who dozed through a bunch of Shakespeare stuff: “Vertrees slept here” left us in the last year, and it struck me that the list of dozens and would suit me. It would not be fair, though, because a lot of guys dozens was the longest I have ever seen. I do not keep records, so slept there, and I can name them one by one if necessary, even maybe this feeling reflected the sure knowledge that some day my after more than 60 years. name will be there. I hope they spell it right. I keep going back, mainly because I love the place where so People who are more sophisticated than I—most are, many of us found our mates, and some of us even found ourselves. probably—may think these comments about a little college are Decades ago, there were only a few hundred of us, linked by too personal to mean much, but the memories that fly me back homogeneity of our cultural roots and a curiosity about what on the wings of time remind me that I am lucky. We all require was out there in front of us. New buildings have changed the the sustenance of warm memories that touch our souls—simple appearance of the campus, but no architectural wonders can things, yes, but beyond price. replace the pictures we carry in our heads and hearts. My dorm roommate did not go this year, but I met a fellow That is the beauty of this place. who said that “Carl Leiter was the best history teacher I could Returning every year is an adventure in recognitions, in spinning ever hope to have.” Leiter and I used to walk half a mile in the old stories, sharing the wonder of it all—our long journeys through middle of the night to buy day-old pies for a quarter. He was the life, the enduring friendships. This indeed is a cruise back through best I ever saw at this. time that no travel agent could match. It may sound simplistic, but I do not know how many of our circle will be back in 2006, it is profound. There is a bond, a Lorelei voice that calls us back. but I take great comfort in the certainty that those who are not Yes, the fun revives us as we walk, talk, and say at least will be remembered. We wear plaques of fond memories in our hearts. Thus we honor each other. 48 figuratively:PORTICO spring “Look 2006 at us now.”