ConnectionA Publication of Lindenwood University for the Alumni In this issue: Fall 2015 Pg. Damaged Gate Pg. Ritter Boys Pg. Cliff Davis Pg. Beaty Now And much more of the Returns Stronger Marry Helps His Coaching Big XII latest news & events from 3 Than Ever 4 Lindenwood Girls 7 Alma Mater 21 Jayhawks Lindenwood University

Homecoming & Reunion Oct. 16-17 …Schedule on pages 14-15 President’s Message

ALUMNI INSPIRE US TO LOOK FORWARD This issue of Lindenwood Connection highlights inspirational On page 14, you are sure to feel proud while reading the stories that reflect the spirit, strength, and vision of story of Tom Shepherd (’04, ’05), who has put his Lindenwood Lindenwood University alumni. University degrees to good use with the development of a high-tech interactive museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of Just think about our own Louise Ritter Blackwood (’48), St. Louis. Anyone who can take the study of the economy whose Lindenwood family legacy (page 2) is a statement to the and financial policy and turn it into something fun has to be quality of this great institution. Louise’s mother started teaching a creative person! at Lindenwood in 1919. This fall, almost 100 years later, we will have on our campus as a freshman the 19th member of her Each of these forward-thinking individuals is a graduate of family to attend Lindenwood University. Lindenwood University, or soon will be, and each of their stories inspires us to focus our time and attention on the future as Another member of the Lindenwood family, Cliff Davis well. That’s the thought I would like you to have as you look (Page 5), will graduate in December with his doctoral degree. through this issue of Lindenwood Connection. Think about Cliff has opened doors for Lindenwood as a result of his what our university will look like in 2027 at the time of our efforts to introduce us to the Robert W. Plaster Foundation, bicentennial celebration. It’s not that far away. How will you which has provided a donation to name our School of Business be involved with the university? What do you see in 2027? and Entrepreneurship. Let’s start the conversation. I think you will love the story of Albert Harrold (’03, ’13) on page 8. Albert exudes the qualities of his unique summer camp program, Strength and Honor. This Ferguson resident is making a difference by helping to instill the importance of developing the tenets of character in the young people in MICHAEL D. SHONROCK, PhD his community. President, Lindenwood University

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COPY EDITORS/ CONTRIBUTING OFFICE OF EDITOR WRITERS DEVELOPMENT ...... Scott Queen Christopher Duggan Charlsie Floyd Kate O’Neal Kassandra Schnell Julie Sydow (’12) (’99, ’07) (’00, ’12) Director of (’07, ’08) Special Projects Alumni Relations and Special Events Rachel Johnson Community Relations Director of Coordinator Advancement Services Coordinator-Belleville (’04, ’10) Donna Baber Jessica Gatewood Mary Reuter Daniel Newton (’09) Director of Director of Planned Giving (’92, ’06) Corporate Relations David Dalfonso Assistant Vice (’82) Jane Baum President and Stephanie Dulaney Athletics Development Executive, Community (’11) Director Relations-Belleville Phil Vida Olivia Hancock

® Connection is published by the offices of Marketing and Communications and Development at Lindenwood University. Connection is mailed free of charge to Lindenwood alumni. Story ideas are welcome and should be forwarded to: Director of Alumni Relations, Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway, St. Charles, MO 63301 or via email at [email protected].

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The class of 1967 poses on and around the Alumnae Gate for a photo.

Alumnae Gate Back Stronger Than Ever!

by SCOTT QUEEN

It’s been on postcards, paintings, and sketches. It’s been a Christmas ornament. And it’s been a favorite photo spot for alumni and students for 10 decades. Lindenwood University’s beloved Alumnae Gate has had quite a summer! The gate suffered serious damage on June 24 when it was struck by a tractor-trailer. It now stands proud again, stronger than ever, thanks to masterful restoration work by a nationally recognized expert. The gate, built in 1921 using donations from alumnae, was methodically rebuilt and restored by Felling Contracting and other subcontractors. Dave Felling has over 40 years’ experience in historical architecture restoration. Work on the gate was completed August 1. Alumni from across the country, as well as current students, overwhelmingly responded to a call to share their memories and photographs of the gate. We’ve picked a few for this page, and you may go to the alumni web page at lindenwood.edu/alumni for more.

Abby (Gersman) Forguson (’10, ’13) and Nicholas Forguson (’14) on their wedding day in October 2013.

3 All the Ritter Boys Marry Lindenwood Girls Family Has Long History at Lindenwood by DONNA BABER

There are Lindenwood families who have multiple connections with the University, some going back a generation, and then there is Louise Ritter Blackwood’s family, whose connections number a dozen and a half and date back to the early 20th century. Blackwood, a 1948 graduate and a charter member of the Linden Grove Society, lives in Sarasota, Fla., and has meticulously chronicled her family’s long history at Lindenwood.

The story begins in 1919, when Louise Laiple Ritter’s daughter, students from across Missouri; she fondly Blackwood’s mother, Louise Laipple Louise Ritter Blackwood, attended remembers professors Dr. Kate Gregg Ritter, arrived at Lindenwood to teach Lindenwood as a day student and, (English), Marguerite Ahrens (home botany and mathematics. Laipple grew up during that time, was the organist at economics), Dr. Marion Lucile on a farm in Iowa as one of 11 children. the First Presbyterian Church, where Dawson (biology), and Dr. Siegmund After both of her parents died, the family the Rev. James Blackwood served as the A.E. Betz (English). was left impoverished. Nevertheless, new pastor. Rev. Blackwood arrived at all of the siblings were able to attend Lindenwood via Princeton, N.J., where at Although none of Mrs. Blackwood’s Ellsworth College in Ellsworth, Iowa. age 16 he had served as Albert Einstein’s three children attended Lindenwood, the From there, Laipple went to Columbia personal driver while the scientist was Lindenwood legacy has continued through University, obtained a master’s in German, teaching at the Institute for Advanced the families of her two brothers, the late and moved to St. Charles to teach at Study. One Sunday, Louise Ritter invited Dr. Hubert A. Ritter and the late Dr. Lindenwood College. She taught for Jim to lunch after church. Later that day, Paul J. Ritter. Hubert married Harriette four years before marrying Dr. Hubert he took Ritter’s daughter, Louise, for a Hudson Ritter (’46), and their daughter, C. Ritter, a chiropractor practicing in ride in his new car, followed by Vespers Lisa Ritter Hayman (’79), is the youngest St. Charles, after which she continued and a reception at Dr. McCluer’s house. of the known Ritter family alumni. Lisa to tutor in her home while Dr. Ritter lives in St. Louis and reconnected with practiced on the second floor. They had After graduating with a bachelor’s in her former classmate, Thomas Hayman two sons, Hubert Jr. and Paul, and a home economics, Louise Ritter attended (’79), during Homecoming in 2012. daughter–Louise. Blackwood recalls that the University of Missouri, where she A year later, he proposed in front of her parents “really believed in education,” received her Master of Education in Lindenwood’s iconic Alumnae Gate, and and this belief was so strong that the guidance counseling in June of 1949. the two were married exactly one year Ritters financially supported unrelated Just after graduation, Louise and Jim after. They plan to celebrate their first young women attending Lindenwood. married and their reception was held in anniversary with their friends during The Ritters opened their home in some what is now known as the Memorial Arts Homecoming in October this year. cases, and Blackwood remembers that Building on Lindenwood’s campus. In 1952, Louise and Jim Blackwood left Louise Blackwood’s other brother, the family “always had someone living in Paul, met his future wife, Oklahoma City their house that needed help.” for Wooster, Ohio, where Jim served as Pastor at Wooster College. In 1962, native Paula Moore Ritter (’54), on her Louise Ritter maintained close ties they moved to Florida. first day at Lindenwood when he offered to Lindenwood for the rest of her life. In to help her move into her dorm. Two 1966, Lindenwood President Dr. Franc Louise Blackwood says she had a days after she graduated with a major L. McCluer nominated her for Missouri “great experience” at Lindenwood and in drama and a minor in English, the American Mother of the Year; she was feels that it “gave me the education that two were married, with the reception runner-up. Ritter also served as an elder I needed for rest of my life.” held at President McCluer’s home on the Lindenwood campus. Moore Ritter in her Presbyterian Church and was active “Lindenwood was not a finishing in the local historical society, where she enthusiastically says her most memorable school because most graduates weren’t moment at Lindenwood was “meeting my was committed to the initiative to preserve finished—they went to graduate historic Main Street in St. Charles. future husband.” Today, she lives in school,” she said. St. Louis County and remains close with Her most memorable experience was her niece, Lisa Hayman. the mock political convention with Sen. Robert A. Taft as the speaker and visiting

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The Ritter-Lindenwood connection is not limited to the immediate descendants of Hubert Ritter and Louise Laipple. Hubert’s brothers, Arthur and Relatives of Louise Ritter Blackwood Attending Lindenwood: Raymond, also established strong family ties to Lindenwood. Four of Arthur’s Louise Laipple Ritter– Descendants of Arthur Ritter– children and three of his grandchildren taught at Lindenwood 1919-1923; brother of Dr. Hubert C. Ritter attended Lindenwood, and his married Dr. Hubert C. Ritter • Ruth Ritter Staggemeier (1973) ...... great-grandson, Blake Bredensteiner, will 1948 • Helen Staggemeier Louise Ritter Blackwood ( )* 1966 enter Lindenwood this fall. Arthur’s son, ...... Sandfort ( )* Raymond, married a Lindenwood 1988 Hubert August Ritter, MD– married • Leslie Staggemeier ( )* alumna, Helen Hammer Ritter (’29), Harriette Hudson Ritter (1946) • Elnor Ritter Lammers (1943)* and their son, Raymond, Jr., continued ...... • Grace Ritter Jackson (1934) the Lindenwood association by also 1979 Lisa Ritter Hayman ( )*– • Bernadette Jackson marrying an alumna. 1979 married Thomas Hayman ( )* McLain 1969 ...... ( )* 1974 Ann Wescoat Ritter (’60) and her Paul J. Ritter, MD– • Alice Ritter Boschert ( ) ...... future husband, Dr. Raymond Ritter married Paula Moore Ritter (1954)* Jr., both grew up in Cape Girardeau, ...... Raymond Ritter, MD–brother of Mo., and had known each other since Lillian Wilson Naumann 1935 – Dr. Hubert C. Ritter; married ( ) 1929 kindergarten. She came to Lindenwood at Helen Hammer Ritter ( ) Foster child of Louise Laipple Ritter ...... the insistence of her future husband, who ...... Chloe Neal Wilson (1935)– Raymond Ritter, Jr., M.D. – married told her that “all the Ritter boys marry Ann Wescoat Ritter (1960)* Lindenwood girls,” thus, she knew that sister of Lillian Wilson Naumann ...... he was serious about marrying her. She Ruth Burkle (1936) (Cousin still lives in Cape Girardeau, remembers of Louise Ritter Blackwood through all of the “wonderful people that I knew Laipple side of family) at Lindenwood,” and says that she had “a lot of fun.” She continues her relationship *Living with Lindenwood as a charter member of the Linden Grove Society.

With the 18 known Lindenwood PHOTOS: 1. Louise Laipple Ritter (1920); 2. (Left to right): Louise Ritter alumnae in the family, and another Ritter Blackwood, Paul J. Ritter, Louise Laipple Ritter, Lillian Wilson Naumann, Hubert A. Ritter (1930s); 3. Louise Ritter Blackwood (2015); descendant entering this fall, the Ritters 4. Lisa Ritter Hayman and Paula Moore Ritter (2015) are perhaps the most prolific Lindenwood family.And,iffutureeventsfollow history, this number will continue to grow as new generations of Ritters reach college age.

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Project Compassion Inspires, Empowers by STEPHANIE DULANEY

What is your purpose The American television personality Much like the message she in life? For Lindenwood Belleville and supermodel awarded sends to the youth she serves, alumna and current student Rachel Jackson-Bramwell $10,000 for her Jackson-Bramwell is still continuing Jackson-Bramwell, it’s about embracing explanation of how she would use the the Lindenwood tradition of lifelong your vision and making sacrifices funds to benefit others. As a result, learning. Returning as a graduate that mean something. calls from media outlets and interested student in the professional counseling volunteers began pouring in. program, she plans to use her A nationally-recognized next degree to fill a different need nonprofit owner and consultant, at Project Compassion. Jackson-Bramwell started her own “We were feeding the poor business from scratch with no previous and giving out clothes to the “Behavioral counseling is often experience. At the age of 25, she needy,” she said. “Project needed with the clients we serve,” began Project Compassion, a she said. “We are doing a lot of nonprofit located in Belleville, Ill., Compassion brought awareness referring now, but I started finding with the mission to show kindness to the type of poverty that exists that several of the young girls were to those in need, especially youth right where we live.” saying, ‘I’ll go if you come with me.’ and young mothers. In just 10 years, They are already comfortable with me, Project Compassion has served so by adding therapy as another more than 45,000 economically Jackson-Bramwell is most excited service we offer, they don’t need to disadvantaged people through job about Project Compassion’s work in tell their story twice.” area schools. resources, workshops, and trainings, in Jackson-Bramwell’s passion for the addition to donating 7,000 personal “We are working with 12 schools children and young women she serves care items and providing assistance in St. Clair County to bring our garnered national attention yet again to four low-income shelters empowerment program to kids and in 2014 as L’Oreal Paris presented her in St. Clair County. teens,” she said. “It gives us the chance with the Women of Worth Award. “I was a single mom at a young to reach kids after school to teach them Out of 4,320 women nominated age, and I lost my own mom when the importance of continuing their across the country, Jackson-Bramwell I was 19,” said Jackson-Bramwell. education beyond high school and was one of 10 women selected for this “After moving back home and equip them with customer service skills prestigious award. and job etiquette at a young experiencing a great support system, As someone who is always looking I wanted to give back.” age. It’s giving them the right attitude that really makes a difference.” for opportunities to empower and With no formal education on how encourage, Jackson-Bramwell believes to start a nonprofit, Jackson-Bramwell In spite of her busy schedule, that one reason behind the success learned by trial and error, Jackson-Bramwell says Project of Project Compassion lies in her extensive reading, and several hours Compassion inspired her to go back to willingness to fully embrace the vision on the phone with the IRS. school and finish her bachelor’s degree. before it became a reality. In 2008, she began attending classes Only three months after starting at Lindenwood University-Belleville “Pursue your purpose,” she said. Project Compassion, Jackson-Bramwell and earned her bachelor’s in business “Don’t enter a career or go for a degree received national attention and a administration in 2013. just to do it. Whatever your passion, jump-start on fundraising when she make sure the sacrifices you make are was featured on the Tyra Banks Show. always connected to that purpose.”

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Cliff Davis has been connecting people The result? The foundation contributed a significant and organizations for years. And lately, seven-figure gift to support the University, which in Lindenwood seems to be the benefactor. the spring named the Robert W. Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship. Davis is president of Ozarks Technical Community College Table Rock Campus, and he is about to become a Lindenwood alumnus. He is on target to receive his “Cliff is a very positive guy who is always doctorate in education in December. smiling,” said Dolly Clement, executive director Davis started his doctoral journey a few years ago, just of the Robert W. Plaster Foundation. as Lindenwood received approval to launch its doctoral He told me one day about Lindenwood and program. His first thought was to connect Lindenwood to his employer—OTC—and sell Lindenwood on teaching really helped connect us to the university.” education classes in southwest Missouri. As president of OTC’s Table Rock Campus in “I called, and not long after that I was meeting Branson, Mo., Davis is all about growing his campus and with a Lindenwood team about the idea,” said Davis. “And making connections. And he’s doing it on a statewide they accepted my proposal.” level—not just at Lindenwood. He is chairman of the Presidents/Chancellors Council of the Missouri Community Davis sold Lindenwood’s School of Education on College Association. his idea to teach graduate-level education coursework at OTC, and then he became a student in the program. “We just had the most successful legislative session in quite awhile,” said Davis. OTC became a great partner with Lindenwood’s School of Education, building graduate-level programs in Working with the MCCA and connecting with southwest Missouri. Lindenwood helps make OTC Table Rock Campus even better, said Davis. Davis took another step to connect with Lindenwood–a big one. He introduced the University “The Branson community is now in the OTC taxing to the Robert W. Plaster Foundation. district; we’re building new facilities, increasing our degree offerings, and connecting with our students,” said Davis. “The Plaster family has been wonderful supporters of OTC,” said Davis. “They have been great personal And because of Davis’ efforts, Lindenwood teaches friends. They are delightful people who are strong supporters classes at OTC. of higher education.” “It’s about being connected and serving our Davis, who spent a decade as OTC’s chief advancement students,” he said. officer, was a key figure in working with the Plaster Foundation to name the Plaster Center for Free Enterprise at OTC. So, he figured it was only appropriate to tell the Plasters about his friends at Lindenwood and mention that the University might have some common interests with the foundation. Davis called Lindenwood again and connected the Plaster Foundation to the University.

7 KenK Johnson speakssp at an author appearancea at SSt. Louis County LibraryL Headquarters Ken Starke and His Moonlight Serenaders—from 1965. Playing in March. (photo on the back row, fourth from left, is Gene Henderson, who later ccourtesy of St. Louis became the Dean of the Education Division at Lindenwood. CCounty Library)

Ken Johnson Debuts Book on Dance Hall Era in Missouri by CHRIS DUGGAN

Paul Turner and the Green Valley Ranch Hands –1947

King Engel and his Happy Buckaroos –1950

Missouri Valley Boys –1957

Eddie Randle and his Blue Devils –1936

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Lindenwood University Faculty Profile

School of Education Professor SPOTLIGHT FACULTY Ken Johnson has been making the rounds promoting his new book, Moonlight Serenade to City Lights: Rare Images of Bands and Orchestras from the Dance Hall Era in Missouri. The book consists of about 230 rare photos of the musicians that played NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI in RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS EVENTS ALUMNI SPORTS LINDENWOOD EVENTS UPCOMING Missouri’s dance halls, collected by Johnson painstakingly over a period of several years.

A career educator, Johnson has taught teacher book at the St. Charles County, St. Louis County, and education and education administration courses at St. Louis city libraries, as well as at the Missouri History Lindenwood since 1996 and, prior to that, worked as a high Museum in Forest Park and numerous historical school teacher and administrator, going back to 1964. societies throughout the region. The response from the public and the media has been amazing. He recently told St. Louis Public Radio that, growing up in rural Missouri, music was always around him, His presentations have had large audiences, with many especially from age 9 to 11, when his bedroom sat adjacent people purchasing multiple copies of the book and several to the dance hall that adjoined his grandparents’ gas station staying behind to talk to him. He said one man from and restaurant in Morrison, Mo. He talked of hearing Jefferson City remarked to him, “This is a treasure.” In the bands play while he went to sleep. addition to the St. Louis Public Radio interview, the book was mentioned in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,aswell In that period, families would go to the community as two other newspapers and two magazines. An article dance hall to eat, drink, listen to live music, and dance. on his book appeared in a recent edition of Missouri Life Several years ago, Johnson began collecting photos for a magazine, and he was recently interviewed for KETC-TV’s family history project. His father and grandfather played Living St. Louis program. drums, and his mother played banjo and sang. Initially, he collected 20 to 25 photos, and someone suggested to him that he should publish a book of photos, but to do that, “The experience has been one of the most he knew he would need in excess of 100. rewarding of anything I have ever done,” Over several years of working on and off on the Johnson said. “To sit and visit for an hour with project, making phone calls and driving from small town a musician, listen to his or her story, borrow to small town, ranging from St. Louis to Hannibal, Columbia, Jefferson City, Rolla, and points in between, he a photo from them, and now, years later, see their visited families of musicians who had played in the excitement and joy when it finally ends up in dance halls. Some photos were hanging on walls in living a book—it has been wonderful.” rooms and kitchens. Others were sitting in boxes in basements and attics. The 152-page hardcover book sells for $35. The book, published by Reedy Press, is a truly For more information, contact Johnson at one-of-a-kind collection of images from a by-gone [email protected]. era. Johnson has done 10 author appearances for the

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Harrold Teaches Strength and Honor with Mentoring Program by OLIVIA HANCOCK

It’s lunchtime at Strength The camp started out with around and Honor is his passion project, and and Honor Summer Camp, a dozen participants, mostly Harrold’s he has covered a large portion of the and the campers are ready to eat. sons, nephews, and their friends. camp’s expenses himself. Strength and Honor had 38 campers Before they do, Albert Harrold needs “I’m gonna get it done, but to address some morning misbehavior. enrolled this summer and has expanded to include Tuesday tutoring and I’m gonna need help,” he says. “I’m The offenses are pretty typical Thursday mentoring sessions during learning how to get help.” for elementary and middle school the school year. Harrold receives funding through kids: tattling, failing to listen, general Strength and Honor is open to friends and organizations such as the rowdiness. But Strength and Honor Ferguson Lions Club. He’s also started is more than a fun diversion, and any school-aged kid or teen who wants to participate. Tutoring is offered to a GoFundMe page for the program, Harrold tells the boys that attending and Strength and Honor was recently camp is a privilege. boys and girls, but mentoring and camp is for boys only. Harrold says classified as an official tax-exempt “Everybody doesn’t get the he saw a greater lack of resources for nonprofit organization. opportunity to be around positive underprivileged boys and wanted All this support for Strength men,” he says. to present them with positive male and Honor helps Harrold run a role models and better ways to spend program that teaches kids not only It’s clear from the attention the their free time. boys pay Harrold that they see him as how to succeed in school, but also exactly that. to be positive influences in their “If we don’t teach [boys] communities. He says he wants to A Ferguson native, Harrold show his students that education isn’t (’03, ’13) has been teaching science at to be men, how do we expect all school and books: “Education is McCluer South-Berkeley High since them to be men?” he says. everything you learn to better yourself.” 2006. He started the Strength and Honor program in 2011 after Harrold himself has benefitted a particularly challenging semester of from having positive role models in teaching summer school. Harrold his life, including when he attended felt that there had to be another way Lindenwood. He received his to educate struggling kids and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from came up with the idea of an all-boys the University. summer camp. “Lindenwood is near and dear to my heart,” he says. Harrold says attending LU helped him develop leadership skills that are crucial to his work today. Strength

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BackPicnic Draws to the Alumni Future

On June 5, the annual Alumni Picnic was held on the Evans Commons lawn with a showing of the 1985 classic Back to the Future. LMIEVENTS ALUMNI

Melynie Blac kshear (’13) with her daughter, Sasha, 8 (left), and guest Venyshia Hatf enjoyed some popcornield with the movie. WRS&RCGIIN LMINW NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS

President MichaelKaren, Shonrockspent some time and his wife, chatting with the crowd.

Edgardo Sanchez (’83) and his daughter, Scarlett Sanchez.

11 #Lindengrad15 May’s commencement ceremonies marked the first time the University has invited graduates and their families and friends to share graduation photos using a special social media hashtag. The hashtag was promoted on social media, online, and in print materials, and it was prominently displayed inside the Family Arena during the ceremonies. The response was overwhelming, and we decided to share a few of the photos submitted by proud new alumni!

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Undergraduate graduation Keynote Speaker Keynote speaker Sean O’Donnell, vice president and Penny Pennington, Principal at Edward Jones. general manager of Charter Communications.

The opening Graduation Procession March, Graduate school graduate Dustin Hoskins. featuring the Lindenwood Pipe and Drum Corps.

John Stevens (’75) was awarded the 2015 Alumni Merit Award Voice Only performing the Alma Mater. for his work in the communications industry.

Graduate Becca Hodge. EdD graduate Melissa Lee Wyers. Undergraduate Graduate School Graduation Graduation

13 Homecoming & Reunion ’15 Schedule of Events

Events and locations are subject to change. Check Lindenwood website at www.lindenwood.edu/homecoming frequently for the most up-to-date Homecoming and Reunion information or to register today!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2015 2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 Archaeological Dig 7:00 p.m. / Join Lindenwood students as they uncover 7:30 a.m. / registration Lip Sync Dance Contest and Pep Rally items from Lindenwood’s past 8:30 a.m. / start Race to Be King–5K Run and Walk GO LIONS! Our students, alumni, parents, Location: Southeast Corner of and friends will get pumped for the weekend. Harmon Hall Parking Lot 7:30 a.m. registration, 8:30 a.m. start. Join us Enjoy the student performances in the Lip Sync ...... for our annual Homecoming and Reunion Dance Contest and see the excitement with 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. / 5K Run/Walk! Starting at Roemer Hall, the appearances from the fall sports teams and the Rediscover Lindenwood event will end at the 50-yard line in Hunter LU marching band during the Pep Rally! Stadium. Entry is $20 in advance and $25 Join Lindenwood’s Archivist Location: Hyland Arena after October 14. All proceeds support exercise Paul Huffman, MLS, as he elaborates ...... equipment for senior services in the area. on the rich history of Lindenwood. Location: Roemer Hall FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015 Location: Spreckelmeyer Room, Visit Race to be King–5K Run/Walk page Hyland Arena ...... 1:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / ...... 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. / Homecoming and Reunion Registration 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. / Breakfast with the President Pick up your Homecoming and Reunion Ayres Hall Ribbon Cutting All are invited to join President Michael D. packets. Extra lunch tickets ($8) and t-shirts Be a part of the ribbon cutting to reintroduce Shonrock for breakfast. Welcome him to ($5) can be purchased at this time. Ayres Hall as an all-women’s residence hall. campus and listen to his address about Location: Hyland Arena Ayres was a men’s and women’s residence hall the school while enjoying the company of ...... (alternate floors) in 1968, and as more men alumni and friends. enrolled, it became an all-male dorm in 1969. 1:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / Location: Anheuser-Busch Leadership Alumni and Guest Reception Due to the need for more women’s housing, it became an all-women’s dorm in August 2015. Room; Spellmann Center Reconnect with fellow alumni and reminisce ...... Location: Ayres Hall about your days as a Lindenwood student...... 9:00 a.m. / Location: VIP Room, Hyland Arena Alumni Association Annual Meeting ...... 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / 4th Annual Alumni Fashion Showcase All alumni are invited to participate in the 1:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / featuring Nelly Don: Giving Back in Style annual Alumni Association meeting. Alumni ID Station Meet LU Fashion Design alumni and Location: Anheuser-Busch Leadership Apply for your new photo ID current LU Fashion Design students as they Room; Spellmann Center during registration. showcase their talents in the fashion ...... Location: Hyland Arena industry and enjoy a special tribute to 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. / ...... Nelly Don: Giving Back in Style. Homecoming and Reunion Parade 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. / Location: J. Scheidegger Center Homecoming and Reunion parade. Watch as President’s House Reception for the Arts, 2nd Floor Lindenwood’s marching band, cheerleaders, fortheClassof1965 dance team, and student organizations prepare This is a special dessert reception for 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. / for the game against the University of Nebraska members of our returning 50th Class. “Mocktail” reception. at Kearney. Are you interested in being in Welcome back, class of 1965! Tickets can the parade? Contact Nikki Cornwell at be picked up at registration. 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. / (636) 949-4717 or [email protected]. Location: Lindenwood House “Fashionable Conversation” about Location: Lindenwood Campus ...... the history of the Lindenwood University 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 3:45 p.m. / Fashion Programs, including the Historic Campus Bus Tours “Nelly Don Era” and her 50-year association with the fashion program. Tribute: Three 45-minute bus tours will be available Nelly Don–Giving Back in Style for you to reminisce on the Heritage Campus and to familiarize yourself with the new 5:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. / areas of campus. Tours are available from 2 p.m.-2:45 p.m., 3 p.m.-3:45 p.m., and Alumni Showcase 3:45 p.m.-4:30 p.m...... Location: Hyland Arena 6:30 p.m. / ...... Class of 1965 50-year Reunion Dinner 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. / Alumna from the class of 1965 are invited Dorm Tours to a special 50-year reunion dinner! 1965 ...... Class agents have set up accommodations Visit your old dormitory; students will be 10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. / for a dinner especially for the class of 1965. Homecoming and Reunion Registration available at all dorms to greet you. Information was mailed to all 1965 alumna; Pick up your Homecoming and Reunion Location: All on-campus dormitories attendees will purchase their own meals...... packets. Extra lunch tickets ($8) and t-shirts Location: Miss Aimee B’s Tea Room ($5) can be purchased at this time. 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. / ...... The Lions’ Red Cross Blood Drive Location: Lower level parking lot, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. / Spellmann Center Donate blood to the American Red Cross. Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner One donation can save as many as three lives; Join Lindenwood alumni, friends, and sports it feels great to donate! fans as we induct our new class of exemplary Location: Evans Commons athletes into the Lindenwood Athletic Hall of Multipurpose Courts Fame. Tickets are $30 per person. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Lisa Hundelt at (636) 949-4600 or [email protected]. Location: St. Charles Convention Center

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Bring your little lions to the EVENTS ALUMNI Kid’s Den for games and activities 9:00 p.m. to midnight / at the pregame tailgate event. After-Hours Mingle at The Edge ...... Location: Spellmann Center parking lot SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 ...... 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m. / 11:00 a.m. / Football Tailgate Women’s Rugby Barbecue Picnic Location: Track Complex Join other alumni, parents, and friends Free for alumni with ID 4:00 p.m. / at the annual tailgate! Enjoy the pregame Location: Schaltenbrand Parking Lot activities before you cheer on the Lions Women’s Lacrosse-Black and Gold Game ...... NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS to a Homecoming victory! Tailgate music Location: Track Complex by Broken Hipsters. 1:00 p.m. / 6:00 p.m. / Football Game vs Marian University Location: Dorm parking lot across Softball-Alumni Game from Spellmann Center Location: Lou Brock Complex Location: Lindenwood Football Stadium ...... 6:00 p.m. / 1:30 p.m. / Women’s Volleyball vs. Missouri Southern 3:00 p.m. / Homecoming Football Game Location: Hyland Arena Men’s Soccer vs Southwest Baptist Location: Lindenwood Soccer Field Cheer on the Lions to a Homecoming 7:30 p.m. / ...... VICTORY as they take on the University of Men’s Rugby vs. Maryville 5:00 p.m. / Nebraska at Kearney! Football admission is Location: Hunter Stadium Men’s Rugby vs Northern Iowa included in your wristband bundle, or tickets ...... may be purchased separately at the ticket office. Location: Lindenwood Football Stadium ...... Location: Hunter Stadium SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015 ...... 8:00 p.m. / 11:00 a.m. / Ice Cream Social & Movie Night 7:00 p.m. / Women’s Field Hockey vs. Dowling Movie TBD, free admission Evening Entertainment Location: Hunter Stadium Location: Schaltenbrand Parking Lot Student Life will present a fun entertainment 1:30 p.m. / option for Homecoming and Reunion Women’s Soccer vs. Central Oklahoma attendees! Log on to www.lindenwood.edu/ Location: Hunter Stadium homecoming for more information. 2:00 p.m. / Location: TBD Women’s Rugby vs. KC Jazz Location: Track Complex

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Museum and Director Take Visitors Inside the Economy by RACHEL JOHNSON

Certain themes emerge interactive displays, games, sculptures, him a great fit for the role, and he when thinking of the and videos. Everything inside is immediately began planning the Inside historic Federal Reserve designed to immerse patrons in a the Economy Museum once hired. one-of-a-kind experience that explains Bank of St. Louis. These “My time at Lindenwood really include financial operations, the the economy and the role people’s daily interactions play in it. helped me because my professors economy, policy issues, and market challenged me to think outside the stability. Words that may not “We try to take those sometimes box and to go above and beyond immediately come to mind complex economic definitions and what I thought I could do,” Shepherd are high-tech, interactive, digital, apply them to subjects as they relate to said. “The museum project was most and exciting. our daily lives,” said Shepherd. “We’ve definitely an out-of-the-box experience, Lindenwood University alumnus made it fun for visitors as young as age making the concept into something Tom Shepherd (’04, ‘05) aims to 10, but also informative for our adult fun and cool that may not immediately change that with the new visitors. We want everyone who comes come across as exciting as other 5,000-square-foot Inside the Economy here to learn something and have fun.” museums with dinosaurs and things like that.” Museum he helped create. Shepherd came into his role as the museum’s director in 2012 with Visitors to the Inside the “It took two years of career experience that made him Economy museum regularly share with uniquely qualified for the position. Shepherd their pleasant surprise at planning and detailed work After earning an undergraduate the innovative and visually engaging before launching the museum in degree in business administration space tucked just off the historic and the fall of 2014,” Shepherd said. with an emphasis in management, stately grand lobby of the bank. The and a master’s degree in business museum has received multiple awards, “I think it’s one of the coolest administration, Shepherd landed a job including 2014 Best Financial Service things I’ll ever get to work on as a customer service manager for the Project from the St. Louis Regional in my career. It’s unique St. Louis Science Center. Chamber and the 2015 Association of Midwest Museums Best Practices and not something you get the He left the position briefly after Award, and has been featured on chance to do every day.” one year to serve as an assistant branch local television news channels and in manager at a local bank, but felt various travel magazines. the role was not the best outlet for The Inside the Economy Museum his energetic and creative spirit. He “We’ve been very pleased with is located inside the Federal Reserve returned to work at the Science Center, the reception, and now we’re focused Bank, which is a part of the Federal where he assumed an expanded role establishing ourselves as a high-quality Reserve System. The Federal Reserve that included the planning, launch, museum destination for educators, Bank is in the heart of Downtown and operation of educational exhibits youth groups, and members of the St. Louis, where Shepherd’s sister and and special programs. general public,” he said. “We are a little fellow Lindenwood alumna Heather bit unexpected, and we promise visitors Dell (’03, ’05) is also employed. The After two years, Shepherd won’t be disappointed.” free museum engages visitors in a discovered the job posting for the hands-on journey through nearly 100 Federal Reserve Bank’s museum For more information, exhibits that are brought to life through director position. His combination of about the Inside the Economy Museum, visit museum and banking experience made www.stlouisfed.org/inside-the-economy-museum/.

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Honors Pile Up for Education Professor John Henschke and Alumna Risley Lori Risley, EdD (’12)

Dr. Lori Risley, a 2012 graduate of the as an educator and his scholarship. After completing her andragogy program in Lindenwood’s dissertation and earning her doctorate, she was hired by the University of Central Oklahoma as an assistant professor in Doctor of Education program, has much the Department of Adult Education and Safety Sciences. to celebrate —three awards given in quick succession for her work with adult students. “I am amazed, delighted, and not a bit surprised that Dr. Lori Risley has accomplished so much in such a short In April 2015, she earned the College of Education time since becoming faculty at the University of Central and Professional Studies Emergent Faculty Award for Oklahoma-Edmond, especially that she received three Professional Contributions 2014-2015 from her employer, prestigious awards in a period of six months,” Henschke the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. In March said. “She continues the ‘go-getter’ drive she had as an LU 2015, she received the National Treasure Award from doctoral student. At this pace I speculate that in the years the Association for Nontraditional Students in Higher to come she will make additional important contributions Education, which is given to “professors or academic to our field of adult education.” professionals for their dedication and support of non-traditional students on their campus,” according to the She and her colleagues have developed a program called association. In November 2014, she received the coveted Learning Counts at UCO. She is helping faculty at UCO Malcolm Knowles Award for Outstanding Adult Education to use andragogical principles to develop standards for Program of the Year, which is given by the American portfolios that will provide evidence of prior learning, for Association for Adult and Continuing Education. which students can gain credit. In the courses she teaches, students learn in a flexible format that enables them to “I feel very blessed receiving all of these awards,” come to class or to learn at home through Skype. Students Risley said. create their own learning contracts to determine their She credits Lindenwood’s andragogy program for learning objectives and the criteria by which the successful serving as a springboard for her success. Andragogy is a completion of learning will be determined. humanistic strand of adult education that incorporates Risley says she is delighted to have the chance to the adult student’s life experiences and interests in the help adults succeed at lifelong learning. learning process. “I was exposed to great faculty, and I had wonderful “I am extremely grateful for the education that role models,” Risley said, “so I knew what being an advocate for adult learners felt like.” Lindenwood provided me,” Risley said. “Now, I can make a difference in other people’s lives like Risley is a former nurse and nurse educator whose Lindenwood professors made in mine.”

dissertation explored the congruency between esteemed RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS Lindenwood professor John A. Henschke’s practices

Lindenwood University Campus News Groundbreaking On May 21,

held for new Lindenwood held a NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI groundbreaking for its Library and 100,000-square-foot, $21 million Library and Academic Academic Resources Center, which is scheduled to Resources Center open in late 2016.

17 Lindenwood’s 2015-16 Speaker Series will feature six thought-provoking discussions Science, Race, by noted experts on viral disease, race, botany, feminism, Middle East politics, Gender, Politics, and zoology, the last of whom, Jeff Corwin, will include some exotic animals as well. “The 2015-2016 Lindenwood Speaker Series will bring together another wide range and Animals of dynamic speakers covering issues such as science, literature, international relations, and politics,” said Paul Huffman, coordinator of the series. Speaker Series All events are free and open to the public. will Cover For more information about the 2015-16 Lindenwood University Speaker Series, Variety of Topics visit www.lindenwood.edu/academics/speakerseries. The schedule is as follows:

2015 2016

Dr. Nathan Wolfe Anita Sarkeesian Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 / 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 / 7:00 p.m. J. Scheidegger Center, Lindenwood Theater J. Scheidegger Center, Lindenwood Theater ...... Before It Strikes: Viral Forecasting Tropes vs Women in Video Games ffor Pandemic Prevention ...... Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator Wolfe, a virologist and director of Global of Feminist Frequency, a video web series Viral, will talk about his work traveling that explores the representations of women the world to eradicate the next pandemic in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses before it strikes. Author of the book on deconstructing the stereotypes and The Viral Storm, Wolfe was named one tropes associated with women in popular of Time’s 100 Most Influential People culture as well as highlighting issues in the World in 2011. surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces.

Star Parker Mosab Yousef Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015 / 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 15, 2016 / 7:00 p.m. J. Scheidegger Center, Lindenwood Theater J. Scheidegger Center, Lindenwood Theater ...... Politics, Policy, and Racial Son of Hamas–The Green Prince Polarization: How to Reverse the ...... Trends of the Welfare State Yousef is a Palestinian who worked ...... undercover for Israel’s security service, Parker is the founder and president of the Shin Bet, from 1997 to 2007, supplying Center for Urban Renewal and Education information that prevented dozens of (CURE), a public policy think tank suicide attacks and assassinations of that promotes market-based solutions to Israelis, exposed numerous Hamas cells, fight poverty. A former welfare recipient, and assisted Israel in hunting down she regularly consults with federal many militants, including his own and state legislators on market-based father, a Hamas leader. He currently strategies to fight poverty. lives in the United States.

Amy Stewart Jeff Corwin (with animals) Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 / 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 7:00 p.m. Spellmann Center, J. Scheidegger Center, Lindenwood Theater Anheuser-Busch Leadership Room ...... The Jeff Corwin Experience Promoting her new book, ...... Girl Waits with Gun This year’s Student Choice Speaker, ...... JeffJ Corwin is a renowned wildlife Stewart is the author of six nonfiction conservationist and environmental books, including The Drunken Botanist, and speaker, best known for his Emmy Wicked Plants. Her latest, Girl Waits with Award-winningA shows on Animal Planet Gun, is a novel based on a true story. She and the Discovery Networks and as the hasappearedonNationalPublicRadioand host of the ABC series Ocean Mysteries. numerous national television programs and With CNN and NBC News, he has has been profiled in the New York Times become known as one of the world’s and San Francisco Chronicle. leading environmental journalists.

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The legendary Tony Bennett will kick off the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts 2015-16 Performance Season on September 19.

2015-16 Scheidegger Season Starts with Tony Bennett

Shows will Include Music, Theatre, and Comedy NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS EVENTS ALUMNI SPORTS LINDENWOOD

Lindenwood University’s The Box Office is located in J. Scheidegger Center for Lindenwood’s J. Scheidegger Center for 2015-16 Scheidegger the Arts recently announced the Arts, at 2300 West Clay St., just Season Performances its 2015-2016 professional west of First Capitol Drive in St. Charles. season lineup. Following up a season The Scheidegger Center enriches the 2015 that included the likes of Jay Leno, Willie local community with performances and Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 / 8:00 p.m. Nelson, Amy Grant, and the Beach Boys, serves as a living laboratory for the arts for Tony Bennett the eighth season since the $32 million the students at Lindenwood University...... performing arts center opened will include The campus provides a secure atmosphere, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2015 / 8:00 p.m. The Doobie Brothers a full slate of legendary performers, led with fully accessible facilities and a ...... by the timeless Tony Bennett. family-friendly environment. Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 / 8:00 p.m. An Evening with Natalie Cole The Lindenwood Theater Main “Celebrating some of the most ...... Stage Season consists of nine touring influential artists of our time, the ’15-’16 Saturday,Dec.19,2015/8:00p.m. performances that includes a mix of music, season has something for everyone,” said Frank Sinatra, Jr. comedy, and theatre. All shows will be in Dr. Joe Alsobrook, dean of fine and the Broadway-style Lindenwood Theater. performing arts at Lindenwood University. 2016 “We are thrilled to continue offering an Performances include (in chronological all-star line-up, and we look forward to Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 / 8:00 p.m. order) Tony Bennett (Sept. 19), The Sinbad welcoming another season of sell-out ...... Doobie Brothers (Oct. 10), Natalie Cole crowds to the incomparable J. Scheidegger (Dec. 12), Frank Sinatra Jr. (Dec. 19), the Saturday, Feb. 11, 2016 / 8:00 p.m. Center for the Arts.” Michael Bolton comedy of Sinbad (Jan. 30), Michael Bolton ...... (Feb. 11), Stayin’ Alive: A Tribute to the In addition to the professional shows, Saturday,March19,2016/8:00p.m. Bee Gees (March 19), the touring the J. Scheidegger Center features multiple Stayin’ Alive: A Tribute to the Bee Gees production of Joseph and the Amazing student productions, including music series, ...... Technicolor Dreamcoat (April 7), and Roots dance concerts, theatrical performances, Saturday, April 7, 2016 / 7:00 p.m. and Boots (April 16), featuring country art exhibits, and fashion shows, as well as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat favorites Sammy Kershaw, Aaron Tippin, several community events throughout each ...... and Pam Tillis. season. For more information about the Saturday, April 16, 2016 / 8:00 p.m. 2015-2016 season or to be added to the Roots and Boots Tickets for individual shows are J. Scheidegger Center mailing list, contact currently available online at LUboxoffice. the Box Office at 636-949-4433. com and at the Scheidegger Center box office, 636-949-4433.

19 Leave a Lasting Legacy Martha Boyer Jean Fields Professor of Speech and Communication Professor of English and Communication 1947-1972 1965-1998

Martha Boyer and Jean Fields are remembered as amazing innovators in Lindenwood’s Communications program. Martha and Jean are remembered foremost for the priority they placed on the success of each individual student. Without Martha’s vision, Lindenwood’s radio station KCLC would not exist today. Jean extended her students’ learning experience beyond the classroom through her cutting-edge teaching methods.

The legacy of these two dedicated educators lives on today through the many lives they shaped. We invite you to create a legacy for Lindenwood and its future students by including Lindenwood in your estate plan.

For information on how you can leave a legacy for Lindenwood and its students, contact Donna H. Baber, JD, Director of Planned Giving, at [email protected] or (636)-949-4532. Or visit www.lugift.org.

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Lindenwood University St. Charles Kansas University coach David Beaty Marcus Yokeley, Sports –Fall 2015 and Lindenwood the new Defensive Former Former University Coordinator at Lindenwood Lindenwood President Michael Missouri State basketball player volleyball player Shonrock, PhD University Kelly Albers Kathy Fritz Beaty Heads List of Sports Alums Doing Great Things

The journey from Hunter Stadium in wide receivers who were picked in the NFL that turned around the program after nine St. Charles to Memorial Stadium in Draft, including Mike Evans, one of the top straight losing seasons. She also served as a Lawrence, Kan., takes about a five hours. rookies in the NFL last season. graduate assistant coach for the program. But for Lindenwood alumnus David Beaty Now, she is a key member of the nursing (’94), his journey from being a star wide Beaty’s accomplishments earned him staff at Saint Louis University Hospital. receiver to being a collegiate head coach his first collegiate head coaching job last After graduating from Lindenwood, Albers took 21 years. His hard work paid off last December, but it was not just any job. attended nursing school at Saint Louis winter when he was named the head coach He is one of just 64 head coaches in University. Graduating near the top of her of the University of Kansas football team. the country at an NCAA Division I power class, she will be staying close to her former conference as he takes over the reins team, having earned a position in St. Louis. Beaty was a member of the inaugural of a Big 12 program, completing his trek Lindenwood varsity football team in 1990 from Lion to Jayhawk. Kathy Fritz (formerly Moore) and was one of the star players on those received plenty of serving while at early teams. He led the team in receptions Beaty isn’t Lindenwood’s only Lindenwood as a defensive specialist on for three years and was a two-time captain. alumnus in the football coaching world. the Lady Lions volleyball team, including

Another who received a big promotion last as captain of the first conference SPORTS LINDENWOOD After graduation, Beaty followed his winter is Marcus Yokeley. Yokeley spent six championship team in program history. passion for football by teaching the game to seasons on the Lindenwood coaching staff, Now, she is doing the serving as the senior others. He began his coaching career at the and also earned his Master’s in Education. manager of club services for the St. Louis high school level until 2005. In 2006, Beaty Last season, he was named defensive Rams. Fritz has been with the Rams since took his talents to the collegiate level as an coordinator at Missouri State University, 2005 and is responsible for the service, NCAA Division I assistant coach at Rice under one of the hottest head coaches at retention, and administration of all Rams University. He was also an assistant coach that level, Dave Steckel. club seats and all-inclusive clubs in the at Kansas and Texas A&M University over Edward Jones Dome. the next nine seasons. He helped train five Kelly Albers was a key member of the 2010-11 women’s basketball team, the squad LMIEET WRS&RCGIIN LMINW NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS EVENTS ALUMNI

Lions Ready for Lions’ football linebacker Fall Season to Begin Connor Harris

The Lindenwood football team has been On offense, wide receiver Jaron Those two players combined for nearly getting bigger and stronger since its Alexander returns after being named 44 percent of the team’s kills in 2014. transition to the NCAA Division II level. third-team all-MIAA last year. Alexander The Lions hope 2015 is the year for it to will be chasing the record book in his senior The men’s soccer team looks to get translate into more victories. year, including a chance to become the back to the MIAA Tournament Finals for school’s all-time leader in receptions. the fourth straight season. It returns two No player represents the bigger and all-conference players, including Andre stronger Lions better than linebacker Eight other starters also return on the Hayne, a second-team all-region selection. Connor Harris. The junior dominated offensive side, but it could be a newcomer last season by averaging nearly 14 tackles that will play the key role in how the The women’s soccer program lost just a game, the fourth-highest total in NCAA Lions fare. Quarterback Jesse Scroggins one senior and returns four all-conference Division II. Harris also showed his transfers to Lindenwood after playing players this season. The Lady Lions have offensive skills in the final game of the two seasons at the University of Arizona, improved their MIAA finish in each of their season, rushing for 188 yards and four including an appearance in last year’s Pac-12 last two seasons and look to keep that trend touchdowns in a season-ending win Championship game, in which he connected going with a top-four finish in 2015. over Northeastern State. on a 69-yard touchdown pass. The field hockey team returns its top Harris, an All-American after his The women’s volleyball program offensive player, Greta Banholzer,and performance in 2014, is one of seven returns the majority of last year’s top defensive player, Victoria Gil, as it tries returners on the Lindenwood defense, team, including all-conference performers to build on last year’s 10-win campaign. including three other honorable mention Shannon Doyle and Kayla Guyot. all-MIAA picks.

21 Lindenwood University Student Life Sports Sports –Fall 2015

National Champs Ready to Defend Titles

As the fall semester gets under way, Men’s Club Championship in November. National Collegiate 7’s Championship several Student Life Sports teams begin the It was the fourth championship overall for for its second national title in just the fourth new season as national champions. the program after winning the Division III year of competition for the program. crown in 2006, 2007, and 2008. The shooting team will seek an Several Lindenwood student-athletes unprecedented 13th straight title after As the calendar year began, the Lion won individual national titles: Connor winning the ACUI Collegiate Clay Target Line dance team won its first Open Jazz Brown in cycling, Morgan Mavis Championship in March. Olympic division title and sixth overall at the UCA in shotgun sports, Mary Killman in weightlifting captured the first collegiate and UDA College Cheerleading and Dance synchronized swimming, Victoria Francis team title in program history by winning Team Championships. Not to be outdone, in women’s wrestling, and Briana Miller the coed division at the National University cheerleading won the Large Coed Division and Landon Shuffett in billiards. Championships in September 2014. Men’s II crown in April, the second overall for water polo earned its first Division I title the program. Shortly after the spring 2015 at the Collegiate Water Polo Association semester concluded in late May, men’s rugby emerged victorious at the USA Rugby

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Experience Former Lindenwood Lion Line member Leads to Coaching Jobs Whitney Sterns

Two Lindenwood alumni have recently winning two national titles was a great an intervention specialist at Buchtel been hired as head coaches. Former Lion experience, the best part was the way we High School in Akron, Ohio. Line member (2010-14) Whitney Sterns worked together along the way. We graduated with a fine arts degree in dance in were a family that fought for something Two other former men’s bowlers are 2014 and returns to her alma mater to lead together. I cannot wait to take the lessons in the coaching ranks. Brett Cunningham, the Lionettes program, effective August 1. I learned and use them to help the who played for Lindenwood for two She was a part of the national championship Lionettes have another successful season.” seasons from 2008 to 2010, was hired as squads in 2012 and 2013 and served as a an assistant coach for the University of captain in her final two years. Former men’s bowling team member Maryland–Eastern Shore women’s (2007-11) Kimani Smith was named the program in November 2014. Steve Sterns said she is very excited about head coach of the women’s bowling program Solovic, who was one of the original team returning to Lindenwood as a coach. at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, in members for the Lions program in 1999, late May. Smith bowled for the Lions from has been head coach at Missouri Baptist “My four years on the team were some 2007 to 2011 and graduated with a degree University since 2012 after serving as of the most incredible years of my dancing in elementary and special education. He an assistant coach for the program the career because of the friendships built and served as a graduate assistant bowling coach previous five years. the lessons learned,” she said. “While for two years, earning a master’s degree in teaching in 2013. Smith currently works as

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Lindenwood University Belleville Sports –Fall 2015

Former Lindenwood Starks Giving Back Belleville basketball standout in Numerous Ways by DAVID DALFONSO Todd Starks

In 2013, Todd Starks left Lindenwood Starks has had professional contracts Starks, a native of Memphis, Belleville as the all-time leading scorer in with teams in Canada, as well as a stint Tenn., is a frequent visitor to Lynx Arena men’s basketball. Two years later, he still with the World All-Stars, where he traveled when he comes home. holds that title—among others—even as to countries such as Italy and Turkey the first four-year class has gone through before being picked up by the Washington “Whenever I’m in town, I always make the program. Starks has spent the last few Generals. During his time in Europe, sure to return to Lindenwood-Belleville years putting his feet down in 30 different Starks has garnered playing time on multiple to work out with some of the younger guys countries and four continents, playing teams on the European tour over parts of and show them some things I’ve learned professional basketball, entertaining, and the past two seasons. while playing professionally,” he said. lecturing to thousands of kids and adults. “Todd’s success is representative of Not only does Starks come to Belleville “I talk to both kids and adults about everything we want for our graduates to work out with some of the younger training, fitness, nutrition, and staying in when they enter the professional world,” guys, but also to watch his alma mater play and keep in touch with his coaching staff.

school and getting good grades,” says Starks. said Scott Spinner, his head coach while SPORTS LINDENWOOD “I just give them a personal testimony of at Lindenwood Belleville. “He is using his “I am very impressed with how the how I got to where I am today.” skills developed in the basketball program basketball program has grown from and in the classroom to tour the world my first year playing and will say I am the Currently, Starks is in the process of entertaining basketball fans.” developinghisowntrainingprogram,which most proud of coach Spinner and the started at Lindenwood Belleville, while The all-time leader in points (1,531), job he has done with the overall success attempting to bring the first Lynx basketball Starks was the first of two players to of the program,” he said. camp to Belleville during the summer eclipse 1,000 points in his career. He also Spinner spoke about Starks’ continuous months. Beginning in Lynx Arena, Starks holds career records for three-pointers contributions to the program. started training players from the Premier made (193), free throw percentage (81.8), Panthers and has since gained more clientele and assists (343). He holds the top scoring “We are so proud of Todd and

due to his professional accomplishments. mark in a season with 761 points, most his professional accomplishments,” NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI Spinner RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS EVENTS ALUMNI three-pointers in a season with 103, and said. “He was a true blessing to our the top three marks for assists in a season basketball program during his time here, with 126, 109, and 108. and his professional success and reputation continue to bless our program today.” Lynx Prepare for New Era in Belleville

Coming off its first season of competition The men’s soccer team comes off be a rematch of the first-round game in in the American Midwest Conference a historic campaign in the 2014 season, the AMC tournament last season. The (AMC), Lindenwood Belleville athletics winning the AMC regular season and regular season concludes with a home continues to move forward in the AMC tournament championships. This year, Lynx match against Park University on Oct. 31. and will also begin a new era in Field will feature the first ever night game football as the Lynx join the Mid-States in the home opener against Spring Arbor on The women’s volleyball schedule Football Association (MSFA). Sept. 4. The Lynx will travel to Columbia features competition in two regular season College on Sept. 29 for a rematch of last tournaments hosted by Evangel University The football team opens up its season’s conference championship game. and MidAmerica Nazarene. Defending inaugural season in the MSFA with a The 2015 team features four returning national champion Park University comes Sept. 5 matchup against Sienna Heights at all-conference members, including Freshman to Lynx Arena on Oct. 26 in a feature Lindenwood Stadium. The Lynx will host of the Year Guillermo Chinchilla. game of the 2015 season, and the regular conference opponent Marian Heights on season will conclude with Senior Day Oct. 17 for Homecoming before the final Kelly Prince and the women’s soccer on Nov. 7 against Lyon College. home game of the year Oct. 31 against team will play their inaugural night game Robert Morris University. on Sept. 9 against conference opponent St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Traveling to Columbia College on Sept. 30, this will

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aerobic exercise, gymnastics, Gregory Uptain (’97) will ’60s weightlifting, calisthenics, marry Maggie Hawkey. Uptain Dr. Sharman Beasley Vesecky running, and several other received a Bachelor of Arts in (’66) retired in the spring of forms of exercise that involve mass communication from 2015 from El Centro College pull-up bars, kettlebells, and Lindenwood University. He is in Dallas after more than 39 medicine balls. an editor for Lee Enterprises in years of service. She was the Maryland Heights, Mo. first coordinator of the paralegal Karen Lettner (’93) has been a program in 1976 and served Boeing employee for 29 years. Laura Heitert (’99) completed her 19th year of teaching in the in the same capacity until her Mildred McChesney (’94) Parkway School District. She retirement. She will continue recently retired from recently published a children’s as a political science adjunct Boeing’s Explosives Detection book about diabetes titled instructor, which she has also Systems department. been since 1976. Maddie’s Me Bag. The book is William Schrum (’94) retired based on an actual activity Anthony (Tony) Kreutz (’01) Vicky (Smith) Tarleton (’67) as a science teacher from she completed with her received the East Central retired from her job as director Hazelwood School District. third-grade students. Her goals College (ECC) Outstanding of planned giving and major are to raise diabetes awareness Michael Laws (’97) works Alumni Award for 2015. Kreutz gifts at Belmont University in andtohelpotherswhoare for the Overland Police began his college education Nashville, Tenn. newly diagnosed or simply need Department as the chief of at ECC in 1984, and went support. Heitert received her police. This year, Laws was on to earn a bachelor’s degree master’s degree in education ’80s named chairman of the in business administration at from Lindenwood. Rich Hanneken (’83) received St. Louis Area Police Chief’s Lindenwood. In 1991, he a graduate degree in banking Association and secretary/ Rhonda Schrum (’99) began his career at SCI from Louisiana State University treasurer of the FBI National retired from the Hazelwood Engineering as a structural in 1995. Hanneken received Academy Associates. School District. steel manager and in 2001 the Gilbert Bickel III Award advanced to his current position for Outstanding Business ’00s as vice president and partner Senior from Lindenwood. He at the company. As director is now the managing member of business development, he of Hanneken Hogan and oversees corporate customer Associates, a banking company service and marketing, in St. Peters, Mo. including strategic planning, acquisitions, and expansion. Abigail Tuttle (’86) is a Kreutz serves on the Board of wealth management advisor Directors for the Downtown with Northwestern Mutual in Partnership of St. Louis, Clayton, Mo. She qualified the Hawthorn Foundation, for Court of the Table and and First State Community membership in the Million Bank. In 2016, he will serve Dollar Roundtable (MDRT), as chairman of Make-a-Wish an international, independent Jo Anna (King) Pollock (’97) Foundation’s governing board association of nearly 19,000 was named to the Illinois Rising in Missouri. He currently chairs leading life insurance producers. Stars list as a top attorney Linda Stewart (’00) was the Mercy Foundation board MDRT is a coveted career for 2015. No more than 2.5 accepted into the Peace Corps and is on the executive board of milestone that indicates sales percent of all Illinois lawyers are and has departed for Ethiopia the ECC Foundation. Kreutz is and service achievement and named Rising Stars, who must to begin training as an English a third-degree knight with is a highly recognized mark of be 40 years old or younger, language specialist volunteer. the Knights of Columbus excellence for life underwriters. or have been in practice for Stewart will live and work in Washington, Mo., and a 10 or fewer years. Pollock was at the community level to member of the Washington and ’90s named an Illinois Rising Star improve students’ English Union chambers of commerce. for the fourth consecutive year through classroom instruction Todd Rumbo (’91) was in the areas of environmental and computer lab work, and Casey Godfrey (’02) became promoted from senior vice litigation and personal injury– she will also foster professional principal of Lincoln Elementary president to president and general: plaintiff. She was the development for English School in River Forest, Ill., CEO of C4 Connections. 2014 chair of the Intellectual teachers. She will work with on July 1 after wrapping up The organization’s mission Property Group for the teachers and student teachers to his principal tenure at The is to help businesses American Association of Justice. strengthen ties between schools Lane School in Community efficiently tackle the challenge and colleges where teachers Consolidated School District of sales and marketing. Farrell Shelton (’97) joined 181 in Hinsdale, Ill. Godfrey Kirkwood High School as a are being educated. Patti York (’92) has also shared teaching and and her physical education teacher and Rick Brueggemann (’01) has daughter Lynette opened principal duties previously in the head football coach in July a son, Conner, who is currently Hawk Point, Mo. Uncharted CrossFit on Portwest 2015. Shelton taught social attending Lindenwood DriveinSt.Charles,Mo. studies at Eureka High School, as a music education major. Pamela (Bastain) Smith (’02) CrossFit combines elements of where he also served as the head completed her first children’s football coach since 2000. book, titled Bullied on the

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Court. The book gives lessons professional speaking business Raelynn (Ciesynski) Mears also an employee at Colonial about bullying, friendship, and publishing business in 2013 (’10) and R. Travis Mears (’10) Michilimackinac in Mackinaw and peer pressure. Smith also called The Lion and Willow. announced the birth of their City, Mich., where she is worksasaninsidesales first child in July 2015. working on an archaeological Carla Hayes (’07) is a North representative for Heraeus dig. Whitson graduated County Inc.’s 30 Leaders in Joyce Wesley (’10) is a Noblelight in Buford, Ga. with a degree in archaeology Their Thirties honoree. She police sergeant with the from Lindenwood. Alex Mariscal (’03) received is the leadership and alumni St. Louis Metropolitan Police his master’s degree in theatre program manager and diversity Department, where she Erin Calahan (’12) is the from Lindenwood. He is leadership fellowship director has over 17 years of service. operations manager for now head of the Research for Focus St. Louis. Hayes is Lauren Stepp (’11) and Andrew Anheuser-Busch InBev and and Graduate Program at the also lobby head usher for the Batson (’13) married on June resides in Valencia, Calif. While Universidad de Panama in Fabulous Fox Theatre. 14, 2015, in Negril, Jamaica. at Lindenwood, Calahan was a Panama City, Panama. member of Alphi Phi Omega MartyLinson(’07)created a Stepp received a Bachelor of and enjoyed participating in Sheryl Guffey (’04) is the bronze sculpture in honor of Arts degree in elementary the Natural Science Club and president of P.E.O., Chapter James D. Evans. The bust is on education and teaches first the LU Environmental Club. JY, St. Charles, and is on display in Evans Commons. grade for Warren County R-III the board at Siteman Cancer School District at Daniel Boone Lauren Maureen Costigan (’12) Gretchen Lippincott (’08) was Center-Barnes, St. Peters. She Elementary School. Batson and Parth Shailesh Patel (’12) named Teacher of the Year also leads a group at Fairwinds earned a bachelor’s degree are engaged. Costigan graduated at Warren School in the Francis Retirement Community in business administration summa cum laude from Howell School District. called S.W.A.P. (Seniors with and is a food trader for Food Lindenwood with a Bachelor a Purpose), which helps senior John Louis Barnes Jr. (’09) Link. The couple resides in of Fine Arts degree. She is volunteers meet the needs of is a gunsmith at Briley Wentzville, Mo. an area sales manager with the community. Guffey wrote Manufacturing. Kristy (Soetebier) Godi (’11) is Dillard’s. Patel graduated magna a book titled Cottleville: Where cum laude from Lindenwood Kyle Lindquist (’09) is a special education teacher at History Never Grows Old. with a bachelor’s degree and principal of Timberland St. Clair Elementary School in is co-owner of Haveli Indian Melinda Ray (’04) continued High School in Wentzville, St.Clair,Mo.Sheismarried Restaurant in St. Louis. her education at Rhema Bible Mo. He holds a masters in to Josh Godi. She received her Training College in Oklahoma. educational administration from Bachelor of Art in psychology Stacey Noble-Loveland (’12) Lindenwood University. and elementary education from is the executive director for Curtis Shelton (’04) has been Lindenwood. Foxes Grove Supportive Living named the new principal Community in Wood River, Ill. at North Middle School in ’10s Michael Emerick (’11) and She graduated with her Henderson, Ky. He received Andrew Hock (’11) have opened Christopher Bell (’10) is a Master of Arts in gerontology amaster’sdegreein a rental management company market development from Lindenwood. educational administration manager for FedEx and will called Oversee in South from Lindenwood. marry Jennifer Clarkston Walton Beach, Fla. The duo Lindsay Norton (’12) and also coaches the South Walton Andrew Lawrence (’12 & Widad Franco (’05) works for in September 2015. High School girls’ volleyball ’13) will marry in October NHK Japan Broadcasting as Jason Ceballos (’10) is team and has led them to the 2015 in Blue Springs, Mo. a correspondent in New York. a visual designer for Flight final four in state. Norton played football while He has also been invited to be Safety International. he received his Bachelor of a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Sophia (Galati) Phifer (’11, Arts degree and an Master of Catholic University in his home Robert T. Jordan Jr. (’10) ’12) is owner and trainer at Business Administration country of Ecuador. is a retired police sergeant and Recalibrate Fitness in Old is now working as a human Town St. Charles, Mo. Her in 2013. Lawrence was an Yvette Scott (’05) is a recent relations specialist for niche is helping people lose athletic training student addition to PohlmanUSA, a the St. Louis Civil Rights weight, gain confidence, and while at Lindenwood. court reporting and litigation Enforcement Agency. become the ultimate versions Amanda Moehlenpah (’12), service provider, and has more of themselves. Phifer graduated from Saint Louis than 30 years of experience Thomas Leasor (’10) recently graduated with her Bachelor University with a master’s in workinginthelegalfield, retired as the patrol division of Science in exercise science French. She previously received primarily in mass tort and lieutenant from the Franklin in 2011 and with a Master of a bachelor’s in American studies multi-party litigation. County Sheriff’s Office with 24 years in law enforcement. Business Administration and French from Lindenwood. Patricia (Gettemeier) Hellrung He has accepted the position in 2012 from Lindenwood. Moehlenpah was selected by the (’06) was married in July of executive director for Kayla Smith (’11) works University of North Carolina 2013. She and her husband the Eastern Missouri Police for Metro East Fellowship to receive the Royster Fellow, reside in O’Fallon, Mo. Academy. Leasor is also one of UNC’s most prestigious of Christian Athletes as NOTES & NEWS ALUMNI fellowships. The five-year Nancy Holth Adrian (’07) is an adjunct instructor for a programs, events, and duration includes travel, a senior business assistant at Lindenwood while pursuing development administrator. full-ride benefits, and teaching Group Head. She is co-author his doctoral degree in higher Erin Whitson (’11) is a graduate experience. Her dissertation of the book Life at the education administration student at Binghamton focuses on 17th and 18th Lemonade Stand, published in and leadership. University in New York. She is century dance and French. 2008. She also started her own

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Stephanie Moss (’12) is Emanuel “Manny” Forbes (’13) Jennifer (Duffield) Botello Faculty/Staff fundraising coordinator for joined the St. Louis Ambush (’14) wasannouncedasthe Jerry Bladdick (’93), New Pathways for Children Soccer Team in October 2014 new principal for Ray Miller Lindenwood-Belleville in Paducah, Ky. She as a mid-fielder and is known Elementary in Kirksville, Mo. President, will be leaving the graduated from Lindenwood for his speed and agility. Previously, Botello worked Belleville campus to start a with a master’s in Forbes moved to the U.S. in for the Ferguson-Florissant new position with Ringling nonprofit administration. 2006 to major in business School District for 24 years as College of Art and Design in administration at Southern an elementary school teacher, Sarasota, Fla. Bladdick came Wesleyan University in instructional coach, and to Lindenwood-Belleville in South Carolina, and then summer school administrator. 2009, and under his leadership moved to Belleville, Ill., Nathan Bramwell (’14) is the campus population grew where he received his the Athletic Facilities Ops from 450 students to more master’s in human resources Coordinator at Missouri than 2,000 and the number at Lindenwood Southern State University in of degree offerings increased University-Belleville. Joplin, Mo. Bramwell recently from 12 to 38. Kelli (Wilburn) Meyer (’13) attended the MIAA University Rachel Beard’s children’s book, married Bruce Meyer in 2014. Advancement Summer Building Forever Friendships, She works as a communications Conference at the University was published. specialist in government and of Nebraska–Kearney. Cynthia Bice (’91) was named public affairs at the nonprofit Patricia Cowell (’14) is a Donald Danforth Plant Science Educator of the Year by Erika (Schalamon) Sinner (’12) community health facilitator the St. Louis Association of Center in Creve Coeur, Mo. with the OASIS Institute. After and Christopher Sinner married Secondary Principals in She received her degree instructor certification for in March 2015 in Chesterfield, March 2014. in corporate communications Living a Healthy Life Mo. The couple met when from Lindenwood. with Chronic Conditions, Derek Stanley, a wide receiver they attended the Lindenwood Sergei Prasolov (’13) she now teaches the course in football coach at Lindenwood, evening bachelor’s program is currently working at St. Charles and Wentzville. married Andrea Lowe in five years ago. They reside in June 2015. Chesterfield, Mo. the nonprofit Lutheran Betty Jones (’14) opened Senior Services. Pauline’s Place Adult Day Saint Rice (’10) is now Daniel Bliese (’13) is a Care in St. Louis in June an adjunct professor volunteer and staff member 2015. Jones received a at Lindenwood. at Colonial Michilimackinac degree in gerontology and located in Mackinaw City, Dr. Mary Ruettgers (’07 & ’13) public administration. Mich. It is the site of one of the joined the School of Education longest running archaeological Miro Ruiz (’14) announced faculty in August 2015. digs in the United States, the birth of his first son. having been in progress since 1959. Bliese graduated with his Bachelor of Arts from Lindenwood, where he worked at the Historic Daniel Boone Home and Heritage Center. Sandy Boschert (’13) is the owner and operator of Lady Emiley Scott (’13) married B’s Bed & Breakfast, as well as Brett McMillan (’14) in March rental manager and real 2015 in St. Charles, Mo. They estate agent in St. Charles. now live in Kearney, Neb., Mark Clements (’13) became where she works at the Buckle principal of McIntire Headquarters and he is a sports Elementary in the Fulton, Mo., anchor and reporter for the Kimberleigh Griffin (’15) 58 School District in June. ABC television affiliate. has been accepted into the Peace Corps and departed Stephanie Enger (’13) is now for Ethiopia June 29 to a recruitment manager at Girl begin training as a secondary Scouts of Eastern Missouri. education English volunteer. Griffin will live and work at the community level to improve students’ English through classroom instruction and computer lab work, as well as foster professional development for English teachers. Griffin received her bachelor’s in English from Lindenwood

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IN MEMORIAM

Please be aware that the names M. Elizabeth (Bardwell) Jacquelyn (Bond) Clausonthue Frank McSpaden (’81), listed in the In Memoriam Stevenson (’35), (’47),Naples,Fla. Clarksville, Tenn. section are of alumni that may Mission Viejo, Calif. Majoree (Cashman) Rung Lola Lucas (’84), have passed away within recent Elizabeth “Betty” Atkins (’38), (’47), Mokena, Ill. Springfield, Ill. months or within the past Arlington Heights, Ill. couple of years. Doris E. (Weinkauf) Siebenthal Sally Henry (’85), Edith (Mandel) Myers (’38), (’52), Knox, Ind. St. Charles, Mo. Springfield, Ill. Nancy A. (Stigall) Bell (’54), Craig Beffa (’99), Kathryn (Trescott) Ricks (’39), Slidell, La. St. Louis, Mo. Jefferson City, Mo. Betty Jo (Green) Morse Bonna (Kirkpatrick) Harmon Audrey (Wenger) McCully (’54), Ponca City, Okla. (’00), Puxico, Mo. (’40), Hot Springs, Ark. Gerean (Millman) Rudnick Collin Loveless (’10), Rachel Emma (Britain) Bowles (’55), Leawood, Kan. St. Louis, Mo. (’41), Durant, Okla. Carlie (Samuel) Schnabl (’55), Allison Turner (’13), Jean (Moore) Atwood (’42), Wilmette, Ill. St. Peters, Mo. Pine Bluff, Ark. Dr. Mary N. Walker (’56), Kathleen Keegan (’14), Marjorie (Murphy) Edwards St. Louis, Mo. St. Peters, Mo. (’42), Collinsville, Ill. Irene Ritter (’65), Earl Davis (Faculty/Staff of Ruby (Wilson) Alberts (’46), Hermitage, Tenn. the University) Wichita, Kan. Kathleen (Esther) Sommerfeldt Polly (Percival) Vermeulen (’65), Edwardsville, Ill. (’46) , Tucson, Ariz. Priscilla (Griest) Shoemaker (’79), St. Petersburg, Fla.

Lindenwood/Taylor Swift Connection Comes to Light Taylor Swift, the singer-songwriter and recording superstar, has a fairly direct connection to Lindenwood University, which recently came to light. Lindenwood’s Alumni Office learned that Swift’s maternal grandmother, Marjorie Moehlenkamp Finlay, was a graduate of Lindenwood from the class of 1949, which was later confirmed by the university’s archives. Born in 1928 in Memphis, Tenn., Moehlenkamp earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Lindenwood in 1949. An opera singer, she performed as a soloist on radio shows on NBC and CBS and married Robert Finlay in 1952. The couple went on to live in Cuba and, later, Puerto Rico, where she hosted a bi-lingual variety show on television called The Pan American Show, according to an article in a Lindenwood publication. She was awarded Lindenwood’s Alumnae Certificate of Merit in 1961. The article states that she “can often be heard harmonizing with her two young daughters” and that she is known for her “genuineness, warmth, and her ‘girl-next-door’ manner,” which sounds a little like the image that her famous granddaughter would later project.

Moehlenkamp Finlay and her husband would later live with Swift’s family in Reading, Penn., Marjorie (Moehlenkamp) Finlay (’49) where she died in 2003. Some have suggested that it was her music career that inspired is recording artist Taylor Swift’s Swifttopursueacareerinmusic.

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President Shonrock meets with the alumni board during his first week at Lindenwood. by JUDY FORSTMANN BROWN (’67)

Summer 2015 arrived with alarming tragedy was overwhelming. LU Welcome Center, has been –both figuratively and Swift and decisive action from our new designed to serve the university a BANG president brought guarantees that the and the community.

literally–on the Lindenwood campus. LLC gates would be preserved and rebuilt. June 1 brought a new beginning with While change seems to be the arrival Dr. Michael Shonrock as A reconstruction specialist was contracted almost immediately to a constant in today’s world, one the 22nd President of Lindenwood unwavering element at Lindenwood is University. The Executive Committee restore the gates to their former glory. Dating back to 1921, the gray stone the loyal alumni who return to their of the Alumni Board met with our alma mater to celebrate Lindenwood new President during his first week on gates were constructed with alumnae donations. We have been assured the and reminisce with former classmates

campus to explore opportunities for Design: Michael Thede Design gates will return built stronger and and professors during our Reunion/ expanding the role of the alumni and Homecoming. Reunions have been a to seek ways to enhance the University’s better. Our treasured landmark was fully restored as of Aug. 1. longstanding tradition at Lindenwood. commitment to its alumni base. They bring us back to that special In June, we also witnessed a The bang of construction also time in our lives. October is not far literal bang when a truck toppled a can be heard across campus as grading away. I hope you are making plans to portion of the historic Alumnae Gate has begun for the new Library and celebrate with us October 16-18. on Kingshighway. The outpouring Academic Resources Center. Building I look forward to seeing you to of concern from alumni and the a new library is a unique experience celebrate our history and our future. St. Charles community regarding the for a university. The structure, situated along First Capitol Drive near the ©2015 Lindenwood University All rights reserved