THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Winter 2018

THE CAMPAIGN FOR OHIO WESLEYAN

Special Issue Celebrating 175 Years More than 1,000 alumni and friends returned to campus Oct. 19-22 to mark 175 years during Homecoming and Family Weekend, including the all-campus noon celebration at which the Board of Trustees formally voted to enter the public phase of the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign.

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CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES EDWARDS GYMNASIUM Investing in our students Investing in our professors Capital improvements Investing THE OWU CONNECTION SCHOLARSHIPS RECRUIT AND RETAIN FACULTY INNOVATION: SLOCUM HALL/CAREER SIMPSON QUERREY FITNESS RESIDENTIAL in each day AND FINANCIAL AID THE VERY BEST NEW AND ENHANCED CONNECTIONS CENTER CENTER, MERRICK HALL 22 Special feature GOAL: $35 MILLION GOAL: $10 MILLION ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAMS This innovative curricular GOAL: $50 MILLION GOAL: $25 MILLION GOAL: $10 MILLION A fold-outFULLY FUNDED map of campusOur unique living-learning highlights the areasGOAL: $35 that MILLION have been or will be supported program helps students Whether need-based or Help OWU recruit, foster, and GOAL: $12 MILLION The OWU Career Connections environments nurture students As we look to our bright BRANCH RICKEY ARENA connect academic theory merit-based, scholarships develop our greatest asset — With the creation of new Center will be dedicated to as collaborative, socially aware future together, we also GOAL: $3 MILLION Paths Background Trees Reds (brick) with real-world practice in and other financial aid can the people who educate, majors and degrees to meet fostering pathways from the bycitizens. the The campaign.newly opened (Can remainyou committed find to the Bishop?) a global context, through be the deciding factor in shape, and inspire our leaders the shifting demands of classroom to meaningful The eye-catching structure, Gillespie Honors House and maintaining our historic BRANCH RICKEY ARENA Travel-Learning Courses the college decision. Aid of tomorrow. We look ahead today’s incoming students, employment. Its location in named after the legendary three small living unit (SLU) campus on a day-to-day and Theory-to-Practice alumnus who helped break duplexes, including the Dittrick for returning students can to attracting the most promis- as well as the continued Slocum Hall near Admission basis. From landscaping to Dark blue Light blue Yellows Limestone tones (Slocum) Grants. Students also help ensure that students ing new educators to our enrichment of The OWU will send a clear signal to baseball’s color barrier, opened House and the Jim and Eilleen building maintenance, to MEEK AQUATICS apply classroom learning who love their OWU academic tradition, as well as Connection, our faculty prospective students and their in 1976. Renovation of the Dicke House, as well as the faculty and sta salaries, AND RECREATION CENTER through OWU Career experience but struggle retaining our existing talent in continually demonstrate their families that students will be iconic arena would give our planned new House of Black annual giving touches each Connections, career- student-athletes a new home Culture, are all thanks to financially are able to an increasingly competitive forward-thinking academic ready for their first job upon part of OWU, each day. Windows and roofs Warm grays (University Hall) related internships. complete their degrees. professional market. creativity and curiosity. completion of their degree. court on which to shine. leadership30 gifts. Celebrating 175 years ILLUSTRATION BY PATRICK KASTNER A look back at OWU in pictures Browns Cool grays (Merrick)

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ON THE COVER: A planned OWU Career Connection Center in Slocum Hall will help further realize the University’s commitment to providing pathways to meaningful work after graduation. Photo: Mark Schmitter ’12, styling by Gregg Blume, Jay R. Blankenship 2 | OWU Leader’s Letter

Charting our bold path forward: undergraduate research). Toward this academic buildings and athletics THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY end, we will add significantly to our new facilities, and enriching the residential CONNECT TODAY, CREATE TOMORROW OWU Career Connection and guarantee campus where the students spend the that every student has the opportunity largest amount of time. n 1842, the Rev. Adam Poe and a the accomplishments in response to us cannot even imagine. to complete a robust internship or I am thrilled with and humbled by group of Delaware, Ohio, visionaries those values, and to acknowledge the This is a season when the values of a I research experience in preparation for a the early results of the Connect Today, imagined the formation of a university countless people who have shaped this liberal arts education are more important WINTER 2018 | Volume 94 Issue N0. 3 meaningful job and a fulfilling life. Create Tomorrow campaign, which that would bring education to a new institution throughout its storied past. than ever. And it is a season when our Our democratic society is built on the surpassed the $140 million mark before spot on the American frontier. One- The dedication of the Gillespie Honors society, more than ever before, hungers www.owu.edu/alumni proposition that education is the ladder our public launch and was nearing $145 hundred-and-seventy-five years House and the recognition of nine for a new generation of moral leaders for Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Online Community of opportunity and should be accessible million as this issue went to press. (For later, Ohio Wesleyan University is the individuals and families for induction into a global society. In short, it is a season Vice President for University Advancement to all qualified students. With family the latest on campaign progress and heir to a legacy that has prepared the Founders’ Circle reminded us of the that calls for the values inherent in an Colleen Garland incomes stagnant and with dramatic priorities, visit owu.edu/campaign.) transformational leaders who have more recent legacies that sustain and OWU education, and for the leadership Chief Communications Officer characteristic of OWU alumni. Will Kopp It is toward these high purposes THE CONNECT TODAY, CREATE TOMORROW CAMPAIGN Editor that our celebratory weekend turned its WILL LEAD OHIO WESLEYAN INTO THE DYNAMIC AND Molly Vogel attention from a historic milestone to a [email protected]

course for Ohio Wesleyan’s future and RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD OF THE FUTURE, ALLOWING Director of Alumni Relations to the resources necessary to achieve OWU TO FULFILL ITS HIGH CALLING AS A PREMIER Katie Webster its destiny. The Connect Today, Create UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY THAT EDUCATES LEADERS Class Notes Editor Tomorrow campaign is the largest Amanda Zechiel-Keiber ’09 fundraising campaign in OWU history. FOR EVERY SECTOR OF OUR SOCIETY. [email protected] As its name suggests, this campaign will Editorial Assistant lead Ohio Wesleyan into the dynamic Anna L. Davies ’19 demographic changes in our society, the More importantly, I am inspired by the and rapidly changing world of the future, single largest element of the Connect lofty vision shared by our Board of Copy Editor allowing OWU to fulfill its high calling as Today, Create Tomorrow campaign Trustees and faculty. It is this vision for Andrew Sterling a premier undergraduate university that is endowments to provide financial the future that drives our campaign, educates leaders for every sector of our Designer assistance for academically talented and it is this vision that allows Ohio Walker Design & Marketing society. students whose families simply are Wesleyan to retain its historic position Throughout its history, the heart Contributing Photographers unable to fully fund a college education. as a beacon of hope for an increasingly Sara Blake, James DeCamp, Lisa DiGiacomo, and soul of Ohio Wesleyan has been This commitment serves our students; it complex, interrelated, and interesting Cole Hatcher, Maddie McGarvey, reflected in the strength of its teaching Mark Schmitter ’12, Paul Vernon, Reilly Wright ’20 also advances the common good. world. faculty. We must ensure that we continue Our physical campus is our laboratory As you read this issue of OWU Contributing Writers to recruit and retain the very best faculty, Anna L. Davies ’19, Kathy Lynn Gray, Molly Vogel for learning. While the digital age offers Magazine, I invite you to consider your President Rock Jones (center) chats with Cara Harris ’18, who traveled to Uruguay on a faculty who are devoted to students and Theory-to-Pratice Grant in May and will serve as president of Wesleyan Council on Student important opportunities for learning place in this legacy, and I invite you to Editorial Board to the enterprise of teaching, who ensure Affairs in 2018. Pictured behind, from left: Ahmed Hamed ’19 and Ben Whitbourn ’19. through technology, there remains no join us as, together, we Connect Today, Dale Brugh, Mike Plantholt, excellence in our curriculum, and who Eugene Rutigliano, Nancy Bihl Rutkowski substitute for the experience of engaged, and Create Tomorrow. changed the world. Consistent with the advance our historic commitments. have the courage and vision to innovate face-to-face learning in the period of Office of University Communications in ways that respond to the changing language of our charter, our mission While we celebrate the rich history transition from late adolescence to full (740) 368-3335 today calls us to offer an education we inherit, this ultimately is a time for needs of our time. adulthood. The college campus is one of Alumni Relations Office Central to this vision is The OWU grounded in the liberal arts, accessible looking forward. Today we look to a America’s most important treasures. We (740) 368-3325 to all qualified students, and designed to future that retains our historic values Connection, Ohio Wesleyan’s signature Rock Jones [email protected] must continue to invest in our campus, President, Ohio Wesleyan University serve the public good. and offers an education that prepares program pairing rigorous classroom preserving our magnificent historic Twitter: @owu_rockjones Website: www.owu.edu In October, more than 1,000 students for leadership in the middle instruction with robust, practical, real- OWU Magazine: owu.edu/magazine alumni and friends of OWU returned of the 21st century. Today’s students world experiences. Through The OWU The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine ISSN 0030-1221 to campus to celebrate the 175th will enter a workplace that will be Connection, students are challenged anniversary of our founding and the transformed by artificial intelligence and to think big (learning to solve complex public launch of the Connect Today, big data. They must graduate with both global problems with intellectual Share Email us at OWU Magazine Letters may Printed on recycled paper Create Tomorrow campaign. As with the skills requisite for their first job and versatility), go global (developing the your [email protected], Office of Communications be edited for tweet to @OhioWesleyan 61 S. Sandusky St. any historic anniversary, the occasion the capacities necessary to adapt and capacity for international engagement) opinions. length and or send us a letter: Delaware, OH 43015 clarity. gave us an opportunity to look back, to grow as the job landscape changes and and get real (gaining hands-on recall our founding values, to celebrate they ultimately work in settings most of experience through internships and 4 | OWU Letters From the JAYwalk WINTER 2018 | 5

anchored by the great national cross Running circles around Six degrees of OWU Entrepreneur Daymond John of TV’s Shark Tank addressed a packed country champion Quentin Brelsford!” Since my husband, Bruce Griffith ’78, the big guys Gray Chapel on Oct. 19 for OWU’s 2017-2018 Milligan Family Leaders in Business Your “Bishop Battles” article about the I ran in the No. 3 spot because I and I are one of the many couples to Lecture sponsored by the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and cross country team of the late 1940s was the slowest of the four of us. But meet at OWU, I read your recent “OWU brought back a lot of fond memories. I handed off the baton to “the great – I Do” feature with interest. I was Entrepreneurship. John, the founder and CEO of the FUBU clothing brand, After Quentin Brelsford ’48 won the Quentin Brelsford.” We won a lot of perusing the story of Janet Wallace discussed “5 Shark Points: Fundamentals for Success in Business and Life.” national championship, he almost races. We got a few medals and we got Lapp ’55 and Robb Lapp ’54, when I became a folk hero with his collegiate our egos inflated, all because of “the was brought up short. The surprising success. great Quentin Brelsford.” We also gave sentence simply stated, “On Saturday He was a sportswriter’s dream: sportswriters a lot of material to write (1955), we were married by my father in returning war hero, almost too humble, about that little college in Ohio. Quent Littleton, N.H., in the Methodist church the little college runner against the big put us on the map! he served.” As it happens, Bruce and university boys. He and his beautiful The other runners on that mile I were married in that same church in new wife lived in “Vet Village” with their relay team were Gene Blackburn ’48, 1978! classmates from Ohio “what?” University the Ohio Conference 440-yard dash I was born in 1956 in Littleton and from “where?” champion from Delaware, Ohio; Dick lived there until my marriage. My The pressure was on our track coach Hiler ’49, the Ohio Conference 800-yard family attended the Littleton Methodist and athletic director, George Gauthier, champion; and me, Bob Gardner ’51, the Church, where my mother was the to showcase this new self-taught Ohio Conference 100-yard and 220-yard organist for over 30 years. Although phenomenon to the track world. Our champion. We were pretty good, but the I have no personal memory of Rev. coach had to parade Quent in front of star of the show was Quentin Brelsford. William Wallace, I remember his name the world at the big indoor meets of the No ifs, buts, or doubts about it. from conversation. My much older Midwest. He was running against the Bob Gardner ’51 sister suggests that unless the Lapps big boys. Dublin, Ohio had an organist friend who played at There was a problem, though. How their wedding, it is extremely likely does little Ohio Wesleyan University 70th reunion a highlight that my mother (Mary Roberts) did the afford to send Quent all over the You are surely to be congratulated honors, and that Rev. Wallace almost country? Here’s the solution: OWU fills on the magazine of OWU. In May, my certainly performed my infant baptism up the station wagon and takes along daughter drove me to my 70th class the next year! three other guys to run the mile relay reunion. It was one of the highlights Elaina Griffith ’78 against the other small-college relay of my life. I got to head the parade of Greer, South Carolina teams. At the races, the public-address classes in a golf cart with my daughter in system announcers even blasted out, the back seat. I was the only one there “And now, the mile relay team event from my Class of 1947. You and the rest featuring Ohio Wesleyan University, of OWU really rolled out the red carpet for all the alumni. I am very proud of OWU and glad to be an alumna of it. Thank you, OWU. Marilyn S. Nelson ’47 Joy, Illinois

Spirit of community lives on I just wanted to take a minute to tell everyone involved in this magazine how much I enjoyed the Fall edition. My son Jax Harville ’20 is a sophomore at OWU. We love the history, community, and lifestyle more than we can explain. Thank goodness he is already going there; after reading the “OWU I Do” and the “Dear older me...” articles, we all would have deeply regretted any other Patrons enjoy the public art exhibit “The Shadows We Cast,” featuring architectural-scale The House of Black Culture hosted an choice. This school is so special, and video projected nightly onto the façade of the Ross Art Museum, Sept. 20 through Oct. 31. all-campus cookout on Aug. 26. To read Quentin Brelsford ’48 on Oct. 21, your magazine does an incredible job when his 1946 men’s cross country The continuously looping 12-minute video used a montage of archival documents to explore about plans for renovating the house, team was honored as part of the of explaining why. Thank you for the changes to labor and leisure practices at two different periods in U.S. history. Artists Tiffany see Page 21. inaugural Team of Distinction. Brelsford excellent read. The Griffiths in their senior yearbook Carbonneau and Susanna Crum used materials culled from the archives of the Delaware Jodi Harville P ’20 is wearing his original school cardigan. picture, taken in the fall of 1977 on the County Historical Society and the OWU Historical Collection. Marion, Ohio lawn of University Hall, and today. 6 | OWU From the JAYwalk From the JAYwalk WINTER 2018 | 7

Leading up to the public kickoff of the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign on Thursday: OWU Connection Friday, Oct. 20, students were invited to join the celebration with a series of events designed to draw Students were invited to take The OWU Connection theme of “Think attention to the priorities of the campaign. (Giant hamster balls were involved.) Big, Go Global, Get Real” literally and participate in human hamster balls on the JAYwalk. Merrick Mentors were on hand to answer students’ questions about the program (read more on Page 14). Monday: Scholarships Think big, indeed. Kari Lynn Seymour ’18 goes for a roll. To highlight the scholarship component of the campaign, Charlie Lennon ’18 (right), a theatre and dance major, played the interrogator for a “Bishop on the Street” video that asked students if they could identify Kevin Paskavan (center) and correctly name his role as director of financial aid to win $1. See the video at owu.edu/magazine

Tuesday: Professors The third annual i3 (i-cubed) mini-lecture series featured 10 professors selected by students to give three-minute presentations with ideas, insight, and imagination on a topic of their choosing. With standing-room-only crowds in the Benes Rooms, the event is a bigger draw each year. Featuring topics such as “How theatre can change the world,” by Ed Kahn (right), professor of theatre and dance, it’s a showcase for OWU’s talented faculty. Watch the videos at owu.edu/i3.

Wednesday: Friday: Capital Celebrating improvements 175 years A putt-putt course with holes Students joined representing the various capital members of the improvement priorities of the Board of Trustees, campaign filled the lawn outside Alumni Board, Beeghly Library, fostering faculty, and staff for appreciation for the campaign a free campus-wide and inviting some friendly lunch to celebrate competition. 175 years. They had cake, and ate it too. WINTER 2018 | 9

THE CAMPAIGN FOR OHIO WESLEYAN

ore than 175 years ago, Ohio Wesleyan University began educating young minds. A lot has changed Together, we will enhance our great University to create a new level of global, positive impact while M since then. creating life-changing opportunities for students of today and tomorrow. But what hasn’t changed, what remains a constant and steadfast demand, is the need for Ohio Through the seven-year $200 million Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign, we seek to ensure Wesleyan graduates – those women and men who are ready to tackle global challenges – to form new continued scholarship support for the 97 percent of our students who rely upon it, enhance the global and lasting connections that shape their lives and strengthen our communities, our nation, and our world. and practical experience of The OWU Connection, recruit a new generation of talented faculty while To continue moving forward, Ohio Wesleyan seeks to enhance its historic commitment to a liberal arts encouraging the professional development of our current professors, create or revitalize iconic structures education with new programming and spaces reflective of the changing ways in which students learn, the across campus, and support Annual Giving, which makes up approximately 10 percent of our operating world in which today’s students will live and work, the role of technology in education, and the economic budget each year. realities of our time. For more on the campaign and to see our latest progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign. 10 | OWU THE CAMPAIGN FOR OHIO WESLEYAN WINTER 2018 | 11

WENDIE MALICK ’72 RETURNS FOR KICKOFF HOSTING DUTIES LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Noted actress also took time to talk shop with students A weekend 175 years in the making For one of the biggest events in recent Ohio Wesleyan history, one of its biggest stars lent her wattage. o formally kick off the public phase of the seven-year Connect cover, Pages 7, 29) the big moment came that evening when the Actress Wendie Malick ’72 returned to campus for the first Today, Create Tomorrow campaign, we invited everyone. The total raised in the three-year leadership phase of the campaign T time in 12 years to help kick off the public portion of the Connect kickoff’s timing on Oct. 20 during Homecoming and Family Weekend was revealed during a party in Edwards Gymnasium. The party Today, Create Tomorrow campaign, serving as emcee at two was designed to encourage as many alumni, family, friends, and also featured the debut of a special four-minute campaign video, events. faculty and staff to take part in the festivities as possible. After the which can be viewed at owu.edu/campaign. Board of Trustees’ noon vote to take the campaign public (see inside And, although she flew in on a redeye from her home outside Los Angeles on a Friday morning and had to return 36 hours later, President Rock Jones had some she paused during her Delaware whirlwind to sit down with a help from the students of the Ohio group of theatre and dance students to share career advice, the Wesleyan University Student Alumni importance of getting politically involved (civilly), and her guiding Association to reveal how much had been raised toward the $200 principle “never forget to have fun.” million campaign goal during the After graduating from OWU, Malick moved to Washington, three-year “quiet” leadership phase D.C., and worked for Jack Kemp, the congressman from her home of the campaign: $140,001,129, state of New York, during the height of the Watergate scandal. as of October 2017. For updated progress, visit owu.edu/campaign “It was fascinating, but I knew I did not want Malick stuck around after her hosting duties for an informal to go into politics,” she Q & A to talk about her career and path after OWU. recalled. Instead, her agents now factor in an actor’s social media following (she’s a “gradual ascent” to reluctant tweeter). stardom included She remembered her early days of protesting for women’s waitressing in New rights on campus and urged students to “find issues that are York and traveling the important to you and make your voice heard – in a calm way.” world for five years as Malick’s co-host for “Spotlight OWU,” an informal program a Wilhelmina model, that highlighted some of the areas of emphasis for the campaign, before eventually being was Ares Harper ’19, a theatre and dance major who recently cast on a soap opera. concluded a starring run in Fahrenheit 451 on campus. Harper She has been working said the experience of sharing the spotlight with Malick was steadily for decades “surreal” and a reminder that “no matter where one’s life takes Ares Harper ’19, a theatre and dance major, shared emcee duties with Malick for since, starring on the you after you graduate, OWU stays with you. the “Spotlight OWU” program about the television series Dream “To be able to hold my own on stage and in the presence of University today and plans for the future. On, Just Shoot Me, and an award-winning actress, bonding over our Bishop pride, was Hot in Cleveland, among like no other experience,” he said. (Read about Malick’s latest many others. honor on Page 37.) In October, Malick wrapped a four-week run of Big Night, President Rock Jones expressed his appreciation for Malick’s a play by Paul Rudnick about chaos in a nominated actor’s life willingness to help make an important weekend in OWU history on Oscar night, in Culver City, California. She said there’s no that much more special. “That someone as busy as Wendie – comparison to the thrill of stage acting, although she noted not to mention the thousand-plus other alumni and friends who Maribeth Susan Palmer (left), who with her trademark throaty laugh that film and television are the Amrhein along with her husband returned for our big weekend – joined us to kick off our campaign Graham ’55, Thomas Palmer ’69, reasons she has a ranch with horses and donkeys. But no matter speaks to the lasting impact of the OWU experience,” Jones said. a life trustee, endowed a fund for The the setting, acting is “an opportunity to play with your friends and Malick, for her part, said she was happy to do it. And greets Bob the OWU Connection, enjoys tell stories.” although she was at ease and charming in her onstage OWU Bishop, who the balloon “tunnel” is dressed in from the Founder’s She discussed change, including in Delaware (“I can’t believe roles, she happily admitted of the opportunity to meet with formal wear for Circle ceremony to the you have an olive oil shop!”) and in the business, where casting current students: “It was my favorite part!” the kickoff party. kickoff party in Edwards Gymnasium, along with Colleen Garland, vice Wendie Malick ’72 and her “Gathering of Old Friends (GOOF)” who have remained close since OWU recently president for university established the GOOF Endowed Scholarship. The endowment provides unrestricted scholarship support in recognition of the advancement. profound lifetime impact of an OWU education. 12 | OWU STUDENTS WINTER 2018 | 13

CRAIG LUKE ’85 CREATES ENDOWMENT MAKING OWU FOR FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL Craig Luke ’85 grew up, as he describes it, in the inner city of student, but for first- Cincinnati, the youngest of six children. His grandparents were generation students it’s upport for students is the single biggest area of emphasis in the campaign because students are the single biggest area of emphasis in sharecroppers and his parents weren’t able to attend college, but even more challenging,” Severything we do. Attracting talented students with exclusive opportunities and ensuring that deserving students with limited or modest they were determined that their children would. he says, pointing to a lack means have access to OWU has been and always will be a priority. This is possible only through donor support. “For me, coming to Ohio Wesleyan was a big deal,” he says. of resources or even just Luke came to OWU sight unseen on the basis of scholarship the lack of someone to CAMPAIGN PRIORITY | Scholarships and financial aid | GOAL: $50 million support and, after pledging Delta Tau Delta, formed friendships offer guidance about time- that have lasted decades. He majored in accounting and literature management, studying, For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign and went on to earn his master of business administration degree and budgeting. from the Scheller College of Management at the Georgia Institute “I think it’s very of Technology before going into a successful career in banking important that first- supervision and regulation. He’s now group vice president with generation students have ECON FELLOWS ON BUSINESS FAST TRACK Sun Trust Bank. that opportunity, and (my hope is) this scholarship While the rest of campus is returning from winter break and a fully paid trip to New York City with faculty to visit the Federal Through the years, he has volunteered extensively for OWU, can help alleviate some preparing to tackle the next semester, Lyndsay McMullen ’19 Reserve and meet with alumni in business and government. including serving as president of the Alumni Association Board of of that financial need they will be going to work in a downtown Columbus office building “It’s just awesome to see the opportunities you get from EMF,” Directors; he’s also a member of the Board of Trustees. Craig Luke ’85 talks about the scholarship have. and getting course credit. Her internship with Pricewaterhouse McMullen says. Luke reflected on his own experience in making a $100,000 he created during Spotlight OWU on Oct. 21. “(Alumni) are all so Coopers during the busy tax season is the continuation of “I’ve gotten to meet so many amazing alums who are excited gift along with his wife, Eloise, to create an endowment to support passionate about this place because we know what it’s done for us a trajectory she began as a first-year student when she was to talk to us and just help in every single possible way they can.” first-generation college students. “I want to help them come here and want others to experience that as well,” Luke says. Count Kevin McGinty ’70 and his wife Nancy Collinson and thrive, as I did,” he says. McGinty among the supporters who are finding multiple ways “We all know transitioning to college is challenging for any to increase opportunities for today’s students. The couple from Moreland Hills, Ohio, are serving as co-chairs of the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign and made a $500,000 campaign gift that includes an endowment for the EMF program, in recognition of Kevin McGinty’s long-standing service on the Alumni Advisory Board of the Woltemade Center and as a 97% of OWU member of the University’s Board of Trustees. “I’m a real advocate in making sure that we marry what’s students receive being taught in the classroom with what takes place in the world,” McGinty says. some form of “Particularly in the field of economics and business, it’s becoming increasingly important to have that knowledge while financial aid students are still being instructed.” Turner Johnson ’21 is enjoying the in-depth introduction to the field. “I think EMF has done a great job of showing so many aspects of business that I’ll get a great view of what’s out there,” At the annual Donors and Scholars Brunch, a chance for those who have established endowments to meet the beneficiaries, (from he says. left) Kevin McGinty ’70 and Nancy Collinson McGinty visited with Johnson and his parents met the McGintys at the annual TYPES OF SUPPORT the Economic Management Fellows their gift supports, including: Donors and Scholars Brunch during Homecoming and Family Lyndsay McMullen ’19, Sophia Ahmed ’21 and Turner Johnson ’21. Weekend in October, in which endowment fund donors or NEED-BASED AID MERIT-BASED AID RETURNING STUDENT AID contacts have the opportunity to meet the students and faculty Of our 2017-18 first-year class, 22 percent In the competitive higher education A family’s financial situation can change. A selected as an Economic Management Fellow (EMF). who benefit from their gifts. of students come from families earning landscape, scholarships for high-achieving parent might lose a job or a sibling might The highly selective EMF program offered through the Turner’s mother, Julia Johnson, says, “It’s so fun to see how less than $40,000 annually, another 15 students can be the deciding factor go off to college, prompting an enrolled Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship excited the McGintys are about the program…which I think is percent come from households earning when choosing a school. Ensuring that student to struggle with bills. Helping was created in 2008 and accepts only 15 to 20 first-year students another thing that differentiates OWU: You can just tell from less than $70,000 a year – creating an OWU can compete for these students, OWU students remain on track through each year, many of whom also receive merit-based scholarships. the very beginning how passionate they are about helping the enormous challenge for parents who still with scholarships and rigorous academic graduation is a critical emphasis of the Fellows are introduced to the resources of the Economics students beyond their college time.” must pay an average of $9,521 in tuition options, helps to raise the intellectual bar campaign, and a daily focus of everyone Department through a seminar exclusive to them and travel on and other expenses each academic year. on campus as a whole. who works with students on campus. 14 | OWU STUDENTS WINTER 2018 | 15

OWU’s signature CROSSING NEW BORDERS CONNECTING program lets Chloe Dyer ’18 knew she wanted to study abroad when she was On another trip as a freshman, this one for service to the students create looking at colleges. She knew it would be somewhere Spanish- U.S.-Mexico border, she learned about the San Patricios, a group of Irishmen who deserted the United States and switched sides their own speaking so she could hone her fluency in the language, and she 2 was interested in Ireland, where her great-grandparents were in the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s. Dyer found THE adventures from, but her direction was connections from Irish literature and history to the effects of WORLD vague. undocumented migration and border enforcement policies on Then she learned about border communities. She also explored similar concepts of he OWU Connection is a distinctive four-year program that program distinct in its support for students’ unique ideas and The OWU Connection. migration and diaspora and their effects on national identity. She Toffers students a clear connection to the life they want after skills. The Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign seeks to Based on the global and applied for funding through the small grant program and spent graduation and helps them find that direction when it isn’t expand student and faculty access to these funding opportunities real-world opportunities quite clear. and experiences. Campaign co-chairs John Milligan ’83 and available through the “Looking back now as a senior, that Students can craft a personalized degree plan from more Kathie Bradford Milligan ’83 made a $5 million gift to support the program, after being than 90 majors and will leave OWU better prepared to enter the program when the campaign began three years ago. Their gift, accepted to the honors (Travel-Learning Course) basically workforce thanks to The OWU Connection’s signature, guided along with those of many other donors, helped create 54 Travel- program and receiving experience: a guaranteed, and often funded, opportunity to gain Learning Courses and other Connection experiences. the prestigious Schubert informed the entire rest of my real-world skills through an internship, service project or original The planned development of the OWU Career Connection Scholarship for exceptional college career and what I want to do research project, and robust options to study abroad — all of which Center in Slocum Hall (a $10 million campaign goal, Page 26), first-year students, Dyer connect ideas to meaningful actions. will help fully realize OWU’s commitment to a practical liberal arts chose to come to Ohio after college.” These real-world projects are supported with Theory-to- education with a center dedicated to fostering pathways from the Chloe Dyer ’18 Chloe Dyer ’18 on a trip to the Plaza de Wesleyan. The freedom, Practice Grants and other funding opportunities, making the classroom to meaningful employment after graduation. España in Seville, Spain, during her study flexibility, and faculty abroad in February 2017. support offered by The the summer after her freshman year back on the border, working OWU Connection allowed with a humanitarian organization that provides water to people TURNING AN INTERNSHIP INTO EMPLOYMENT Dyer to craft a course of study that linked Ireland to Mexico, with attempting the treacherous journey across the Sonoran Desert. visits to both countries and to Spain, Arizona, and Tanzania in She pursued these themes further with the help of a Theory- Trey Olsen ’18 decided to come to Ohio Wesleyan to pursue two In between the 12-hour between. Her experiences and related coursework helped her to-Practice grant applied for in her sophomore year. She fulfilled very specific interests: soccer and finance. He was impressed by days there was time for a discover and pursue her interest in questions of nationalism and her pre-college hopes of studying abroad by spending a the history of the soccer program under Coach Jay Martin and few intern happy hours, national identity, sociopolitical imagination, migration, diaspora, semester in Granada, Spain, at the Centro de Lenguas Modernas, was quickly interested in the Economic Management Fellows a San Francisco Giants and how we define, justify, and view ourselves. with additional grants before and after to continue her study of program. game, and a cable-car Dyer’s OWU Connection experience began as a freshman the San Patricios. She did all this while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. “Financial services fits for me. It’s super fast-paced, super ride. “I made an effort when she enrolled in the 300-level English Travel-Learning The culmination of her experiences was her Spanish senior competitive, it’s constantly evolving; that’s something I really to meet as many people Course “Slouching Toward Empire: The Literary Politics of honors thesis “A Line in the Sand: Personal Narratives of the enjoy,” Olsen says. as possible,” he says. “I Ireland,” taught by associate professor of English Nancy Comorau, U.S.-Mexico Border,” which she presented at the Ohio Latin As a benefit of being in the program, in the fall of his junior was grabbing partners, who says: “Working with students like Chloe is the reason I work Americanist Conference in Columbus in October. year, Olsen was invited to apply for an internship at Makena analysts, anyone I could, at a small liberal arts college.” Juan Armando Rojas Joo, professor of modern foreign Capital Management LLC in Menlo Park, California, a $19 billion for coffee or lunch several Dyer’s class traveled to Ireland and Northern Ireland to languages, says Dyer’s presentation was very well-received. global-endowment-style investment firm whose client base times a week to make sure explore the places they had studied. “Just to be in Dublin and “Chloe’s keen anecdotes about interviewing different includes five of the world’s largest sovereign wealth pools, high I could pick their brains.” read James Joyce’s Ulysses and then walk and be literally border characters such as immigration agents, advocacy profile family offices, and academic-affiliated endowments. In As much as he loved retracing the steps of the character in the book … It fulfilled and humanitarian organization members, church volunteers, Trey Olsen ’18 other words, the big leagues. his time there, Olsen was everything we learned about in the classroom,” she says. landowners, and human rights activists were well-accepted by The paid internship typically attracts students from top allowed to cut short his experience, leaving after six weeks to join The Travel-Learning Course also opened her eyes to the national and international scholars, and graduate students were universities, such as Stanford and Yale, and has included a the soccer team on its once-every-three-years trip to Germany. possibilities of The OWU Connection. “I think that made me engaged and enjoyed listening to her research findings,” he says. student from Ohio Wesleyan for the past five years, thanks to He knew that two other OWU students, Mainza Moono ’15 realize that these were really neat opportunities and I had access Now, Dyer is applying for fellowships to attend graduate Kevin McGinty ’70, a member of the OWU Board of Trustees and and J. Graham Littlehale ’17, had turned their Makena to them,” she says. Dyer, from Guysville, Ohio, now works as a school, with hopes of going on to law school in a year or two. a co-chair of the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign, who internships into job offers, but he tried not to get his hopes up. “Merrick Mentor,” helping students chart their course through the She wants to become a human rights lawyer, possibly with an has a relationship with the folks at Makena and urged them to But after returning to campus for his senior year, Olsen got the Connection. emphasis on immigration issues. She draws a straight line to consider OWU students. call and accepted full-time employment after graduation as an In many ways, Dyer represents the potential of the program, her future back to her first OWU Connection experience, saying: Olsen was excited to secure one of the nine intern spots analyst for Makena. which allows for guided, personalized exploration of interests with “Looking back now as a senior, that (Travel-Learning Course) offered and traveled to Menlo Park, about a half-hour south of So while his friends are reviewing their resumes and working a global lens. She is double majoring in Spanish and pre-law, with basically informed the entire rest of my college career and what I San Francisco, this past summer. on interview prep, Olsen has been able to focus on other things, a politics and government minor. want to do after college.” The 10-week program was intense. “It wasn’t just intern like soccer, exactly as he intended when he came to OWU. busywork off to the side. You were working directly for the “I try not to use the word ‘perfect,’ but it’s a very ideal start for analysts and partners, and that allowed you to get different me,” he says. CAMPAIGN PRIORITY | The OWU Connection | GOAL: $35 million exposure to different asset classes,” Olsen says. For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign 16 | OWU PROFESSORS WINTER 2018 | 17

MAKING OWU PLACE TO THE BEST TEACH o matter the era of attendance, every OWU student has and retain our existing faculty is vital to our shared future. Whether N a favorite professor – or two or three. Professors help through endowed chairs that elevate professors and secure their connect students to their life’s passion and lead to new ways of positions in the OWU tradition, or through paid time off to pursue thinking. But with one-third of our current professors approaching professional projects, campaign gifts help to ensure that OWU retirement age in the next decade, the need to attract new talent students learn from the very best.

To hear him tell it, Herbert “Bert” DuPont ’61, an expert in ELEVATING FACULTY WITH A PERMANENT GIFT the field of infectious diseases and holder of the Mary Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Medical Science at the University of Texas ENDOWED CHAIRS FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS SCHOLARLY LEAVE School of Public Health, barely made it through Ohio Wesleyan. AND PROFESSORSHIPS With significant philanthropic Just as students benefit from learning “I almost flunked out of the school; it was very close whether The tradition of endowing positions goes investment, four faculty fellowships, outside the classroom through travel I was going to make it the second year. But the school stuck with back to 1502 in England with chairs in one for each division, will be created to abroad or internships, faculty are me. I figured it out, I went on, and I’m appreciative of that,” he divinity at Oxford and Cambridge, created by support professors at all levels as they energized when provided the time to says. Margaret, Countess of Richmond. At the time, explore their own academic areas of devote to significant work in their field. He met Margaret “Peggy” Wright DuPont ’61 at OWU, and the idea was to give endowed professors interest and professional development. The endowed fund allows a faculty is appreciative of that, too. an elaborate chair from which to lecture. Each three-year fellowship will allow member a semester away from classroom For the DuPonts, philanthropy and giving thanks to the place The first endowed chair in America was the the chosen faculty member time responsibilities to complete work on an Hollis Professorship of Divinity at Harvard, that has meant so much in their lives was never a question. They to complete work on a significant established professional project. established by London merchant Thomas established a scholarship in 1990 in honor of Peggy’s parents, professional project. An endowment Hollis in 1721. Today, endowed faculty both of whom also attended OWU, as did both her grandfathers. will help offset the salary and benefits positions provide a means to attract and For their recent campaign gift, they began with a simple idea: of the holder and will also include a retain the very best faculty. For the professor, stipend to support his or her work. “We believe in people,” Bert says. they provide a recognized mark of distinction. “We wanted to identify bright faculty who could have major impact on tomorrow’s leaders.” They created the Herbert L. and Margaret E. DuPont Endowed Professorship in Biological Sciences with their campaign gift to 40 years later: Hundreds honor Benjamin Spencer realize that goal. Benjamin T. Spencer was arguably Ohio who remembered and loved Spencer as “We wanted to do all our gifting while we can enjoy it, we can (From left) President Rock Jones with Margaret “Peggy” Wright Wesleyan University’s most beloved a teacher and a mentor. Today there are see it, we can feel it,” Bert DuPont says, noting another benefit: DuPont ’61 and Herbert DuPont ’61, along with the holder of their and respected professor at the time of 440 individual and organizational donors “And we have tax advantages while we’re still working.” newly endowed professorship, David Markwardt, associate professor of his retirement in 1969, after teaching to the Spencer Professorship. Anyone zoology, and Markwardt’s wife, Rachel Dwyer, at the formal installation They visited campus in April 2017 to participate in the formal Shakespeare and American literature at can make a gift to an already established dinner for the position in April. OWU for 39 years. Spencer, who died in endowment. Endowed professorships program in which David Markwardt, associate professor of zoology, was named to their endowed professorship. Markwardt, so proud to see them giving back. Maybe someday I’ll be able to 1996 at the age of 92, was the first OWU and chairs recognize the achievements of who joined the OWU faculty in 2003, called it an honor for him look at students who are giving back in the same way and think I professor to have an endowed chair the holder and help OWU maintain a high and for the University. “I know (the DuPonts’) professors would be had some small part of that,” he says. established in his honor during his lifetime. standard of excellence in teaching and The Benjamin T. Spencer Professorship research. in Literature was created in 1978. Today Under the terms of the Spencer OWU has 54 endowed chairs and professorship, a member of the English CAMPAIGN PRIORITY GOAL: $25 million | Recruit and retain the very best | professorships, including those in the Department faculty is chosen to fill the For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign names of David Jennings, professor of Portrait of Benjamin Spencer chair for a two-year term, renewable once. history, as well as Libby Reed and Charles The incumbent is to deliver a yearly public Weis, professors of English; and many donors and their loved ones. lecture, which carries a stipend. The position is currently held The Spencer professorship was fully funded with a challenge by Karen Poremski, associate professor of English, who focuses grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and gifts, on Native American literature, women’s literature, and American pledges, life income gifts, and bequests chiefly from the students literature before 1900. 18 | OWU PROFESSORS WINTER 2018 | 19

Five in the new team-taught Introduction to Data Analytics course, five “How could you use government-survey data about professors from five different departments apply five different households to examine childhood poverty, for example?” he says. professors perspectives to give one well-rounded introduction to the Later in the class, he’ll show students how data can be misused. examine data subject matter. “If you’re constructing data analytics, what’s your “We wanted to give students a sense of the breadth of the responsibility? That’s what I want the students to wrestle with: TEAM analytics from field, the way that data analytics manifests itself in multiple how to use data analytics for good and not for evil.” all sides disciplines,” says Ashley Noelle Biser, associate professor of Sophomore Aidan Shumaker is taking the class to see PLAYERS politics and government. whether he’d like to pair data analytics with microbiology and Or, as mathematics and computer science associate professor have a double major. ith the creation of new majors and degrees to meet the shifting demands of today’s incoming students, as well as the continued Sean McCulloch explained, the class offers “a survey of all the “I like the fact that we have five professors a lot,” says enrichment of The OWU Connection, our faculty continually demonstrate their forward-thinking academic creativity and curiosity. W different things you can do with data analytics, which is using vast Shumaker, 19, of Loveland, Ohio. “Each one is teaching a different amounts of data to solve problems in your specific field.” side of data analytics, and you get different viewpoints.” He says In addition to Biser and McCulloch, Bob Gitter is handling the the weekly rotation of professors keeps the class interesting and economic implications; Scott Linder is tackling mathematics and lively. computer science; and Christian G. Fink, assistant professor of Sophomore Austin Moore, hasn’t decided on a major but physics, astronomy and neuroscience, is approaching the subject took the class because it counts as a science requirement for through his field’s lens. The five instructors were also involved in graduation and he’s interested in how data can be used in the creation of the data analytics major, which society. is new this year. “We’re being taught skills useful in the Dale Brugh, associate dean for innovation “(Team-teaching) gives real world,” says Moore, 18, of Los Angeles. and technology, worked with them to students the chance “By having five professors, we’re given a conceptualize the idea and help determine well-rounded background in the subject.” whether the university should and could offer to study the same Moore would like to see more computer it. “The use of data is becoming more and programming included in future years for more important to our society,” Brugh says. issue from different the class, but expects such tweaks will “There’s a need for students to understand come with time. “For the first time it’s been how to process the data and make decisions perspectives, and taught, they’re doing a good job of giving us based on data.” that’s invaluable.” a diverse experience,” Moore says. Brugh felt that, as a liberal arts university, Organizing what will be taught in the Bob Gitter, professor of economics Ohio Wesleyan could offer students an aspect class and when it will be taught has been of the major that larger institutions might not: time-consuming. “I teach one-fifth of the an understanding of the cultural, social and classes, but it’s more work than teaching one-fifth of a normal ethical impact of using data. “We want to produce graduates who class,” Gitter says. start asking questions about where the data came from, is it free While team-teaching is not new to campus, the intro class is of bias, should it be used to make certain decisions,” he says. the first with five professors that anyone can recall atWU. O That’s where the five professors from across campus come in. McCulloch says communication has been key. “We all want In her lectures for the class, Biser addresses the social, to be on the same page, and that’s taken a lot of work before the ethical, and political questions surrounding data, its collection class started,” he says. and how it is used. “I’m trained as a political theorist, and I was As the University strives to encourage such faculty innovation brought into this because I think a lot about the implications of through the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign – with technological progress,” she says. “I’m working with students on $12 million designated for that purpose – such an approach could the choices that are made in the collection of the data, in terms become more common. of areas like privacy and confidentiality. And then, what are the “If this is successful,” McCulloch says, “I might put out a call to ethical and political implications of how that data is used?” other departments to see if they’re interested in similar classes.” McCulloch gives students the nuts-and-bolts: basic Gitter hopes that happens; he already has some ideas about background in how databases work, then some simple computer classes he’d like to team-teach with professors in other majors. “It programing that could be used in data analytics. gives students the chance to study the same issue from different The professors tackling Gitter is showing students how to use software programs such perspectives, and that’s invaluable,” he says. “No one department data analytics as a team as Microsoft Excel to conduct data analytics as well as how to or field has all the answers, and that’s the beauty of a liberal arts talk shop. Back row from left: Scott Linder, analyze survey data. education.” Christian Fink, Sean McCulloch. Seated: Bob Gitter and Ashley Biser. CAMPAIGN PRIORITY | Faculty innovation | GOAL: $12 million For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign 20 | OWU CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS WINTER 2018 | 21

LIVING-LEARNING COMMUNITIES SHINE BRINGING Rowland Avenue: SLU-ville Rowland Avenue has been transformed with the addition of Nancy La Porte Meek ’59, Rich Alexander ’82, Mike

INTO TOMORROW HISTORY Capital improvements are transforming campus three new small living unit (SLU) duplexes. These spacious, free- McCluggage ’69, and Tim and Lisa Sloan P ’13, P ’16. standing buildings offer full kitchens, common areas for house The Jim and Eilleen Dicke House opened in August, with a nyone who has strolled the JAYwalk, or followed squirrels dramatic additions to campus, such as the Gillespie Honors meetings, and a mix of single and double bedrooms. In an OWU $1.5 million gift from Jim and Janet Dicke in honor of Jim Dicke’s Ascurrying along the paths leading to the residence halls, or House and Simpson Querrey Fitness Center, with plans calling concept dating back nearly 50 years, groups of 10 to 12 students parents. studied under the illuminating stained glass of the Slocum reading for overdue and vital updates to historically important structures come together around a theme to live together, participate in Charlie Lennon ’18, a theatre and dance major from Chagrin room knows just how beautiful, nurturing, and restorative the such as Branch Rickey Arena and the House of Black Culture. cultural and educational activities, and share their house’s mission Falls, Ohio, is part of the Sexuality and Gender Equality SLU in buildings and grounds of Ohio Wesleyan can be. From new residential facilities to complete renovations of with the greater OWU community. The SLU communities must the Dittrick House. “With us all together, the SLU community is The capital improvement priorities of the Connect Today, iconic campus buildings such as Merrick Hall, the improvements reapply to live in the Rowland Avenue SLU-plexes each year. just a hop, skip, and a jump away. We can talk to the other SLUs, Create Tomorrow campaign will ensure our historic campus is touch every area of campus, resulting in modern and inviting The Dittrick House opened in fall 2016, thanks to a interact with them more, and be able to have something beyond brought fully into the 21st century, ready to welcome the students living and learning environments and revitalized and shared $1.5 million gift from Doug Dittrick ’55, followed by the SLU-plex the family that’s within our own house,” he says. of tomorrow. spaces of which we can all be proud. at 94 Rowland made possible by gifts from Phil Meek ’59, “Now it’s a home that’s a block wide.” Significant philanthropic support has already resulted in

CAMPAIGN PRIORITY | Capital improvements | GOAL: $43 million Gillespie Honors House, 81 Oak Hill Robert W. Gillespie ’66 and Ann L. Wible Gillespie ’67, of community of students For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign Gates Mills, Ohio, returned to campus in October with their family with bright minds who are for the dedication of the Gillespie Honors House, made possible passionate about learning,” with their $2 million gift. said Huynh. The 6,934-square-foot two-story house has living space for 27 Sarah Watt ’19, a sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are part of the University’s biology and pre-med major Leland F. and Helen Schubert Honors Program, and seminar from Libertyville, Illinois, is space to benefit all honors students. also enjoying living in the Cindy Huynh ’19, a genetics and pre-med double-major and latest addition to campus. a chemistry and sociology double-minor from West Chester, Ohio, “It really surrounds me with a is the moderator of the house. In that role, she is working with her community that supports me housemates and the Student Honors Board to create educational in all of my studies; I really The dedication of the Gillespie events to host at the new residence. enjoy all of the friends I’ve Honors House on Oct. 19. “The Gillespie Honors House provides a space to foster a made here,” she says.

House of Black Culture, 65 Oak Hill The additions to Oak Hill Avenue will continue in 2018 with the the same majors as I do or were brought up the same way I was construction of a new House of Black Culture in the location brought up,” she says. Ohio Wesleyan University House of Black Culture of the current one. Since its creation in 1971, and subsequent Conceptual Design A committee is leading the ongoing fundraising initiative renaming as the Butler A. Jones House of Black Culture in 1994,October 11, 2017 for the house following a leadership gift by Ed Haddock ’69, the house has served an important role as a community and a member of the Board of Trustees, along with his wife, Edye, meeting space for students of color. and son, Ted, through their Edward E. Haddock Jr. Family Genaye Ervin ’19, a business Foundation. The committee is co-chaired by Morton administration, communications, and “Pete” Smith ’71, one of the founders of sports management major from the house and a former moderator; his wife Cleveland, chose to live in the house Barbara Smith ’74, Board of Trustees member to be around people with shared Aaron Granger ’93, and Khadija Adams experiences. “I felt like I would ’04, also a former moderator. To grow more here because I’m learn more or get involved, around people that have visit owu.edu/hbcupdates. Rendering of the planned new House of Black Culture, courtesy Thomas & Marker Construction. FRONT ENTRY

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CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES EDWARDS GYMNASIUM Investing in our students Investing in our professors Capital improvements Investing THE OWU CONNECTION SCHOLARSHIPS RECRUIT AND RETAIN FACULTY INNOVATION: SLOCUM HALL/CAREER SIMPSON QUERREY FITNESS RESIDENTIAL in each day AND FINANCIAL AID THE VERY BEST NEW AND ENHANCED CONNECTIONS CENTER CENTER, MERRICK HALL GOAL: $35 MILLION GOAL: $10 MILLION ANNUAL GIVING PROGRAMS This innovative curricular GOAL: $50 MILLION GOAL: $25 MILLION GOAL: $10 MILLION FULLY FUNDED Our unique living-learning GOAL: $35 MILLION program helps students Whether need-based or Help OWU recruit, foster, and GOAL: $12 MILLION The OWU Career Connections environments nurture students As we look to our bright BRANCH RICKEY ARENA connect academic theory merit-based, scholarships develop our greatest asset — With the creation of new Center will be dedicated to as collaborative, socially aware future together, we also GOAL: $3 MILLION Paths Background Trees Reds (brick) with real-world practice in and other financial aid can the people who educate, majors and degrees to meet fostering pathways from the citizens. The newly opened remain committed to a global context, through be the deciding factor in shape, and inspire our leaders the shifting demands of classroom to meaningful The eye-catching structure, Gillespie Honors House and maintaining our historic BRANCH RICKEY ARENA Travel-Learning Courses the college decision. Aid of tomorrow. We look ahead today’s incoming students, employment. Its location in named after the legendary three small living unit (SLU) campus on a day-to-day and Theory-to-Practice alumnus who helped break duplexes, including the Dittrick for returning students can to attracting the most promis- as well as the continued Slocum Hall near Admission basis. From landscaping to Dark blue Light blue Yellows Limestone tones (Slocum) Grants. Students also help ensure that students ing new educators to our enrichment of The OWU will send a clear signal to baseball’s color barrier, opened House and the Jim and Eilleen building maintenance, to MEEK AQUATICS apply classroom learning who love their OWU academic tradition, as well as Connection, our faculty prospective students and their in 1976. Renovation of the Dicke House, as well as the faculty and sta salaries, AND RECREATION CENTER through OWU Career experience but struggle retaining our existing talent in continually demonstrate their families that students will be iconic arena would give our planned new House of Black annual giving touches each Connections, career- student-athletes a new home Culture, are all thanks to financially are able to an increasingly competitive forward-thinking academic ready for their first job upon part of OWU, each day. Windows and roofs Warm grays (University Hall) related internships. complete their degrees. professional market. creativity and curiosity. completion of their degree. court on which to shine. leadership gifts.

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TOTAL GOAL | $200 million

Total progress (as of 12/8/17): *$144.4 million Goal Progress** Investing in our students $85 million $48.2 million Connecting our students to their dreams Scholarships and financial aid $50 million $33 million The OWU Connection $35 million $15.2 million

Investing in our professors $37 million $15.6 million For continued innovation in teaching and discovery Recruit and retain the very best $25 million $13 million Innovation: New and enhanced programs $12 million $2.6 million

Investing in our campus $43 million $27.4 million Capital Improvements Building our community with living-learning environments Merrick Hall $8 million fully funded Simpson Querrey Fitness Center $9 million fully funded Residential Facilities $10 million $7.7 million Slocum Hall/Career Connections Center $10 million $ (new priority) Innovative Spaces for Teaching & Learning $3 million $1.9 million Branch Rickey Arena $3 million $200,000

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*For updated progress please visit owu.edu/campaign **An additional $35 million has been raised but not yet designated.

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Slocum Hall/Career Connection Center l GOAL: $10 million MORE THAN TWO YEARS LATER, FULLY FUNDED The OWU Career Connection Center will be designed to fully from the classroom to meaningful employment after graduation. realize the University’s commitment to a practical liberal arts Designed to ensure that every student is able and encouraged to CAPITAL PROJECTS ARE VITAL PART OF CAMPUS education by creating a center dedicated to fostering pathways take advantage of real-world experience through an internship, Merrick Hall the center will further differentiate Merrick Hall serves as Ohio Wesleyan students’ gateway to the signature program. “Right in the midst of the academic side OWU from its peer institutions as one world, as the campus home to The OWU Connection. Streams of campus, it’s a historic academic building that current and that prepares students to be ready of students course through the lobby each day, catching up with prospective students identify with The OWU Connection,” he says. for professional careers on day one friends or with homework, talking to Merrick Mentors (student Students who have participated in multiple aspects of The after graduation. Internships offered advisors) about off-campus travel-learning, or grabbing coffee OWU Connection work in the lobby as Merrick Mentors, providing by alumni provide an opportunity for and food between classes (Merrick even has a cafe). advice to their peers considering Travel-Learning Courses, Theory- graduates to stay engaged with OWU Merrick embodies OWU history – the blue limestone was to-Practice Grants, or off-campus study opportunities. and share their experience with today’s locally quarried – while hosting the newest technology. The “I love working as a Merrick Mentor because I’m really thankful students. more-than-130-year-old building, which sat vacant for more than for all of the opportunities I’ve had to travel with The OWU The Career Connection three decades, was named after Frederick Merrick, president of Connection,” says Meg Teitelman ’18. Center’s location in Slocum Hall near Ohio Wesleyan from 1860 to 1873. An anonymous $8 million gift “I also love working in Merrick because it’s a great community the Office of Admission will provide a brought the 19,684-square-foot building into the 21st century with space at OWU,” she says. highly visible home sure to be noted by a complete renovation and reopening in 2015. prospective students and their families. The state-of-the-art classrooms on the second floor are used Renovation will breathe new life and for courses, presentations, meetings, and admission events. The purpose into the grand building, as has building’s third floor, once a natural science museum, is one of the already been realized on the first-floor best event spaces on campus, with vaulted ceilings nearly 22 feet Admission offices. high. In its down time, it’s a great study spot. A popular stop on student tours, the Merrick lobby boasts Branch Rickey Arena GOAL: $3 million interactive screens that display footage of student life and l academics. The Merrick porch offers one of the best views on The eye-catching structure opened floor, scoreboard, sound system, and campus, looking out on stately sycamores and colorful flower in 1976 and is currently home to heating and cooling. The locker rooms, beds, with rockers for studying or catching up with friends. the men’s basketball, women’s training room, lobby, and restrooms Darrell Albon, director of International and Off-Campus basketball, and women’s volleyball will also be renovated, making the The Merrick Hall lobby was updated with touch screens, offices for The Programs and administrative director of the OWU Connection teams, and soon to be home to structure as impressive inside as it OWU Connection staff, and a cafe as part of the $8 million renovation programs, says Merrick is a fitting home for the University’s completed in 2015. men’s wrestling next season. is outside. The renovation will help Renovation of the iconic area, named OWU remain competitive in attracting after the legendary alumnus who student-athletes to campus while Simpson Querrey Fitness Center and Edwards Gymnasium partnered with Jackie Robinson to providing them with the facilities to Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy spirit are three qualities of a facility as part of our FitOWU program,” Fink says. break baseball’s color barrier, will raise their competition to the next level. liberal arts education realized on campus in the Simpson Querrey Victoria Hilario ’19, is a triple major in exercise science, give student-athletes a new home Early support for the project has been Fitness Center. pre-medicine, and history, who also plays rugby and hopes court on which to shine. secured with an initial commitment The 12,774-square-foot complex, built with an $8 million gift to become a sports medicine doctor specializing in pediatrics The planned renovation will from Todd Luttinger P ’10, a member from Lou Simpson ’58 and his wife, Kimberly Querrey, combines after graduating. “I hope that Simpson Querrey continues to be include a complete update of the Architectural rendering of the planned renovation of of the Board of Trustees, and his wife with the renovated of Edwards Gymnasium as a hub of fitness, a space for HHK majors to study and a place to help those on arena, including bleachers, lights, Branch Rickey Arena, courtesy The Collaborative Inc. Tina Luttinger P ’10. education, and community since the dedication in October 2015. campus and in the community work towards their fitness goals,” “The facility has created another great space for the campus she says. Innovative spaces for teaching community to connect and interact, all in a healthy environment,” says Chris Fink, professor of health and human kinetics and chair GOAL: $3 million and learning l of the department. The department is housed on the main floor Renovating classrooms and other learning spaces across campus allows of the renovated and connected Edwards Gymnasium, which OWU to match the ways students learn today and the ways professors also has conference rooms and office space. Down the hall is interact with them. Whether through the integration of the latest technology the 4,350-square-foot fitness center, with cardio equipment, or redesign, support for creative thinking in the University’s laboratories for weight machines, and other high-end exercise equipment. The learning ensures they are worthy of the inquisitive students and professors Department of Theatre and Dance enjoys the new 2,425-square who occupy them. Spaces such as the noise-proof “ICEcube” presentation foot Jannuzi Dance Studio. room in Beeghly Library are designed with today’s students in mind. The SQ provides health and human kinetics majors with new glass-walled, soundproofed room on the first floor takes its name from opportunities to serve as leaders and instructors, putting “innovate, connect, and explore,” and features moveable dry erase boards, classroom learning into practice on campus. “Some of our a flat-panel monitor, and device-charging stations students lead faculty and staff through fitness programming in the 28 | OWU OWU Timescapes

ANNUAL GIVING Making a difference every day he Ohio Wesleyan Fund helps make up approximately 10 percent of the University’s annual operating budget. This covers T almost every part of daily campus life, including scholarships, building maintenance, and programming for students.

Tags were hung around campus the week leading up to the campaign kickoff on Oct. 20 to represent the beneficiaries of Annual Giving, including students like Peyton Larkin ’21.

1941 (Above) Renovations to Bashford and Thompson Halls, paid for through annual giving, included new paint, furniture, and other upgrades to the first-year dorms. As part of the YearOne Living Learning program, which provides extra support and guidance to first-year students as they transition to the college environment, these dorms have been refurbished to help build community.

scholarships furnishings lighting landscaping

CAMPAIGN PRIORITY | Annual Giving | GOAL: $35 million For details and progress, please visit owu.edu/campaign

2017 ALUMNI PARTICIPATION While it’s true that every dollar makes a difference, gifts from or email [email protected]. alumni have twice the impact: Alumni participation in giving is For example: Attend an event in your area, such as an OWU factored into college rankings by publications such as U.S. News vs. Denison lacrosse viewing party (a “small” way to support & World Report. Alumni can show their support of their alma mater social events). Or send congratulatory notes to admitted students A piece of history Students in 1941 celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ohio and help ensure the value of their degree by giving back. (a “medium” way to support Admission). Another way to help from left) Kevin J. McGinty ’70, Nancy Collinson McGinty, Wesleyan’s founding (for the 1941-42 academic year) with Kathie Bradford Milligan ’83, and John F. Milligan ’83, To read more about the many ways – Ohio Wesleyan is by offering an internship or a Homecoming parade float. In October, students, alumni, along with Melissa Lollar Jones and President Rock Jones, small, medium, and large – to stay engaged externship to a student. For more information friends, and faculty celebrated 175 years in grand style – were joined by representatives from all groups of campus with OWU, through career development, on the Bishop Launch program, contact Mindy with frosting! The co-chairs of the $200 million Connect stakeholders as members of the Board of Trustees voted to admissions, social events and service Agin, [email protected]. Today, Create Tomorrow comprehensive campaign (pictured take the campaign public, to much fanfare (and confetti). opportunities, and engagement in giving (CASE), please visit owu.edu/makethecase WINTER 2018 | 3331 a look back at 175 years at OWU

As we look to the future, these scenes from our archives of the past 175 years at Ohio Wesleyan show just how much things have changed — and how some things never will. Do you recognize yourself or a friend in these photos? Let us know on social media (see Page 34).

Class tug of war in the 1960s | 1960s

Merrick Hall | 1930s

Volleyball game | 1930s

Students play a game in a lounge | 1920

A group of female students | 1880s University Hall | early 1900s

A dink worn by freshmen | 1940s

Students cross campus in front of Students on the steps of University Hall | 1960s University Hall | 1950s

A student reads in the stacks Earth Day cleanup activities in Dishwater Run | 1970 of Beeghly Library | 1980s

A fraternity alumni group sings a serenade to the Kappas during Fallfest in 1990.

A fraternity alumni group sings a serenade to A student goes up for a catch in a A Vietnam War protest | 1969 A class discussion | 1984 the Kappas during Fallfest | 1990 Frisbee game | 2000s Students play beach ball during orientation | 2010s 32 | OWU Alumni Happenings Alumni Happenings WINTER 2018 | 33

More than 1,000 alumni, family, and friends returned to campus in October for the big Homecoming and Family Weekend 175 birthday during Homecoming and Family Weekend. The record crowds enjoyed owu.edu/alumni | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram affinity reunions and new traditions like the Battling Bishops Tailgate before the Denison game.

Honorary captain Bob Amoruso ’68 performs the coin toss to start the Parnelli Gard roots for her favorite player, her son Anthony Chambers ’18 (No. 34), From left) Leanna Bucceri Daniels ’10, Grant Daniels ’09, Sarah Bruno ’10, (From left) Sarah Busse ’99, Carrie Appel Huffman ’00, Julia Homecoming game against Denison (OWU lost 20-31, bummer). a defensive end. (Check out those nails.) Kim Leary ’09, and Amanda Zechiel Keiber ’09 at the Battling Bishops Tailgate. Metz Ward ’00, and September Howat ’02 at the Kappa reunion dinner.

Bob the Bishop snaps a selfie with lacrosse (From left) John Keltner ’61, Nancy Rickey Keltner ’61, (From left) Ann Armstrong Knodt ’61 and (From left) Bill Long ’69, Gary Smith ’67, and Rich Henley ’71 at (From left) Shikeri Gordon, Jacinta Lassiter P ’21, Bob the Bishop, and players (left) Ellen Falko ’18 and Cory Kinder ’18. and Evan Corns ’59 at the Battling Bishops tailgate. Marilyn Ellis Haas ’61 stroll down the JAYwalk. the tailgate. Tammy Cooper P ’21 at the tailgate.

(From left) Martin Tobias ’14, Matt Jeske ’16, Rob Reinhart ’15, Dre White ’14, Jon Griggs ’17, (From left) Xander Pacilio ’18, with his mom Paula Pacilio Newly inducted Associate Founders’ Circle members Richard Cassell ’64 Members of one of the inaugural OWU Teams of Distinction, the 1988 and Alex Briggs ’14 at the tailgate. and dad Chris Pacilio at the tailgate. and (right) Carolyn Colson Cassell ’64 with director of alumni relations Katie men’s basketball NCAA Division III National Champions: Casey Lee ’88, Webster (center) in Edwards Gymnasium for the campaign kickoff party. Mike Piatt ’88 (student coach on the team), and Scott Tedder ’88. Faculty Notes Faculty Notes WINTER 2018 | 35 CALENDAR of EVENTS The following is a listing of OWU alumni OLMSTEAD RIDES AGAIN WITH Kira Bailey, associate professor the length of antisense RNA on Pi Sigma Alpha/James I. Lengle Karen Poremski, associate events around the country. These of psychology, had three peer- bacterial enzyme production” Chapter Advisor Recognition professor of English, presented ACCLAIMED WESTERN NOVEL reviewed articles published accepted for publication in Award in the fall. the English Department’s events offer alumni, families, and friends Research & Reviews: A Journal Professor Robert Olmstead’s newest novel, Savage in 2017: “The State of the annual Spencer Lecture, titled opportunities to network with fellow of Biotechnology. Gulimina Mahamuti, part-time Country, is earning reviews that are anything but savage. The Science About Internet Gaming “Building Canoes, Building Bishops and to reconnect with OWU near assistant professor of music, professor of English and director of Ohio Wesleyan’s creative Disorder as Defined by DSM-5: Poetry: Cultural Revival in the Jennifer Jolley, assistant played several solo piano recitals your hometown. To RSVP for an event, writing program is drawing raves on the heels of his previous Implications and Perspectives; Voyages of Hokule’a and the professor of music, had the in the fall, one on Oct. 29 at please visit www.owu.edu/alumni or novel, Far Bright Star (Algonquin Books, 2010), which was “Multimedia Multitasking Is Poetry of Craig Santos Perez.” Michigan premiere of her piece First Congregational Church in named one of the top 10 Westerns of the decade by Booklist. Associated With Cognitive, Her lecture focused on the role call (740) 368-3325. The Eyes of the World Are Upon Mansfield, Ohio, as part of its Savage Country (Algonquin Books, 2017) features Psychological, Neural, and poetry played in decolonizing You, conducted by Jerry Junkin 2017-18 Concert Series, one on Olmstead’s first female protagonist, the widow Elizabeth Learning Differences;” and the literature and history of FEBRUARY 2018 with the World Youth Wind Nov. 4 on campus in Jemison Coughlin, seeking her independence in 19th-century America “Did I Do That: The Association Oceania, and the process of Symphony, at the Interlochen Auditorium, and one on Nov. 11 Feb. 17 | Royal Poinciana Golf Club, through a buffalo hunt in a desperate attempt to pay off her Between Action Gaming native writers using literature Center of the Arts on July 29. at Guzzetta Recital Hall at the Naples, Fla. late husband’s debts. The book is driven by historical themes Experience and Feedback as a form of resistance against University of Akron. While at the Red & Black Luncheon of economic exploitation and industrialization and is set in Processing in a Gambling Task.” colonial oppression. Justin Kronewetter, emeritus University of Akron, she also Connect Today, Create Tomorrow a post-Civil War nation that is just beginning the process of professor of art and emeritus taught a visiting piano master regional kickoff Reconstruction. Amy Butcher, assistant D. Glen Vanderbilt, professor director of the Ross Art Museum, class for music students. The author tells Kirkus Reviews: “I was attempting to get back to some kind of professor of English, had her of theatre and dance, is working will exhibit his photographic APRIL 2018 19th-century authorial distancing in the writing of the novel.” He believes the work essay “Gradient” — about on a new production for the artwork in a one-person Eva Paris-Huesca, assistant is his most somber since 2007’s Coal Black Horse, and he drew from Kenneth love, fear, and faith following a Columbus Children’s Theatre April 15 | Various Locations exhibition in the Wakeley Gallery professor of Spanish, had Roberts’ Northwest Passage, a book that inspired him as a writer when he was a May knife attack at Ohio State that will open in January OWU vs. Denison lacrosse viewing parties at Illinois Wesleyan University her article “Visiones child. University — published in the 2018 in the company’s Park from Feb. 26 to March 22, 2018, contemporáneas de la mujer Olmstead wanted to deconstruct the mystery often surrounding Reconstruction May 2017 edition of Brevity Street Theatre. He will serve and in the Crossroads Gallery criminal en las novelas de MAY 2018 in American history classes. “In my schooling,” he tells Kirkus, “we studied the Magazine. as the scene designer for at the University of Notre Cristina Fallarás y Empar Civil War and then jumped to World War I, as if nothing happened of importance in the professional production May 18-20 | On campus Dame from May 18 to July 20, Fernández,” examining the between.” Erin Flynn, associate professor company. This version of Little Reunion Weekend (celebrating classes 2018. Two of his artworks were modern take on the female “So much of who Americans are came out of that crucible of those years of philosophy, published Red Riding Hood by artistic ending in 3 and 8) included in the juried 2017 FAVA criminal presented by those between: We killed almost a million people over the notion that one class of human “Strategic Fouls: A New director William Goldsmith Photography Show in Oberlin, authors, published in La beings should not own another class of human beings.” Defense” in the October will take an original and clever Ohio, and six photographs globalización del crimen: JULY 2018 A sample of praise for Savage Country: 2017 edition of Journal of the look into the woods on the were included in an invitational literatura, cine y nuevos New York Times Book Review (October 2017) “Olmstead has a Dickensian Philosophy of Sport. Flynn’s way to Granny’s house as July 14 | Bay Harbor Golf Club, Bay exhibition mounted in the Palm medios (Andavira: Santiago sense of character… Such a quantity of characters can test any novelist — academic research includes the Red encounters several other Harbor, Michigan Beach Photographic Center in de Compostela, 2017). In managing their proportions and appearances so they maintain their own identity philosophy of morality in sports. characters from the Grimm fairy Red & Black Luncheon West Palm Beach, Florida, this addition, she worked with Ed and momentum while making room for everyone in the wings to reappear before He presented a mini-lecture on tales, all with humorous results. Connect Today, Create Tomorrow past spring. One of the works Kahn, professor of theatre and fading from memory. Olmstead admirably navigates this challenge.” a related topic on campus in regional kickoff 3 included in the Oberlin exhibition dance, on the translation and Kirkus Reviews (July 2017) gave Olmstead a starred review, saying the novel fall 2016 during the i series in Chris Wolverton, professor of won a special recognition juror’s adaptation of Bodas de sangre is “equal parts adventure tale, biblical narrative, and Greek tragedy” and that “the which professors are chosen botany-microbiology, had the award (below). (Blood Wedding) last fall and SEPTEMBER 2018 reader closes the book with a sense of cautious optimism; some of us survive, as by student vote to give three- article “The impact of substrate collaborated with Barbara Olmstead explains, ‘no matter how wounded.’ ” minute lectures on a subject of and irrigation interval on the September 12 | Various locations William Louthan, professor of Zecchi, director of the Spanish Amazon.com’s book editors picked Savage Country as one of their “Best of the their choosing. post-transplant root growth Welcome to the City politics and government and and Portuguese program in Month” choices for October. of container-grown zinnia advisor to the Upsilon Chapter the Department of Languages, Booklist, the long-running book-review magazine of the American Literary Lee Fratantuono, professor and tomato,” published in of the Pi Sigma Alpha national Literatures, and Cultures at the OCTOBER 2018 Association, says (September 2017) in a starred review: “There is a tragic ambiguity of classics, had two books the Journal of Environmental political science honorary, was University of Massachusetts, at the heart of Olmstead’s brutal but beautiful tale of the last buffalo hunt.” It also published, both with photos Horticulture. The article was October 5 -7 | On campus recognized for serving in that Amherst, on the video-essay compared him to other acclaimed authors of the Western genre, saying, “For a by Katie McGarr ’10: Lucullus: cowritten by Bruce R. Roberts, Homecoming & Family Weekend role for nearly 40 years. Louthan, “Mujeres en los orígenes del certain kind of uncompromising yet lyrical writer — think of Cormac McCarthy, The Life and Campaigns of a adjunct professor of botany- who joined the OWU faculty in cine / Women Pioneers of the Larry McMurtry, or William Kittredge — the West offers a stage for a special kind of Roman Conqueror (Pen & Sword microbiology, and Lauren Fall | On campus 1972, was presented the 2017 Camera: The Off-Screen.” Women of Wesleyan, owu.edu/wow archetypal, almost Shakespearean tragedy, and Olmstead makes the most of it.” Military, 2017), and Tacitus: Janowicz ’15. Wolverton also Bookish, a literary discovery site for book lovers and enthusiasts of all genres, Annals XVI (Bloomsbury Ltd., gave a lecture, “Characterizing featured Savage Country on its “Must-Read Books of Fall 2017,” saying: “Do you due in 2018). He also had three Plant Gravity Perception STAY CONNECTED dream about the West? Do you keep spurs in your closet and a lasso on the back articles published internationally Systems: An Overview of an in 2017: “Minerva in the Aeneid” EMCS Experiment,” at the OhioWesleyanUniversity | OhioWesleyanAlumni of your door? If so, then Robert Olmstead’s new novel is the ideal book to pick up this fall.” in Arctos (a classics journal European Space Agency’s published in Finland); “Apollo in Norwegian User Support & @OhioWesleyan | @OWUAlumni NY Journal of Books, an online book-review journal composed of a panel of top academics, accomplished critics, award-winning journalists and authors, and the Aeneid” in Eirene (a classics Operations Center in Trondheim, Ohio Wesleyan University Alumni & Friends established publishers (September 2017): “It is a textbook description of how journal published in the Czech Norway, on Aug. 25. He gave Republic); and “The Ambiguous a similar lecture at a virtual @OhioWesleyan | @OWUAlumni the buffalo was hunted nearly to extinction but without the hand-wringing angst of many writers… a literary achievement that describes the West and those who Arms of Aeneas” in Acta Classica joint symposium for the space OhioWesleyanU struggled to survive in its harsh environment. It is not for fans seeking a romantic Debreceniensis (a classics agencies that collaborate on view of the West, nor for those wanting a tradition shoot-’em-up. Savage Country is journal published in Hungary). research on the International [email protected] for the serious reader.” Space Station, hosted by NASA’s Jerry Goldstein, professor of Johnson Space Center, the Update your preferred email address to stay connected -A.L. Davies ’19 botany-microbiology, as well as home of the ISS Program Office, to OWU and receive important news, invitations to Emily McKenzie ’17, Andrew July 11-13. events in your area, and the latest on class affinity The deadline to submit Class Notes and Faculty Notes for the Smith ’17, and Nicholas Reed Justin Kronewetter’s Route 66 Neon, Tucumcari, New Mexico, 2016 reunions and activities at owu.edu/emailupdate Spring OWU Magazine is Feb. 2, 2018. Send to: [email protected] ’18, had a paper titled “Effect of won a juror’s award at the 2017 FAVA Photography Show. 36 | OWU WINTER 2018 | 37

reports in a concise time for other widowed people. Martha Deborah Franzen Hall frame. Spiller is a distinguished They meet once a month to ’63 is the author of 11 books 1970s professor emeritus at the plan day trips, dinner nights of poetry, including seven full- Victoria King Heinsen ’70 University of South Carolina out, and cultural outings. After length collections and four returned in July from a year of notes teaching in Taiwan. She was CLASS and an adjunct lecturer at serving First Presbyterian chapbooks. Her manuscripts Washington University. He and Church in Laurens, S. C., for have been finalists in contests recruited by the state of Ohio family friend drew her to OWU The book includes her hope to Richard Jackson ’53 published his wife, Elinor Harper Spiller many years as choir director, by Sarabande Books, the and the government of Taiwan 1930s from northwestern Illinois. She attend her 70th reunion in May the book The Rules in 2016 ’56, live in Ballwin, Mo. she has completely retired. Kathryn A. Morton Prize in to teach English to children in Charlotte Gallant ’39 writes: “We lived in a duplex 2017, which she was able to do (Rose Dog Books), a list of things She has taken several trips and Poetry, Able Muse, the Vernice remote areas where little or no celebrated her 100th birthday on owned by Mrs. Stuyvesant, who (see letter Page 4). those starting out in their life’s 1960s has more planned, including a Quebodeaux “Pathways” English is spoken. She lived July 27 in Delaware, Ohio at her was a major benefactor of Ohio work need to know, based on visit to the Holy Land in 2018 Poetry Prize, and the Concrete in a village in the mountains Willow Brook residence and later Wesleyan University and even discussions with college seniors. [Reunion note] Edith Mahon and an Alaskan cruise with a Wolf Chapbook contest (twice). of Nantou County, where she at the park that bears her name, had a residence hall named 1950s Davis ’63 reports that much 1963 OWU graduate after their Holding degrees from both enjoyed working with children thanks her gift of 83 acres two after her. My mother took David Puddington ’50 and Earl Spiller ’56 published his has happened in the past five reunion in May. She says OWU OWU and Columbia University, in grades three through nine. decades ago. the initiative and discussed D. Jean Hinton Puddington ’51 seventh accounting textbook years. Her husband of 43 years, prepared her in many ways, she is a member of the Although she was invited back, my future with her. Through celebrated their 65th wedding (co-authored with Ron King at Joseph, died of a brain tumor in including how to survive in Academy of American Poets, she decided to stay in the United States with her family. 1940s Mrs. Stuyvesant, I was anniversary on Aug. 31. Washington University in St. February 2016. Joseph loved to the working world. Her best the Poetry Society of New awarded a full scholarship to Louis). Financial Reporting: First read, travel, attend concerts, eat memories include friends and Hampshire, and the Monadnock Marilyn Sturdivant Nelson ’47 college. …Graduating from Ezra Vogel ’50 was inducted in Take is used in executive MBA out, etc. Although her life has classmates who were musicians Writers’ Group. Niki Gnezda ’73 was featured published her life story in the college is one of my proudest the Delaware (Ohio) City Schools programs worldwide to equip greatly changed, Davis has been in Sanborn Hall, where she also in The Columbus Dispatch on book Green Stamps and the accomplishments and has Distinguished Alumni Hall of business managers with a basic instrumental in organizing “Next worked part-time in the music Sept. 8 as part of its “Everyday Wringer Washer, including how a opened many doors for me.” Fame on Sept. 15. understanding of financial Step,” a fellowship community office. Heroes” series. Gnezda was

Malick recognized for being quite the character Wendie Malick ’72 (center) was honored at the third annual Carney Awards on Oct. 29 in Santa Monica, California. Created to specifically honor character actors the Carney Awards are for the “memorable, illustrious, noteworthy and unforgettable” in character acting, who “are the mainstay and backbone of every film and television show.” Alumni enjoy Alaskan cruise Other familiar faces honored were (from left) Richard Kind of Mad About You and Alumni who met at OWU in 1968 recently Spin City, William H. Macy of Shameless Roommates reconnect over shared interests went on an Alaskan cruise. Pictured are (front Friends hold mini-reunion in Colorado Pictured (from left) are friends Dave Garbrick, Alice McAllister and Fargo, William Fichtner of Invasion and row, from left): Jon Schaffer ’72, Elaine Shaver Classmates who graduated together in 1975 gathered for Garbrick ’61, Peggy Wright DuPont ’61, and Dr. Bert DuPont ’61. Peggy Prison Break and Xander Berkeley of 24 and ’71, Laurel Bahner Chasan ’74, and Andy a brief reunion in Grand Lake, Colo., in late July. From and Alice were roommates at OWU and have stayed in touch through The Mentalist. Chasan ’72; (back row, from left): Marilyn left are Phyllis Gunn, Sarah Cowell Christiano, Robin the years. They discovered at their recent 55th class reunion that they Malick is best known for her work on the HBO sitcom Dream On and the NBC Waite Fernstrum ’72, David Fernstrum ’72, Wilson Baker, and Ricky Smullins Daly. sitcom Just Shoot Me! Currently, she is a voice actress for the Netflix cartoon share an interest in birdwatching and bird photography. In March, Lynda McClanahan, Joel Knepp ’72, Amy BoJack Horseman. She returned to campus in October as a special guest during the Garbricks visited the DuPonts at their homes in Houston and Platas, Gus Platas ’72, Jody Dodd Cottrill ’73, kickoff festivities for the Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign. Galveston, Texas. Recently, the DuPonts traveled to North Carolina to Chip Chatlain ’72, Claudia Markey, and join the Garbricks on a visit to Nashville and then to the Garbricks’ Steve Markey ’70. home in Davidson. Peggy and Alice had many happy OWU memories to talk about and also enjoyed discussing the OWU of today. Foursome wins tournament with Bishop pride Members of the class of 1980 gathered in their finest OWU colors to play a golf tournament in Bandon Dunes, Oregon in October. And they won! (Must have been the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS red and black.) Pictured (from left): Mike Schilling, David Beeghly, Peter Rubacky, and Neal Bozentka ’81 Chuck Nider ’07 Candace Griffith ’09 Keith Rozanski ’99 Russ Whiteman. Alumni Interfraternity Denise Sabo Brenner ’00 ouncil Representative Kevin Hinkle ’94 Lana Rucks ’95 Alumnae Panhellenic C Alumni “W” Association Council Representative Elizabeth Long Downey ’06 Representative Samuel Smith ’96 Sarah Bruno ’10 Vice President Anne Lynde ’78 Mary Beth Sommer ’88 Kristen Cemate ’06 Fred Evans ’68 Ann Muenster-Nuiry ’73 Sue Struna Subel ’69 Vicki DiLillo Erin Flynn Jonathan Noble ’06 Drew Thawley ’97 Faculty Representative Faculty Representative Bernie Vendlinski ’03 Bob Gordon ’88 Hillary Panas Pember ’85 Sheila Fagan Plecha ’84 President 2 38 | OWU Class Notes Class Notes WINTER 2018 | 39

recognized for her volunteer [Reunion note] Fred Hoopes America list for his work in Thomas Goodman ’76, Barbara Jackson-Hall ’77, Jill Sasso Curtis ’82 was named Patrick Murphy Jr. ’83 was work with the children’s ’73 announced his retirement labor and employment law president, CEO, and founder of have resided in Charlotte, N.C. 1980s dean of community engagement, featured on readingeagle.com art program at the Dowd from teaching English to English and litigation representing Goodman Media International, since 2001. David Hazard ’80 and Douglas education, and workforce in July for his work as an organ Educational Center in Columbus. Language Learners (ELL). He management. was interviewed by the public Hart ’80 participated in the development at Berkshire builder in West Pottsgrove The center is operated by the was chairman of the World relations website “Bulldog Michael Jordan ’76 will publish Pan-Mass Challenge, a Community College in Pittsfield, Township, Pa. Homeless Families Foundation Languages Department at James Breece III ’74 was Reporter” on June 19 about the his first book, The Company of nearly 200-mile bike ride in Mass. and is open to children in the Valley Forge Military Academy named deputy director of the business today and the time he Demons, a murder mystery set Massachusetts in August, raising Jill Myers ’88 was named foundation’s housing-first in Wayne, Pa., and taught ELL Heritage Museum of Asian Art flew through a hurricane at a in Cleveland, in January. He money for cancer research at the Byron Pitts ’82 joined the to the Martins Ferry (Ohio) program and children at risk there for 33 years. He is looking in Chicago’s Chinatown. The client’s request. was also included in Ohio Super Dana-Farber Cancer Institute National Advisory Board at Athletic Hall of Fame for her of homelessness on the city’s forward to his 45th class reunion museum has 7,000 feet of Lawyers and Best Lawyers in in Boston. Elon University’s School of accomplishments as a basketball west side. After the death of in May. galleries and an extensive Asian Michael Hall ’76 delivered America in several categories. Communications. player. her 29-year-old son in 2008, library of 20,000 volumes. He the opening-session keynote His peers designated him as Robert Hanna ’81 was selected Gnezda was inspired to get Jim Kizziar ’73 was selected travels frequently to Asia. address at the annual National Arbitrator of the Year in for inclusion in the Best Lawyers J.B. Raftus ’82 was interviewed involved the with center. Years by his national peers in 2016 Career Development Association Cleveland. in America list for 2018. by TheDrum.com in June about ago, when her son asked her for admission to the College Nick Calio ’75, CEO of the trade Global Conference on June 28 his position as chief marketing 1990s to make a charitable donation of Labor and Employment group Airlines for America, was in Orlando, Fla. His presentation Ted Daniels ’77 was named David Shier ’81 was appointed officer at GSD&M, an advertising Michele Mercer Lee ’90, of instead of giving him a Christmas Lawyers. The college recognizes interviewed by travelweekly. was titled “America’s ‘Queen of editor of the Ashland Times- associate dean of the agency headquartered in Austin, the San Francisco Bay Area, present, she made a donation to exceptional achievement com on Sept. 5 about issues Camelot’: Jacqueline Kennedy Gazette in Ashland, Ohio. Washington State University Texas. received her Ph.D. from the the center. Now, as a volunteer and service to the law. Kizziar in the industry today, including Onassis’ Integrated Life-Career Honors College in October. California Institute of Integral there, she encourages her was also recently selected by proposed airport fee increases Legacy.” After living in Columbus students to discuss their art as Thomson Reuters for inclusion and proposed privatization of the in the 1980s, and Pennsylvania a way to open up and discuss in the 2017 Best Lawyers in U.S. air traffic control system. in the ’90s, Hall and his wife, underlying emotions.

Run for your life (or for a week through the Alps) When Brent Norton ’93 and Tom Hoag ’93 started running after graduation to stay in shape, they weren’t expecting it to lead to running 164 miles over seven days through the Alps. Or, as Hoag describes it, “the highlight of the last 25 years.” Their plan to run the Gore-Tex Transalpine Run through Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland was hatched after Norton (pictured, right), who had been running Ironman races, followed Hoag’s blog about doing the TransRockies Run in Colorado. Hoag emailed Norton about the Transalpine Run, and Norton replied with two words: “I’m in.” The two friends met as freshmen when they joined Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), but hadn’t seen each other in 15 years. They trained on their own, Norton in Seattle and Hoag in Portland, Maine. Their first run together was on day one of the race on Sept. 3 in Fischen, Germany. Legge-Sloman wedding House of Black Culture revisited To prepare, Norton spent a year running through the Cascade Debra “Debbie” Legge ’77 married Brian Sloman on Oct. 29 at their home After their picture appeared in the Fall issue of OWU Magazine, Mountains to get used to the altitude – the Alps run featured 51,000 in King of Prussia, Pa. OWU classmates joining in the celebration were, several alumni recognized themselves in the archival photo feet of ascent and 47,100 feet of descent. from left: Ellen Simpson ’77, Cynthia “Cinch” Rugart ’77, Debbie Legge- of the House of Black Culture that ran with news that it will be The race has a high attrition rate, with about one-third of Sloman ’77, Meg Hagenbuch ’77, and Deborah McColloch ’77. rebuilt. Pictured (from left) are: John Cheek ’77, Jackie Wood ’75, participants dropping out. “People were just wrecked by the end Harlan Magruder ’78, and Stacey Payne ’78. and limping over the finish line,” Hoag recalls. “The ones who do well in this race are on the next level, running-wise. The Germans, “I didn’t think I was going to make it,” he admits. “It’s a major Austrians, and Swiss, I’ve never seen anybody as tough as those mental and physical setback, running without all that gear you’re people.” used to.” Hoag eventually got his bag on day five. Norton’s didn’t Both Norton and Hoag were struggling by day four, which show up until they were leaving, but it didn’t sour them on the feat. they’d been warned was the hardest. Every step of descent was “The biggest victory was crossing that line at the end and painful for Norton. Upon returning to the U.S., he learned that he’d knowing how much training went into this, and doing it with a great been running with a stress fracture. “I taped my leg up for the last friend,” Norton says. “We both started crying our eyes out. It was three days of running, but it was broken,” he says. absolutely overwhelming.” Aside from the obvious challenge of running a marathon a day Thompson Hall friends reunite They’re already planning their next race, either a Grand Canyon in high altitudes, the trip came with an additional challenge as run or the TransRockies together. They might go back to the Alps in OWU friends recently gathered in Burlington, Vt. Pictured soon as they landed in Germany: The airline lost their bags. 2019. “It was just so much fun, taking on a challenge like that with a (from left) are Karen Hershner Dedo ’78, Erica Robinson “We had one change of clothes and had to buy all new buddy,” Hoag says. “It’s liberating to be up there, running through the Mitchell ’78, Margo Smyth Biringer ’78, and Emily Thayer equipment,” Hoag says. “But the German people were super helpful. Alps.” Guziak ’78. The four were all freshmen together in They loaned us clothing and gave us rides to stores.” Read more about their adventures on Hoag’s Thompson Hall and have been getting together since 1978. blog: https://thoagtransalpinerun.wordpress.com/. 40 | OWU Class Notes Class Notes WINTER 2018 | 41

Studies in Organizational and Christine Wright ’95 was and married the love of her life, Barnesville, Ohio, for the 2017-18 and dedicated young executives, Ericka Greene ’04 and Jenny Kelly Heil ’05 was named varsity Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Transformative Studies in the fall named director of corporate Dragan. They have a four-year- school year. professionals, and leaders who Brodie ’04 rode in Pelotonia, an head women’s basketball coach Boston. of 2016. Lee focuses on human development at the global old son named Dean. While demonstrate career success and August bike ride in Columbus at Sylvania Southview High capital in the tech industry and public health organization NSF she won’t be able to attend her Jill Snider Payne ’00 was community engagement. that raises money for cancer School in Sylvania, Ohio. Stacey Venzel ’10 published the is also involved with adjunct International. reunion this spring, she hopes named Teacher of the Year at research, in honor of their book Today’s Dinosaurs: teaching for graduate students, that someday soon she’ll have Wyandot Run Elementary School Julie Freyermuth Steines ’01 mothers, who both lost their lives Mary Korth ’05 was named A Complete Guide to Turtles, exploring transdisciplinary Edward Dunakin ’98 was the chance to introduce her in Powell, Ohio. was interviewed by IdeaMensch. to cancer. choir director at Dowagiac Terrapins, and Tortoises in June. studies, creative inquiry, and elected secretary-treasurer husband and son to OWU. com on June 15. Steines is an Middle School and High School sociocultural changes. of the board of directors for Emily Hughes Smith ’00, owner award-winning children’s author, Jaishree Saxena ’04 was in Dowagiac, Mich., in June. Griffin Waterman ’10 joined EastView at Middlebury, a senior Kenneth Adair ’99 was named and operator of Naissance, a and she co-owns the publishing elected president of the the staff of Waterloo Elementary Tucker Franciscus ’91 was living community in Middlebury, visiting assistant professor of brand development and design and education company Polly Board of Trustees for Child George Hamaoui Jr. ’07 was in Wisconsin as a fourth-grade named chief financial officer of Vt., in June. chemistry and biochemistry at agency, was named to the “40 Parker Press with her mother. Care Connection, a nonprofit named assistant professor of teacher. He was previously ENSERVCO Corporation in July. the University of Mount Union in Under 40” list in the Michiana, organization that seeks to biology at the Massachusetts a special-education teacher [Reunion note] Joyce Gordon- Alliance, Ohio. Ind., area. The list is an annual Vincent McGinniss ’02 joined ensure the quality, availability, College of Liberal Arts. assistant in Oak Park, Ill. Christopher Recker ’92 Shapkaliska ’98 is working in collaborative effort among the the ENT Specialists of Northwest and affordability of child care was named Atlanta Home financial management at the South Bend Regional Chamber, Ohio. McGinniss is a board- in the Mercer County, N.J., Andrew White ’10 received his Building Division president with U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. 2000s the Young Professionals certified otolaryngologist and community. 2010s Ph.D. in kinesiology from the homebuilder Lennar Atlanta. Previously, she worked for Micah Brownstein ’00 was Network South Bend, the facial plastic surgeon. Trevor Hawley ’10 participated University of Minnesota on the Peace Corps in Guinea, named interim co-head of Olney Elkhart County Community Kaluhath De Abrew ’05 was in the Pan-Mass Challenge, a May 11. Tyler Baker ’95 is joining the Macedonia, Indonesia, Tunisia, Friends School, a ninth-through- Foundation, and other chambers Sara Kennedy ’03 was named a cast member in a summer nearly 200-mile bike ride in cast of NBC’s Days of Our Lives. and Washington, D.C. While 12th-grade college preparatory of commerce across the region. branch manager for the Orange production of Shakespeare’s Massachusetts in August, raising working in Macedonia, she met boarding and day school in The award recognizes talented Branch Library of the Delaware Measure for Measure at the money for cancer research at the County (Ohio) District Library. Theatre for a New Audience in New York.

Suarez- Miller-Butler wedding Collazo Jessica Miller ’11 married Thomas Butler on wedding July 8 in Dayton, Ohio. Alumni joining in the Kristen celebration were (from left): Xandria Titus Suarez ’12 ’14, Karin Mortensen Seymour ’81, Jacqueline (left) Roth ’13, Rob Pence ’10, Sarah Chizmar Pence married ’12, Ally Carlson ’11, Aryn Taylor ’11, Jessica Mariana Miller ’11, Jessica Kyler Brubaker ’10, Ross Collazo in Brubaker ’10, Kate Kriegel ’10, Kathryn Marysville, Seevers ’10, and Nick Goulette ’10. Ohio, on Aug. 12.

Alumnae lead summer camp in Haiti Several OWU alumnae worked together this summer at the Pwoje Espwa (Project Hope) orphanage in Les Cayes, Haiti. From left with children are Kelsey Ullom ’14, Emma Sparks Studying birds in Hawaii, swimming with dolphins on the weekends ’16, Rachel Vinciguerra ’14, Kate Raulin ’12, Brenda Gable ’15, Lizzy Wynne ’16, and Courtney Durham ’12. In May, the women gathered in Haiti for their annual Fi Ki Fo (“Strong Girl”) Shannon Schlater ’16 spent the early spring and summer in Hawaii, working with the United States Geological Survey in Hawaii Volcanoes summer camp with the preteen and teenage girls at Espwa. During the Strong Girl camp, the National Park on a project to help protect native birds from invasive, predatory black rats. Her project tested whether the removal of black rats women implemented self-designed curriculum and activities about self-esteem, goal setting, would increase the success rate of Hawaii Elepaio birds in successfully fledging young. While results are still unofficial, preliminary findings nonviolent communication, self-expression, skills training, and female empowerment. They indicate that rat removal made a significant difference. Since the are excited to continue this longtime connection between OWU and Espwa, which began project had many components, Schlater had the opportunity to learn with Doug Dittrick ’55, a friend of the founder of Espwa. and develop a variety of skills such as nest searching/monitoring, small-mammal trapping, radio telemetry, radio telemetry, and bird banding. “I absolutely loved Hawaii,” Schlater said. “The project was Composer wins award in Italy everything I could have asked for. I thoroughly enjoyed going to work every day, and the weekends were like mini vacations. I got Lauren Spavelko ’11 (left) won the Festival dei Due Mondi’s fifth annual Young Composers to swim with wild dolphins, turtles, and manta rays, lived within Competition dedicated to Gian Carlo Menotti in Spoleto, Italy. Spavelko was recognized for her walking distance of the active crater on Kilauea, and visited some work Baby Book, six songs on pregnancy, miscarriage, and motherhood, which offers women really beautiful places.” Schlater is now a master’s student at the support, empathy, and recognition — especially for those who have suffered miscarriages and University of Nebraska Kearney, where she is analyzing how the who often feel isolated and ashamed — and promotes an open dialogue about these issues. movements of red-tailed hawks, white-tailed deer, and bobcats are Baby Book was performed by Lucie Chartin and Luba Podgayskaya in Spoleto in August during affected by agriculture and fragmentation. the Incontri Musicali chamber music festival.

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Jordan Ahmed ’13 was selected Marriages Jane Moorhead Feller ’43, of was predeceased by his wife, a brother, Arthur Gerlach ’49, Marilyn Musselman Ledebuhr and is survived by a son, Robert Andrew Nicholson ’58, of as a Schonberg Fellow, part of Findlay, Ohio, June 14, at the Ruth Kendall Gardner ’47, and and is survived by her husband, ’51, of East Lansing, Mich., Murray ’82. He was a member Charlotte, N.C., June 14, at the a professional dance residency 2010s age of 96. She is survived by a a brother, David Gardner ’48. Donald Watkins ’49. She was a July 18, at the age of 88. She of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. age of 81. He is survived by his program in Boston. Ahmed is a Share your happy news with brother, Dallas Moorhead Jr. He is survived by a brother, member of Alpha Gamma Delta is survived by a sister, Betty wife, Karen Williams Nicholson dance and performance artist, your classmates! Send marriage ’49, and was a member of Alpha Robert Gardner ’51, and three sorority. Musselman Eiler ’56, and was Jerry Sheaffer ’55, of Findlay, ’59. writer, and educator. and birth announcements to Xi Delta sorority. children, Catherine Gardner a member of Alpha Chi Omega Ohio, Aug. 12, at the age of 87. [email protected] Layman ’70, Marjorie Gardner sorority. He is survived by his wife, Anne Greta Thomas Caldwell ’59, of Margaret Bagnell ’13 was Virginia Reid Anderson ’45, of Polk ’75, and Lynn Gardner Child Sheaffer ’52, two children, Columbus, June 18, at the age of named health-care delivery Kyle Drexler ’06 was married Washington Court House, Ohio, Rohr ’75. He was a member 1950s Elizabeth Hart Raup ’51, of Jeremy Sheaffer ’90 and Dan 79. She was predeceased by a manager at the Judge Group, a to Claire Blackburn on Dec. 10, June 4, at the age of 93. of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. William Chaney ’50, of Martins Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 1, at the Sheaffer ’81, and a grandchild, brother, David Thomas ’54, and global professional services firm. 2016, at St. Paul’s Church in He and his brother inherited a Ferry, Ohio, July 24, at the age age of 88. Elizabeth Sheaffer ’13. He was was a member of Delta Gamma She moved to Las Vegas, Nev., Nantucket, Mass. Corinne Reed Abatt ’46, of Troy, construction company from their of 89. He was a member of Phi a member of Phi Delta Theta sorority. to set up and lead its health-care Mich., June 22, at the age of 93. father that built or renovated Kappa Psi fraternity. Mary Rasmussen Wright ’51, of fraternity. Sheaffer was a retired division’s newest office. Claire Everhart ’10 and Sharif She was a member of Kappa six buildings for OWU, starting Amherst, Mass., Aug. 30, at the pediatric dentist, a Korean War Elizabeth Flowers Snodgrass Kronemer ’12 were married on Alpha Theta sorority. with the Pfeiffer Natatorium and L. Thomas Frederickson ’50, age of 88. She was a member of veteran, and a licensed private ’59, of Midland, Mich., Aug. Kathryn Jacob ’13 was named Aug. 13. ending with the renovation of of Savory, Ill., July 30, at the age Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. pilot. He served in the U.S. 14, at the age of 80. She was a pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Margaret Fletcher Davis ’46, of Selby Stadium. of 88. He was predeceased by Regular Army in Korea, where member of Alpha Chi Omega Church in Massillon, Ohio. Alamosa, Colo., Sept. 11, at the his mother, Ester Skoog Bussell H. Joan Cook ’52, of he was awarded a Bronze Star sorority. Births age of 93. She was a member of Elbridge Holland ’48, of 1919, and a brother, James Indianapolis, July 21, at the age for meritorious service. In 1963, Sarah Bechtel ’14 was named 2000s Chi Omega sorority. Newton, N.J., Sept. 5, at the Fredrickson ’52. He is survived of 87. She was a member of Sheaffer and his wife opened assistant men’s and women’s age of 93. He was predeceased by his wife, Betty Blessing Delta Delta Delta sorority. the American Speakers Bureau 1960s track and field coach at Brandon Bytnar ’05 and his Virginia Bagley Heischman by his wife, Bettilou Holland Fredrickson ’50, and was a in Findlay, which brought well- Plattsburgh State University in wife Sara celebrated the birth ’46, of Westerville, Ohio, Aug. ’47, and is survived by a son, member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Jane Sutton Hire ’52, of known conservative speakers to Harvey Ford III ’60, of New York. of their first child, Emily “Emmy” 14, at the age of 92. She was a Elbridge Holland Jr. ’71. fraternity. Gahanna, Ohio, Sept. 1, at the the city for seminars. Marshfield, Mass., Aug. 19, at the Rose Bytnar, on May 10. member of Delta Delta Delta age of 87. She was a member of age of 82. He was a member of Andrew Diehl ’14 was promoted sorority. Shirley Sayre Kane ’48, of Sally Carter Gould ’50, of Chi Omega sorority. Thomas Bonnell ’56, of Canton, Beta Theta Pi fraternity. to head track and field coach Amanda Brumenschenkel Williamsburg, Va., June 14, at the Salem, Mass., May 23, at the Ohio, July 15, at the age of 83. at Southwestern University in Cabana ’07 and her husband Jean Hiestand ’46, of age of 91. She was predeceased age of 89. She was a member of Peter Mason ’52, of Manchester, He is survived by his children Gaylord Mount Schelleng ’61, Georgetown, Texas, in August. Chris welcomed son Theodore Charleston, S.C., June 26, at the by her father, Judson Sayre Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Vt., June 18. He was a member of and by his grandson Jacob of Tinton Falls, N.J., June 17, Diehl was a decathlete member James Cabana on June 7. age of 95. He was predeceased 1920, and her husband, Harry Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Bonnell ’12. He was a member at the age of 78. She was a of OWU’s track and field team. by his mother, Helen O’Daffer Kane ’49. She was a member of Katharine Battelle McMillan ’50, of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. member of Delta Delta Delta Kelsey Lake Nylund ’08 and Hiestand 1915. He is survived Pi Beta Phi sorority. of Wilmington, Ohio, Aug. John Vossers Jr. ’52, of sorority. Christopher Litzler ’14 was her husband Kristian welcomed by his wife, Virginia Wightman 17, at the age of 89. She was Greensboro, N.C., June 27, at the Barbara Pritchard Merrill ’56, of featured in Crain’s Cleveland their second daughter, Stella Hiestand ’47, and a daughter, Marjorie Brown ’49, of Bedford, predeceased by her father, age of 89. He is survived by his Tucson, Ariz., June 27, at the age Carma Calhoun Hume ’61, of Business in June for his work as Eileen, on June 28. She joins big Barbara Hiestand Ledford ’86. Ohio, Aug. 20, at the age of 90. Donald Battelle 1919, and a wife, Elizabeth Terrill Vossers of 82. She was predeceased by London, Ohio, July 28, at the vice president of originations sister Adeline. The family lives in Jean was a member of Sigma She was predeceased by her sister, Louise Battelle Hazard ’54. He was a member of the her husband, John Merrill ’55, age of 77. She is survived by her at Pinnacle Financial Group in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Chi fraternity. husband, Robert Brown ’49, ’42. She is survived by a brother, OWU Athletic Hall of Fame and and was a member of Kappa husband, David Hume ’60, and Cleveland. and a brother, Richard Brown Richard Battelle ’49, and was a Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Alpha Theta sorority. three children, Ginger Kronk, William Yoder II ’09 and Colleen Marilyn Wheeler Boyce ’47, of ’48. She was a member of Kappa member of Kappa Kappa Gamma David S. Hume, and Steve Hume. Elise Pitcairn ’15 is a global Brieck Yoder ’10 welcomed son Scottsdale, Ariz., June 11, at the Kappa Gamma sorority. sorority. Carol Nincehelser Wirick ’52, Thomas Smith ’56, of Hume was a member of Kappa advocate for the San Francisco- William Robert Yoder III on June age of 91. She was predeceased of Sunbury, Ohio, Aug. 26, at Whitehouse, Ohio, June 27, Alpha Theta sorority. based nonprofit Mama Hope. 23. by a daughter, Jeanne Boyce Mary Belknap Hagemeister Joseph Pennell ’50, of the age of 87. She is survived at the age of 83. He was She is spending four months in Morrison ’78. She is survived ’49, of Arlington, Texas, Aug. Chesterfield, Va., July 7, at the by a sister, Rachel Nincehelser predeceased by his parents, Kathleen Sasso Betts ’62, of Kenya this winter to improve the In Memoriam by her husband, William Boyce 31, at the age of 90. She was age of 92. He was predeceased Stockwell ’51, and a daughter, Dudley Smith 1920 and Helen Falmouth, Mass., July 6, at the lives of widows and orphans in 1930s ’48, and was a member of Kappa predeceased by her husband, by his wife, Carol White Pennell Sally Wirick Beske ’80. Smith ’23. He was a member of age of 76. She was a member of the port city of Kisumu. Alpha Theta sorority. Hilbert Hagemeister ’48. She ’49, and was a member of Beta Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Delta Gamma sorority. Marcella Smucker Clark ’37, of was a member of Gamma Phi Sigma Tau fraternity. Frederick Gerhauser ’53, of Alyssa Clark ’17, a graduate Scottsdale, Ariz., Aug. 15, at the Joan “Jody” Christian Merkel Beta sorority. San Carlos, Calif., Aug. 15, at the Thomas Doty ’57, of Irmo, S.C., Anne Berkley Brenner ’62, of student in developmental age of 102. She was a member of ’47, of Denver, July 16, at the Robert Foltz ’51, of Huron, Ohio, age of 88. He was a member of Sept. 10, at the age of 81. He Thomasboro, Ill., July 7, at the psychology at Illinois State Alpha Xi Delta sorority. age of 92. She was a member of Phyllis George Martin ’49, of July 10, at the age of 92. He Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. was a member of Sigma Chi age of 77. She was a member of University, received the 2017 Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. McComb, Ohio, July 19, at the was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Berk Developmental Graduate 1940s age of 91. fraternity. Mary Hall Phipps ’54, of Teaching Fellowship. Helene Stoneburner Waukegan, Ill., Aug. 16, at the Cynthia Black Berchtold ’58, of Susan Twigg Szaniszlo ’62, Mary Newlon Ellsworth ’40, of Atzenhofer ’48, of Dickson, Robert May ’49, of Delaware, Marjorie Young Force ’51, of age of 84. She was a member of Middletown, Md., July 27, at the of Austin, Texas, June 6, at the Hayden Knisley ’17 worked Vale, Ore., Sept. 10, at the age of Tenn., May 18, at the age of 91. Ohio, Aug. 26, at the age of 95. Williamsburg, Va., July 22, at the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. age of 80. She was a member of age of 76. She is survived by as a Clinton County Fellow 99. She was a member of Delta She was a member of Alpha Chi He was predeceased by his age of 88. She was predeceased Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. her husband, Paul Szaniszlo in Wilmington, Ohio, over the Delta Delta sorority. Omega sorority. mother, Dorothy Welch May by her father, Harry Young 1921, Shirley Landis ’55, of Lancaster, ’61, and was a member of Delta summer as part of a program 1917, and a brother, James and a brother, William Young ’41. Ohio, July 8, at the age of 83. Marcia Lubbers Berry ’58, of Gamma sorority. intended to help young adults Jane Gatewood White ’40, of Marion Graham Brindle ’48, of Taylor ’49. He was a member of She is survived by a daughter, Kansas City, Mo., June 22, at the returning from college for Marion, Ohio, June 4, at the age Agawam, Mass., Aug. 23, at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Debra Force ’75, and was a James Murray ’55, of Frankfurt, age of 80. She is survived by her Nancy Miller Vogt ’62 of summer vacation contribute to of 99. She was a member of age of 91. member of Delta Delta Delta Mich., Sept. 10, at the age of husband of 57 years, the Rev. Chiangmai, Thailand, Sept. 4, the city, develop professional Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Dorothy Gerlach Watkins ’49, sorority. 86. He was predeceased by his Dr. Keith T. Berry, and their three 2016, at the age of 75. She is skills, and make community went on to earn her Ph.D at Ohio John Gardner ’48, of Columbus, of Columbus, June 29, at the age wife, Mary Booth Murray ’53, children. survived by two brothers, connections. State University. Aug. 23, at the age of 92. He of 89. She was predeceased by 44 | OWU Class Notes WINTER 2018 | 45

Roy Miller ’55 and David Miller is survived by his wife, Sheila Faculty/Staff (see Page 17 for more). He retired BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ’57. She was a member of Chi Dunn ’75. in 1993 but continued teaching OFFICERS OF THE BOARD Omega sorority. Dina Bangdel, of Richmond, Va., select courses until 1997. Thomas R. Tritton ’69 | Chairperson Richard Howell ’72, of Saddle July 25, at the age of 52. Bangdel Donald Casperson ’63, of River, N.J., June 27, at the age was a former art history professor John Milligan ’83 | Vice Chairperson Bellingham, Wash., June 23, at of 67. He was a member of Tau at OWU. the age of 77. He was a member Kappa Epsilon fraternity. TRUSTEES AT LARGE Phillips Burnside, of Delaware, of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Richard Alexander ’82 David Quinn ’74, of Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 18, at the age of 90. Nicholas Calio ’75 Martha C. Peed ’64, of Tucson, Aug. 22, at the age of 65. He He is survived by four children, Ariz., Aug. 20, at the age of 75. was a member of Phi Delta Theta Thomas Burnside ’81, Paul Doreen DeLaney Crawley ’91 She is survived by her twin sister, fraternity. Burnside ’85, Kendra Fraser Daniel Glaser ’82 Marian Peed Weisz ’63. She Burnside ’94, and John Aaron Granger ’93 Burnside ’91. He was a was predeceased by her father, Jeffrey Sullivan ’75, of West Edward Haddock ’69 Paul Peed ’30. Peed was a Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 12, at the professor and later emeritus Randall Waldron Carol Hilkirk Latham ’61 Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil age of 64. He is survived by a professor of physics from 1994 from 1964 to 1966 and a teacher brother, Peter Sullivan ’72. He until his passing. Friends Jack Luikart ’71 of English literature at Beaty was a member of Sigma Alpha Dale Dykema, of Newport Beach, Todd Luttinger P ’10 Kenneth Denny Sr., of Marion, Junior High School in Warren, Epsilon fraternity. Calif., July 4, at the age of 87. He Kevin McGinty ’70 Ohio, July 17, at the age of 69. He Pa., and Frankfurt American High was predeceased by his wife, Colleen Nissl ’72 School in Frankfurt, Germany. Kim McKinney Engelsman ’77, was a former custodian at OWU. Suzanne Williams Dykema ’67, C. Paul Palmer IV ’96 of Falls Township, Pa., July 26, at and was a member of the OWU Richard Gay, of Anchorage, Thomas Palmer ’69 Barbara Mahood Olson ’65, of the age of 62. She is survived by Tower Society. Rapid City, S.D., June 21, at the her husband, Marc Engelsman Alaska, Aug. 13, at the age of 97. Anand Philip ’00 age of 73. She was predeceased ’78, and was a member of He was a former professor of Sympathy to Frank Quinn ’78 religion at OWU. by a brother, David Mahood ’74, Gamma Phi Beta sorority. George Romine Jr. ’67 and was a member of Alpha Chi Gay Martin Hendricks ’59 for Tom Simons ’88 Omega sorority. Eleanor Kroninger, of Delaware, the death of her husband, John 1980s Ohio, Sept. 6, at the age of 81. Hendricks, on Aug. 9. Katherine Boles Smith ’71 William Gwynne ’66, of Timothy Tyler ’81, of She was a secretary at OWU Kara Trott ’83 Portland, Maine, Aug. 2, at the Philadelphia, June 19, at the from 1974 to 1998. Sherrie Bevan Burlingham ’72 for the death of her mother, age of 73. He was an OWU age of 59. He was a member of TRUSTEES FROM Bettie Schwope, of Columbus, Margaret “Peggie” Otto Bevan, LIFE TRUSTEES GRADUATING CLASS TRUSTEES theatre professor for many years Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION and a member of Sigma Phi July 30. on June 11. William Blaine Jr. HON ’89 Daud Baz ’17 Jan Baran ’70 Epsilon fraternity. Patricia McCollum Higgins Jean Fitzwater Bussell ’69 Emma Drongowski ’16 ’83, of Pinehurst, N.C., June Louis Szalontai, of Strongsville, Paul Myers ’74 and Marion Rick Doody ’80 George H. Conrades ’61 Ibrahim Saeed ’15 Cannon Myers ’77 for the Susan Bushnell Hinde ’67, of 29, at the age of 56. She was Ohio, Aug. 9, at the age of 78. He Jason Downey ’02 Patricia Belt Conrades ’63 a member of Delta Delta Delta worked at OWU from 1986 death of Marion’s mother, Claire Spring, Texas, June 16, at the Peter Eastwood ’91 Evan Corns ’59 EAST OHIO CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST age of 72. She is survived by a sorority. to 1995. Cannon, on June 26. Sally Christiansen Harris ’76 Douglas H. Dittrick ’55 sister, Sarah Bushnell Tate ’70, CHURCH TRUSTEE Martha Nunn Lewis ’83 and was a member of Kappa James Stevens ’87, of Columbus, Elizabeth Ann Ward, of Delaware, Susan Petrick Nelson ’76, John Andres Duarte ’65 Robert Hickson ’78 Alpha Theta sorority. June 18, at the age of 53. He was Ohio, May 12, at the age of 73. Petrick ’78, and Elizabeth Craig Luke ’85 William E. Farragher ’49 Petrick ’81 for the death of their a member of Alpha Tau Omega She worked at OWU from 1989 Vikram Malhotra ’87 Lloyd Ferguson ’62 OTHER CONFERENCES OF THE UNITED METHODIST fraternity. to 2007. mother, Gloria Caruso, on Michael McCluggage ’69 1970s June 18. Robert W. Gillespie ’66 CHURCH TRUSTEE Cynthia Carran O’Neill ’81 Michael Holmes ’70, of Dorothy Arlene Wonsmos, Maribeth Amrhein Graham ’55 Myron F. McCoy ’77 Ken Sternad ’77 Lakeside Marblehead and 1990s former employee in the OWU Lynne Marple Cannon ’77 Michael Long ’66 McCormick, S.C., June 20, at the Ruth Schirtzinger ’90, of Library’s reference and circulation for the death of her husband, Tracie Winbigler ’87 Jack McKinnie ’54 EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Richard Basko, on June 27. age of 68. He is survived by a Columbus, June 6, at the age departments, Aug. 13, at the age Phillip J. Meek ’59 Rock Jones of 73. of 91. brother, John Holmes ’68, and Carleton P. Palmer III ’64 Bishop Tracy Malone two children, Trevor Holmes Joan Fuhrer Baxter ’79 for the ’98 and Abigail Holmes ’00. He Randall Waldron, emeritus death of her mother, Margaret Kathleen Law Rhinesmith ’64 Bishop Gregory Vaughn Palmer was a member of Delta Tau Delta 2000s professor of English, June 19. Fuhrer, on May 5. Helen Crider Smith ’56 fraternity. Vera Pereskokova ’06, of South Waldron joined Ohio Wesleyan James D. Timmons Sr. ’61, P ’92 Euclid, Ohio, July 8, at the age of in 1968 and served as the David Dickey ’90 for the death Max Dunn ’71, of Salem, Va., 33. She was a member of Delta University’s first Benjamin T. of his wife, Ann Forrest Dickey, Aug. 18, at the age of 68. He Delta Delta sorority. Spencer Professor of Literature on Sept. 13, at the age of 47.

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hy, in an age of fake news and instant analysis, should presidential nomination. W we care about the past? Now, why does this history matter? Because it reminds us of Most of the time, in fact, we do not. Most of the time, we a very simple but very important point: Statues do not merely investing in our prefer to bask in the warm glow of historical amnesia. But then commemorate history. They reflect a particular period of time, an event like Charlottesville takes place, when the worst demons and they represent a political point of view. Contrary to what of our nature and history re-emerge, and force us to confront the some wrongly claim, statues are not some timeless, universal students tragedies of the past. celebration of heritage. Now is not the time to debate the merits of Why else does history matter? Well, as Gen. Robert E. Lee. But it is time to note, for “Today more the famous scholar Arthur Schlesinger Jr. the record, that the commission of the statue than ever, history notes, “it’s really hard to know where you’re honoring him in Charlottesville, Virginia, came two matters because going if you don’t know where you are or where years after the release of one of the most famous you’ve been.“ and dangerous films in American history. basic freedoms History is also an essential tool in the ongoing Birth of a Nation (1915) celebrated the lost are under assault fight against political totalitarianism. As the cause of the Confederacy and praised the around the world Czech author Milan Kundera noted during the heroism of the Ku Klux Klan. Lee, incidentally, Cold War, “The struggle of man against power is investing in our never denounced the KKK during his lifetime. and here in the the struggle of memory against forgetting.” President Woodrow Wilson, a fellow Virginian, United States.” History is an essential tool whether the threat campus heralded the film, endorsed it as “history written to our basic freedoms comes from the communist by lightning,” and screened it in the White House. left or the fascist right. Today more than ever, Not coincidentally, the Second or “New Klan” was enjoying a history matters because basic freedoms are under assault revival of popularity at the time. around the world and here in the United States. We cannot and By 1924, one in five native-born white men in the United should never take them for granted. The most important lesson States belonged to the KKK. That same year, the Klan was such that history teaches us is that our rights, our liberties, ultimately a powerful part of the Democratic Party that it was able to depend on our constant vigilance. deny New York Gov. Al Smith, a Roman Catholic, the

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