Table of Contents Reflections by Florabelle (Williams) Wilson ’49 . . Page 4 CampusNews...... Page 6 From the President’s Desk ...... Page 9 “Questions Past, Questions Future” ....Page 10 by Robert McBride ’48 AlumniDay1976...... Page 15 MaryStreets...... Page 18 Deaths ...... Page 19 Indiana Central and the American Revolution Bicentennial by Dwight L. Smith ’40 Page 20 ICU Alumni Personals ...... Page 22 Recent ICU Alumni Births ...... Page 27 Recent ICU Alumni Marriages .....Page 29 Vote For All-Time Greyhound Gridiron Squad ...... Page 30

I I On the cover: Work continues on the Krannert Memorial Library scheduled for completion in the summer of 1977.

2 SUMMER 1976 Alumni News Vol. 27 No. 4

Terry A. Taylor '73, Editor

ALUMNI BOARD OFFICERS 'resident 'Mary Kav Anthony '65, Greenwood

rice President 'Effie B. Brown '54, indianapolis

mretary-Treasuror 'Donna S. Mullen '70, Indianapolis

'as1 Prmsident Lloyd E. Hiatt '40, indianapolis

ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS ten ending 1977': William Kiesel '63, Indianapolis Mary W. Merryman '30, Indianapolis Donna 5. Mullen '70, Indianapolis William Rider '47, Lombard. I1 Henry Taylor '59, lndionopolis

ten ending 1978: 'Larry J. Barrett '67, Indianapolis Ann C. Breh '48, Chicago, I1 Merrill D. Hoban '47, Kokamo Karen C. Koenlg '73, indianapolis James C. Shaw '64, Indianapolis

tern ending 1979: Coral M. Gorsman '60, Greenwood Robert Hannl '50, Monticello Cheryl C. Larron '71, Indianapolis Cleo F. Moore '64, Indianapolis Maurice W. Nickels '69, Indianapolis

'erm ending 1980: 'Larry Axel '68, Lafayette Louise D. Bailey '50: Indianapolis Calvin Brandentyo 61, Columbus Robert Jewel1 56: Indianapolis Richard Sanderrs 65, Bargersville

ALUMNI BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS

la 19778 Clayton Kinkade '50, lndlanapolir la 1977, Geraldine McBride '57, lndionapolls lo1978: Gene Laurch '60. Indianapolis lo 1979: Sherman Cravens '42, Evanstan. I1 lo 1979: William Kiesel '63, Indianapolis 'Executive Committee Dr. He.nry Matinez '51 and Eloise (Hardison) Banks '47 (both above) received Distinguished Alumni Awards at Alumni Day on May 15. Also receiving lamer 1. Brunnemer '66 the award was Seaborn W. Hillis '57. For a related story on Alumni Day Director of Alumni Relations 1976, turn to page 15. lerry A. Tavlor '73 4ssistant Director of Publications Photography: Indiana Central News Bureau

Member, Council for Advoncement and Support ol Education

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3 Reflections Books to Bulldozers by Florabelle Williams Wilson ’49

“Unforgettable, wasn’t it?” “Bet you’ll never forget this day!” “How’d you like driving that big bulldozer?” “That’s an experience that you’ll never forget!”

Echoes of remarks like these whirled about my mind today as I placed my fancy red and grey hard hat carefully on the file cabinet and hurried to clean the freshly turned earth from my shoes. I had just returned to the library office following the ground-breaking ceremony for the KRANNERT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, March 23, 1976, and my mind was awash with memories of sitting behind the controls of a huge, yellow bulldozer (No. 103 ) , feeling the behemoth respond to my lightest touch. They were right, of course, it was an experience that I’ll never forget, but it was just one link in the chain of many unforgettable experiences and memories which I have shared at Indiana Central. I have prog- ressed from books to bulldozers.

I stepped off the city bus at the corner of Hanna and Otterbein on a cold, January day in 1946, and saw Indiana Central for the first time. I approached the white pillars of Academic Hall, nor knowing how much my life would be changed by entering the tall wooden doors which led to the lobby and the information window, A friendly smile, an interview and within a few days I transferred from the downtown campus of Indiana Unversity to Indiana Central College. At last I was enrolled in a real college, one that looked like a college, with dormitories and a gym and a library.

Most of the commuting students rode the city bus which we boarded on Monument Circle for the meandering ride past Manual High School, past Sacred Heart, through narrow tree-lined streets to the portion of the city known as University Heights. Troy Avenue was the ‘dividing line’ between city and country to my eyes, for Shelby Street was bordered with farms and open fields with only a few neat white frame houses in sight from the windows of the bus. Roehl’s Drugstore, which was located on the southeast corner of Hanna and Shelby, marked the northern edge of University Heights and served as the gathering place for those of us who walked down for an ice cream cone or a soda while waiting for the bus to ‘round Lawrence Avenue and begin its sputtering trek back to town. The student body was small and soon we came to know each other well. What a joyful celebration we shared when we learned that Indiana Central had been accredited by North Central Association of Colleges and Secon- dary Schools in 1947.

I formed lasting friendships with many of the persons I met at Indiana Central and shared several escapades with them. I still remember with glee the morning members of the Religious Life Committee, fired by their zeal to gather for Early Morning Prayer, removed the pins from the hinges of the locked Chapel Doors on the second floor of Academic Hall so that those of us gathered there could enter. (The pins were replaced, I think). As commuters participating in campus activities, my Little Sster, Mary Merritt, and I shared another memorable

(continued on page 17) 4 The following alumni no longer have a current address on Office, Indiana Central University, 1400 E. Hanna Avenue, fie with the ICU Alumni Office. If you know the correct Indianapolis, IN 46227. Thank you. address for anyone listed below please send it to: Alumni

Richard C. Allen ‘72 Charlotte Moms Ford ‘71 Verne A. Overton, Jr. William G. Alleyn ‘64 Wayne P. Girdley ‘62 Gary L. Palmer ‘65 Myra Anderson ‘39 Helen Bean Goodall‘37 Kurt M. Peters ‘66 James S. Ashcraft ‘62 Don T. Hancock ‘32 Karl M. Pipes ‘38 Verna Hardeman Banks ‘50 Yvonne L. Hanson ‘71 Nancy Price ‘72 Edward D. Barrow ‘34 Bertha Smith Harpe ‘56 Berdine Rudicel Proctor ‘53 Paul P. Bateman ‘52 Harry J. Harrison ‘51 T. James Ramsey ‘65 Marylin Hicks Benefiel‘61 Drusilla Burkhead Hartman ‘36 Mary Rose Randall ‘30 Kathryn Brown Bevens ‘32 Mickey R. Hartsock ‘64 John A. Rawlings ‘50 Robert A. Blacketer ‘71 Roseva Hughes Henderson ‘68 Evelyn Killion Reed ‘30 Dorothy B. Bonewitz ‘39 Michael Hines ‘70 Lenora Ruch Roberts ‘48 Robert H. Bonewitz ‘49 Dorothy Jensen Holdren ‘67 David L. Roessler ‘60 David A. Brittenham ‘61 Suzanne 0. Hollingsworth ‘65 John A. Rogers ‘52 Betty J. Broadus ‘66 Walter H. Hollingsworth ‘69 Shirley A. Roscoe ‘75 Stephen F. Brown ‘74 Howard T. Horn ‘27 Debra A. Rugh 73 Evelyn P. Bryant ‘66 Ruth Carson Huffman ‘66 Frances Russell ‘72 Charles R. Bugbee ‘52 Bettijo Johnson ‘67 Ronald L. Scott ‘64 Phyllis Weaver Burch ‘40 Joyce M. Johnson ‘70 Clifford J. Seyfried ‘74 Betty Burton ‘68 Sara Johnson Jones ‘38 Marilyn Broglin Shull‘67 Elizabeth Scherer Calhoon ‘35 Mary F. Julian ‘37 Zora Lee Simmons ‘44 Paul F. Campbell ‘33 Han Mu Kang ‘62 Daisy M. Smith ‘29 Douglass S. Carl ‘69 Robert G. Kelsay ‘52 Harry E. Smith ‘52 Woodie A. Carpenter ‘62 Ruth A. Keno ‘57 Nancy Kaye Smith ‘75 F. Richard Carter ‘58 Susan Berterman Kett ‘69 James M. Snead ‘54 Dellis 0. Chiddister ‘32 Perry W. Kincaid ‘72 Gary M. Stainbrook ‘71 Vernon W. Christianson ‘37 Charlotte Koning ‘57 Jay Ann Carson Stuckey ‘73 Jerome Clark ‘66 Raymond I. Kposowa ‘74 G. Eugene Talbott ‘45 Mayree Nash Clark ‘66 Kenneth Kraft ‘43 Ruth Bell Talbott ‘45 Hester Hogatt Collins ‘35 Sandra Stiles Lagoni 73 Betty Ann Thomburg ‘49 Nancy D. Copp ‘66 Herman F. Lane ‘30 Donald Tolin ‘66 Robert J. Curtis ‘61 Stephanie J. fiddle 74 Charles W. Townsend ‘62 Doris Birch Dailey ‘61 Donald R. Lindsey ‘69 Dennis P. Ukele ‘69 Linda Davidson 71 Helen Solomon Lindsey ‘39 Grace Maze Vaughn ‘52 James F. Davis ‘62 Lorraine R. Litterski ‘75 Florence VanEtten Warren ‘24 Larry E. Day ‘68 Margaret Madigan Long ‘49 Julie Zerkel Werbe ‘72 Rebecca Young Day ‘64 Verna MacCornack ‘69 Paul E. Whitsett ‘58 Robert D. Dellinger ‘65 Leigh F. Major ‘67 Margie Oldham Williams ‘74 Arthur Detherage, Jr. ‘59 Bernice Meyer ‘36 Mildred Williams ‘36 Thelma Woodburn Devine ‘24 Marilyn L. Miller ‘60 James F. Winton ‘60 June Bateman Eaton ‘37 Moms B. Moore ‘61 Willard Wirtz ‘67 Ralph W. Eaton ‘38 Rebecca Moms ‘67 Entil D. Witsman ‘50 Shirley M. Eckroth ‘60 Carol Richards Olszewski ‘69 John W. Woodard ‘70 Cliftinia Ewing ‘57 Freda Umbreit Oltman ‘57 Clark A. Wright ‘65 Robert Farmar ‘61 Julia G. Oribello ‘68 Lula Zimmerman ‘45 Onofre G. Fonceca ‘63

5 Former ICU Dean Speaks 396 Get Degrees at Commencement

Dr. Robert E. McBride, vice-president of academic Right Reverend Emerson Paul Haynes, Second Episcopal affairs at Albright College, was the 1976 commencement Bishop of southwest Florida; Dale E. Robinson, superin- speaker for Indiana Central University. He told 396 grad- tendent of the McCurdy Schools in New Mexico, and uates, “The one commodity your generation will be in Robert E. McBride. most desperate need of, is not more gas, more electricity, Bishop Haynes, a graduate of Indiana Central, was more copper, more platinum, but simply virtue-and the speaker for the Baccalaureate service held earlier in virtue is not something which your degree automatically the day. carries with it.” He continued by saying, “Virtue is something partially Dr. McBride, also an Indiana Central graduate and caught, partially taught, but in the final analysis, self- former dean of men and director of the graduate school developed.” at Indiana Central from 1956-65, continued his commence- Receiving honorary degrees were Robert Baxter, as- ment address by saying, “We may not need higher stan- sistant to the vice-president at IUPUI; Thomas Binford, dards of living, but we may need higher standards of chairman of the board of Indiana National Bank; The loving and sensitivity.”

14s enrollment reaches high Firs $6 Million Budget Seen for 76Z7 Dr. Gene E. Sease, president of Indiana Central Uni- -Developing the Volunteer Supervision and Fire versity, announced on May 14 that the budget next year Service Education programs for implementation (1976-77) will exceed six million dollars. The announce- in January, 1977. ment, which was made at the annual Board of Trustees It was also announced that professor Paul W. Piele- meeting, represents the largest budget in the history of meier, who joined the faculty in 1947, and most recently the institution. has been the Director of Testing, will be retiring. It was also reported to the Board that for the 25th year Indiana Central had balanced its budget. Other signifi- cant developments this past year that were reported in- cluded : 1976-77 Theatre Season -Fall enrollments ( 1975-76) reaching an all-time high of 2,877 students. This represents a 12.5 per- Announced by Director cent increase over Fall, 1974. And this was the largest gain of any of the 32 independent schools Four plays will highlight the theatre Season at Indiana in Indiana. Central University according to ICUs director of theatre, -The addition of the Master of Business Administra- Richard Williams. tion degree. The season will begin October 1 with ”The Glass -New records set in alumni support. The annual Menagerie” which also will have play dates October 7, 8, Alumni/Student Telethon raised a total of $18,000 and 9 in Ransburg Auditorium. Written by Tennessee ($5,000 more than the previous year). Over 32 Williams, the classic will be Indiana Central’s entry into percent of the ICU Alumni (2,220) contributed the American College Theatre Festival. to Indiana Central as opposed to the national aver- Archibald MacLeishs Pulitzer Prize winning “J.B.” age of 17 percent. will be the second production scheduled for November 18, -The Krannert Memorial Library was begun with 19, and 20. completion set for Summer, 1977. This $4 million plus structure will be the largest building on the An all-time favorite musical ‘Brigadoon” will be campus. staged February 17, 18, and 19; and the modern farce, -The Indianapolis Opera Company began on the “See How They Run” will be the dinner-theatre production ICU campus. March 24, 25, and 26 in the Schwitzer Center Dining Hall. 6 27 Added to E.S.A. At Spring Dinner This year's Epsilon Sigma Alpha banquet to honor initiates on May 14 to the Indiana Central honorary frater- nity, featured as its speaker alumnus Robert E. McBride, vice-president for academic affairs at Albright College. At the banquet, Carole Jaggers '74, ICUs director of career counseling and placement, and Joy Caskey '73, an ICU librarian, were installed as president and secretary-treasurer of the group. Among those initiated at the meeting were:

Stephen Arthur Pat Polis Vicky Bailey Jeretta Reynolds Luella Brunnemer David Sanderson Faculty member Jim Riggs, weekend broadcaster for local radio station WNTS was recently elected vice pres- Charles Crawford Adaline Scheme1 ident of the Indianapolis School Board. Jane Cumberworth Sally Shockey Judy Elliotr Mary Ann Skaggs Barbara Fengya Tena Sneed GiIroy to be Acting Linda Hathaway Sharon Snyder Brenda Kingen Shirley Thomas Assistant to President Linda Marker Duane Topp Dr. Gene E. Sease, president at Indiana Central Christy Newhouse Deborah Westerfield David Newhouse Robert Wingerter Eric Olson Lyn Wyand Judy Onken

I Mrs. Gilroy who came to Indiana Central this year, Dave Wood Honored by NCAA Indiana Central University standout Dave Wood of Indianapolis received honorable mention on the 1975-76 NCAA College Division Academic All-American basket- ball team released on May 4, 1976. Wood, a three-year starter for the Greyhound foot- MuIIen Named to Post ball, baseball, and basketball squads, compiled a 9.1 (B) accumulative average on a 12-point scale as a business John Mullen '48 has been named Assistant Director of the Center for Continuing Education and Management education major at Central. His future plans include teach- Development. He will begin his new duties June 1. ing and coaching at the secondary level. Mullen formerly was associated with Dow Chemical The 6-2, 190-pound senior earned twelve varsity let- Co., having been with them since 1953. ters during his four-year athletic career at ICU, a total He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Indi- ana Central and the Master of Science degree from Butler surpassed only by former Greyhound performer Dick University. Nyers, who merited 14 letters for his participation in four He has taught part-time at Indiana Central in the sports from 1953-56. Wood was a three-year all-Indiana Evening Division and the Center for Continuing Educa- Collegiate Conference selection at cornerback in football. I tion and Management Development. He also served on the Board of Trustees at Indiana Central (1971-75). Co-Marion County Athlete-of-the-Year while in high He and his wife Evalyn are the parents of five chil- school at Indianapolis Pike, Wood played both guard and dren and are members of the University Heights United forward for coach Angus Nicoson on the hardwood at Methodist Church. ICU and roamed the outfield for Bill Bright's baseballers. 7 Alumni Class Gifts Ranked

In the spring, 1976, Alumni Annual Fund Report, the 41 1937 31 32.29 1,004.50 32.40 alumni provided a ranking of alumni classes according to 42 1958 29 29.90 1,05 5.62 36.40 the number of donors from each. Because several alumni 43 1939 26 37.68 827.50 31.83 44 1962 52 27.81 1,062.08 20.42 have asked questions about the percentage of donors from 45 1964 51 31.29 1,032.58 20.25 the classes, about the amount given from each class, and 46 1955 22 38.60 590.00 26.82 the average size of each gift, The Alumni News is providing 47 1952 25 35.71 710.00 28.40 e list below of alumni classes ranked according to an aver- 48 1944 15 41.67 447.50 29.83 aging of all four factors. 49 1975 66 17.01 1,007.00 15.26 50 1938 17 23.29 815.00 47.94 Rai~k Class Donors Pct. Gift Ave. Gift 51 1945 8 32.00 208.50 26.06 1 1928 48 60.76 $3,069.50 $ 63.95 2 1929 33 53.23 2,309.40 69.98 3 GOLD 34 43.04 2,9 18.50 85.84 4 1950 40 38.10 3,560.51 89.01 5 1946 19 61.29 2,566.50 135.08 6 1930 29 38.16 1,87 5.00 64.66 7 1949 28 36.84 2,067.5 0 73.84 New Assistant Dean Named 8 1933 31 37.80 1,591.50 51.34 9 1963 54 32.73 2,244.02 41.56 Deborah Hunter of Bergenfield, New Jersey, has been 10 1947 28 59.57 1,271.50 45.41 named assistant dean of students at Indiana Central Uni- 11 1970 60 21.51 2,7 39.00 45.65 versity. 12 1968 69 29.49 2,299.50 33.33 Hunter earned her Master of Science degree from Indi- 13 1942 31 50.00 1,202.73 38.80 ana University this last May and her Bachelor of Arts de- 14 1953 30 45.45 1,299.96 43.33 gree from Muhlenberg College in political science in 1974. 15 1957 32 46.38 1,235.00 38.59 This past year she was an intern at Manchester College. 16 1960 43 38.05 1,422.50 33.08 17 1948 16 34.78 2,085.00 130.31 She is a member of the National Association for 18 1926 24 48.98 1,085.50 45.2 3 Women Deans, Administrators, and Counselors; the Amer- 19 1936 38 36.54 1,2 32.00 32.42 ican Personnel and Guidance Association; the American 20 1961 52 33.77 1,47 1.58 28.30 College Personnel Association; and the Indiana College 21 1932 25 33.33 1,272.50 50.90 Personnel Association. 22 1965 69 30.67 1,622.54 23.52 23 1966 63 28.38 1,850.25 29.37 Deborah Hunter 24 1972 83 22.87 1,866.12 22.48 25 1974 82 20.25 2,045 34 24.94 26 1959 39 35.45 1,2 20.00 31.28 27 1969 75 28.96 1,606.00 21.41 28 1927 21 46.67 914.50 43.55 29 1954 21 33.33 1,100.00 52.38 30 1971 72 26.18 1,5 5 5.62 21.61 31 1941 15 41.67 820.50 54.70 32 1956 31 41.33 928.08 29.94 33 1967 68 31.34 1,293.50 19.02 34 1934 28 36.36 1,010.00 36.07 35 1973 83 22.80 1,428.21 17.21 36 1940 18 60.00 666.04 37.00 37 195 1 21 32.31 1,050.00 50.00 38 193 1 21 36.2 1 941.OO 44.81 39 1935 22 24.18 1,127.00 51.23 40 1943 23 47.92 700.00 30.43 From the President’s Desk A New Way To Greet You

We are happy to greet you this issue by means of of students, we hope to maintain this same contact with the enclosed recording. We hope you will enjoy its our graduates. message and accept it as our warm personal greeting to At a time of increased technology, mechanization, and you. many impersonal contacts, Indiana Central must constantly The recording which accompanies this issue of the emphasize its individual and intense concern for persons. Alz/nz?zi News is but further attempt to underscore the We hope that you recall with satisfaction the many happy personal concern which marks our entire program at Indi- associations and lasting friendships you formed during ana Central. We believe that it is of crucial importance issue is another symbol of the importance we attach to that personal contact be made and maintained regularly your years at Indiana Central. Our message to you this with students, faculty, and staff. Following the graduation the warm and personal touch. Quest ions Past

The 1976 ICU Address as

I cannot but marvel every time I come back to the campus and look at the tremendous progress and develop- ment that has taken place on the campus in these post- war years under the dynamic leadership first of Dr. Esch and now Dr. Sease. When I came to Indiana Central as a freshman 34 years ago, the campus consisted of the old administration building that sheltered collectively the so- cial, intellectual, cultural and maintenance activities, three dormitories and one oversized barn that passed as a gym- nasium. The transportation system consisted of one aging station wagon by which our communications with the outside world were sustained, and one embattled Dodge truck that looked like the mechanical counterpart of the one-horse shay. Before these days of sophisticated admin- istrative staffs, Dr. I. J. Good served as a one man Director of Survival, serving not only as President, but Chief Devel- opment Officer, Supervisor of Recruiting, and Alumni Relations. Most planning sessions based upon an assessment of the college’s resources, ended up with a vigorous prayer meeting seeking divine resources as a substitute for funds and a request for a new supply of binder twine and Elmer’s glue to hold what we had together. I don’t want to give the impression that we were completely destitute in those days. Money somehow didn’t seem to be that important, and if the best things in life weren’t free, we could get most of the essentials at Roehl’s Pharmacy for a quarter or at least for 98 cents on the installment plan. I came to the campus with the sum of fifty dollars to cover my first year’s expenses, and when I met the young lady who was to be my wife and found that she had come only with her bus fare, I felt like a plutocrat. The only people who seemed to worry about money in those days were the business manager and the president and after Dr. Kek informed me that my fifty dollars might not cover all my expenses, I was assigned to the kitchen as pot and pan boy on a 35 hour per week schedule and to my surprise found that my future wife had also been assigned to the same general area as chief potato peeler. Cream will rise to the top, however, and in

10 questions Future

Commencement delivered May 16

Robert McSride ‘48 time I rose to the position of Caretaker of the Storeroom, a position not only with compensation at the rate of 25 cents per hour, but with fringe benefics-chiefly any portion of a pie or cake that happened to have survived the holocaust of hungry mouths that invaded Dailey Hall Dining Hall each evening. I do not want to leave the impression that we con- sidered Central in those days to be an oasis of economic or cultural depravity, unaware of the seminal demands which a developing post war civilization would thrust upon us. Even in those early days before the advent of the War on Poverty and the Welfare State, we had devel- oped a program for the underprivileged. In fact we were all underprivileged, but didn’t know it-and that is prob- ably the only thing that saved us! Before the great experi- ments with Cluster Colleges of the bo’s, we were a cluster college by necessity, with the capacity to call most of our students and half of the faculty together in the bookstore. Before the energy crisis of 1973 we had developed a very effective cooperative system for reducing the high cost of electrical energy in the basement of the women’s dorm based upon a shared plan of responsibility for all couples using that facility on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday even- ings. Unhappily, all of the administration at that time did not share our foresight, and Dean Cravens persistently thwarted our conserving efforts by deliberating generating use of electricity for lights which many of LIS felt were umecessary. That, of course, is not the last time that col- lege administrations will be accused of being fossil wit- nesses to outmoded conventions or rapidly receding pasts! I’m sure that Dean Cravens’ fears were wholly unsub- stantiated, however, for in those days of chivalry, each male member of our Freshman class had been notified of a rule wherein no couple was to be seen standing together more closely than 18 inches. We solved that simple rule by an ingenious invention of logical sophistry-we always saw to it that we were not seen when we were less than 18 inches apart! 11 Obviously you did not ask me here to remind you of those golden days of yore, but as trivial as these remaxks may seem, they do illustrate for me something which I believe very deeply about the quality of education that institutions such as this one has to offer. There are many sophisticated advantages that colleges of our type cannot offer to this or coming generations of students, and I’m sure in moments of discontent you have argued as did we, that small Christian colleges are for small Christians. But I profoundly believe that after you have forgotten all of the courses you have taken here, after you have discarded your textbooks and your class notes, after you have even forgotten most of your teachers or classmates, what you will have left, if you have not been cheated, will be an experience in community, intellectual intimacy, and human relationships that will in the final analysis be more im- portant than anything else you have received, or will receive, today. It has been estimated that the average freshman comes to college today with something between 28 and 30 thou- sand hours of being talked at, or spent in sitting passively absorbing information from a television set or a teacher. Most of you have added something between 4 and 5 thou- sand more hours in similar activities patiently borne over these past four years. I have no illusions that what I say in these brief moments will add greatly to your accumu- lated learning or unlearning as the case may be. But I would like to reflect with you briefly upon the meaning of an occasion such as this. The topic which I have chosen is “Questions Past- Questions Future.” It reflects an opinion that human his- tory can be reasonably looked upon as the attempt of each generation of peoples to answer questions inherent in the nature of their existence and crucial for their mean- ingful survival. In a book I would consider to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century, The Adventure of Ideas, Alfred North Whitehead argued that great ideas are the hidden driving force of history, haunting humanity, “evei appearing in specialized guise as compulsory on action by reason of its appeal to the uneasy conscience of the age,” and added that the history of western intellectual de,elopmex could be seen as nothing more than a “foot- note to Plato.” Behind the idea, however, is always the question- the critical question that agitates the mind and soul of a redezming remnant-men and women who look and probe beioad the horizons and below the surfaces for answers to tantalizing questions. Greek civilization can be seen as an effort by a uniquely endowed and agitated few to find answers to questions that lay embedded within the very nature cf their existence. The questions which they asked, served as catalysts for generation after generation of agon- izing study, controversy, and debate. What is the Nature of Reality? What do we really know? What is the nature 12 of Truth, of Beauty? of Goodness? What is the character for a job in his profession. The gloomy projections for of the virtuous man or woman? If a man die, shall he live those aspiring to teach at the college level indicate that again? by something like 1985, the colleges and universities will Moments such as these are always occasions for taking have completely absorbed all potential for utilizing Ph.D stock. All of you, with parents and friends, can look upon graduates in the teaching field. I would remind you how- this achievement with some sense of pride and accomplish- ever, that even in the best of times no generation of grad- ment. Many of the questions of yesterday have now been uates has ever had great assurance about its economic answered-whether you could get into college, whether future and you are no exception. What is more important you could meet the financial demands successfully, whether is whether you have been able to extract from a liberal you could get through, or survive the labyrinth of hurdles, education that breadth of understanding and insight into assignments, and examinations to get to this point. The the problems of our society, coupled with a proclivity for mere fact that many of you are here today has undoubtedly hard work, second mile effort, and patience. I remember come as something of a shock to some of your parents or as a boy on the farm excitingly watching a nest of chicks teachers who still believe in miracles. hatch one day. All of them had made it except one and I said to my mother, I think I’ll help this little fellow out. I wish I could say to you now, “Relax-take things But she said something I have never forgotten: “No son, easy-you’re on Easy Street, and your degree is an Open if he doesn’t have the strength to break the shell, he’ll never Sesame to an uncloyed future-’’ But all of us know that have the strength to live.” The resources within you are is not true. The final examinations are behind you, but as important as the opportunities before you. the greater examination is now before you. I remember taking a course in mathematics one time and discovering You also come to a moment in our national history to my delight that the book was organized with problems in which we face a crisis in self-confidence. The vision of at the front and answers at the back. I said to myself- an untamed wilderness, open frontiers, and unlimited re- I’ve got it made-until I discovered that in between the sources which your forefathers enjoyed has evaporated. problems and the answers there was an agonizing interlude The oil embargo of 1973 struck home forcibly to all of of struggle and agony-and the longer I live, the more I us, something we should have known, that there are limits have come to believe that the larger format of life is, to growth. As one cartoonist portrayed it recently, we are questions at the beginning, questions in the middle, and now playing a new game called SHORTAGE-”the first questions in the end-for as John Dewey suggested one person to run out of everything gets to quit playing.” time, most of the big questions in life we never solve, we The crisis in energy, however, is not our largest crisis. just get over them. Our greatest crisis is the crisis in values. While the legacy I wish that, at this moment, we could say to you, of Watergate should not have shocked anyone who has this is what we will take up tomorrow, this is your assign- read the Old Testament and understood its thesis that each ment, if you want the larger A of future success and of us is beset with an insatiable proclivity for greed and happiness. If there is one thing you should have learned power, not too many of us read the Bible that carefully at this point, it is that the future is unpredictable, and anymore. The shock of Watergate was even a more pro- never repeats itself exactly. The Chinese have a saying found shock for education-for these were the best and that “It is very difficult to prophesy-particularly about the brightest! Until we are reminded of Plato’s suggestion the future.” Even our most sophisticated instruments of that virtue is not simply a matter of learning, and may analysis tell us very little about what lies before us, 24 not be capable of being taught, we will be in for even hours or 24 years. It has been pointed out that if you more severe upheaval. The one commodity your generation had lived in New York City in the year 1880, observed and that of your children will be in most desperate need the ratio of horses to men, and used every scientific means of, is not more gas, more electricity, more copper, more for projecting the future of the city, you would have con- platinum, but simply more virtue-and virtue is not some- cluded with every reason for confidence, that the city by thing which your degree automatically carries with it. It 1975 would be under approximately six foot of horse is something partially caught, partially taught, but in the manure! You might use the same calculations in studying final analysis, self-developed. Underdeveloped virtue in the the growth of pollution and junk yards and conclude that future is more important than underdeveloped resources. Indianapolis by the year 2100 will be under a similar The unconscious assumption underlying the pursuit of layer of plastic garbage. happiness in America since 1776 has been the assumption Some of you are already looking anxiously at a job that the reservoir of nature’s bounty is unlimited. Thus we market that for many of you has evaporated even within have identified the achievement of happiness with quanti- the period you have been in school. 1 interviewed a young tative growth and development. Each step upward has been man recently who received his Ph.D in January and had symbolized by greater horsepower in Fords that look like traveled personally to 27 colleges and universities looking Cadillacs, larger swimming pools, aircraft that get us faster 13 woman, every man, black or white, can be realized. Your generation will live in a technological society vastly more complex than their generation. The garden peas which I watched my mother prepare as a boy, by re- cent analysis, now require over 17,000 job classifications to be produced in a can ready for consumption. The two most dangerous things in my grandfather’s day was a double-barrelled shotgun and a runaway team of horses. The most dangerous reality you may live with is a com- puterized technology that may run away from human con- trol. The basic structure of a medical science that may not only produce life, but determine its sex and its character, and prolong it interminably is already with us. And how shall we live in a world in which meaningful existence will be determined by whether and who decides to pull the plugs? The essential question of the future will not be whether computers can reason, but whether as a race we will lose our human capacity to reason, once we have turned our destiny over to the machines? You graduate today from an institution that has been labeled as an endangered species on the American scene. Whether colleges like this one will survive or become extinct is not acedemic question. If you have been and faster to points at which we have less and less reason an served well, as thousands of alumni before you, you will for being, larger and larger multiversities that offer more leave this institution today with much more than a pig- and more specialization in the name of education, and less skin. You will leave it, as I left it, with precious memories and less in the name of meaningful learning. The essential and experiences of men and women who made my life question of your generation will not be, how can we pro- different because they shared sacrificially with me the duce more and more, but how can we develop a quality vision of meaning by which they lived. I pay homage today of life that is not identical with quantity of accumulation. to a professor of sociology, Dr. Lowell Maechtle from whom We may not need higher standards of living, but we will I caught passion for scholarship and social concern; to a need higher standards of loving and sensitivity. professor of history, Dr. DeVries, who gave me a vision of A major plank in the American dream of 1776 was the scope of history, from a philosophy professor, Dr. Robert that assertion that all men are created equal. The paradox- Cramer, who nurtured the philosophical muse within me ical nature of that belief, symbolized in the very fact that by a model of precise thought and action. I understand he the author of the Declaration of Independence was a slave- has since I knew him, gone on to be known as the tap- holder, remains to vex your generation despite the tremen- dancing dean. If you have been well served, you too will dous progress made. The obvious fact that we are not in carry these, the most precious treasures of these past four fact created equal is reflected in the tremendous dispar- years, with you. But the question of whether others will ities that exist between rich and poor, black and white, have the same opportunity is in your hands, for only as white and white, male and female in our contemporary you and thousands of others determine that schools like society. It is still true as it was 20 years ago that 75% Indiana Central will stand with doors open to your chil- of our nation’s wealth is held by 20% or 1/5 of our dren and their children after them, will she survive. families. I have no hope that your generation will oblit- erate those inequalities. We may and must legislate for Questions past-Questions future. There is no escape equality of opportunity, but we cannot legislate equality. from this, the human dilemma. The Chinese have an Inequalities between male and female will remain-and ancient curse which goes, “May you live in interesting against the unisexualists who want to act as if that isn’t times.” They saw it as a curse, for the ideal life was vis- so, I can only say I hope that they’re not successful in my ualized in terms of harmony and tranquility-the hope that lifetime. An early biology teacher taught me that there the tomorrows would honor their yesterdays, and life would is a uus deferens between male and female, and that is have no surprises. If we have learned one thing from his- one proposition I have never doubted. The question remains tory it is that there will be surprises, and the future will however; What will it mean to live in a society in which be different. Before a future in which questions abound human resources inhibited by ignorance and prejudice will then, I leave it not as a curse, but as a blessing. “May you be unleashed in a way that the full potential of every live in interesting times.” 14 In Spite of Morning Rain, Alumni Day ‘76 a Success

“When it rains, it pours.” So the saying goes, and so celebration and farewell party that was to mark her retire- it went on Alumni Day 1976, when the day began with ment from the university. Dr. Cramer noted the pain many a drowning downpour that many were afraid would dampen alumni felt in losing Dr. William P. Morgan ’19, Dr. Harry the spirits of the day. McGuff ’52, Dr. Lois T. Fouts ’32, Mrs. Frieda Bedwell, But spirits weren’t dampened, and by shortly after and Mrs. I. J. Good ‘59. The group assembled rose for a noon the sun had come out and begun to dry off the moment of silence in honor of those who had died. campus and turn the day into a bright success. As the program got underway, Jim Brunnemer, Direc- The day’s activities began with breakfasts for the ICU tor of Alumni Relations at ICU, introduced the classes of Alumni Board of Directors, and for three other alumni 1926 and 1951, celebrating 50 and 25 year anniversaries groups: art and music alumni, and the Fifty Years Club. respectively, and told the group of the other reunions sched- In all, nearly two hundred persons attended the morning uled for the afternoon. meals on the ICU campus which was adorned with an already progressing library facility under construction. Jim then went on to introduce the narrator of the Following the breakfasts and the gathering for coffee morning convocation, Jim Ream, a professor in ICUs and conversation with alumni and faculty members, several Department of Speech and Theatre. hundred alumni met in Ransburg Auditorium in Esch Jim took the audience on a rambling and humorous Hall for the presentation of the annual alumni convocation look at ICU through the years. The program touched on program. the music that accompanied silent films in a skit featuring This year the program was under the direction of Carol Alumni News Editor Terry Taylor ’73, his wife, Beverly ( McComb) Gossman ’60. Carol’s production was called (Butler) ’74, and Admissions Counselor Greg Michael ’69. “ICU through Music.” Alumnus Kathy Hoagland ‘75 and student John Carlile To begin the program, Dr. Robert Cramer, ICUs performed that Nelson Eddy and Jeannette McDonald first Distinguished Professor, eulogized the several mem- favorite, “Indian Love Call” . . . in costume. After their bers of the ICU faculty and staff who had died in the last duet, the audience was treated to an Indiana Central version year. Most recent of those to die was Mary Streets ‘70, of “The Wizard of Oz” when Jena Jones ’74 (Dorothy), hostess of the campus cupboard for many years, and resi- Gordon Geiger ’47 (the cowardly lion), Gene Lausch ’60 dent counselor for hundreds of ICU students, faculty and (The Tin Woodman), and Keith Brown ’51 (Scare- alumni. Mary died just two weeks before the scheduled crow) found happiness just off Otterbein Avenue.

Effie Brown ’54 Voted Alumni President, Five Others Voted to Alumni Board

Effie Brown has been elected president-elect of the her husband, Keith, are the parents of four children. Alumni Association of Indiana Central University by its Mrs. Anthony, a 1965 graduate of Indiana Central, members in a recent election. She will assume the office received her Masters from Ball State. She is currently of president in May, 1977. teaching special education children. She and her husband, Mary Kay Anthony will become president for the Tom, have two children. 1976-77 school year during the Annual Awards Banquet Directors elected to the Alumni Board include Louise on Alumni Day, May 15, 1976. Mrs. Brown is a librarian at Perry Meridian High Bailey of Indianapolis, Larry Axel of Lafayette, Calvin School in Indianapolis and earned her undergraduate de- Brandenburg of Columbus, Robert Jewel1 of Indianapolis, gree from Indiana Central in 1954 and her Masters from and Richard Sanders of Bargersville. Butler. She belongs to several teacher organizations and The new officers and directors assumed their duties the Indiana Central Alumni Board of Directors. She and Saturday, May 15 during the Alumni Day activities. 15 Among the other features of the convocation were a spoof of President Sease by his daughter Cheri and his son, David, who is an ICU senior, and a rendition of the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B by three ICU students: Terri Stucker, Becky Wright and Vicki Ackerman. Senior Dave Lofland had two parts in the program- appearing as both Elvis Presley and as a seudent in a battle with the campus's super fly, which eventually gains enough strength to drag him off the stage. Music was provided for the group by both alumnus Jeff Trees '71 and the campus singing group called "Cele- brate the Sun." Among other persons appearing in the morning pro- gram were Effie (Buchanan) Brown '54 (president elect of the alumni board of directors), Admissions Counselor Dave Ivory '75, ICU Data Processing director Larry Col- lins '71, Mary Kay (Coon)Anthony '65 (President of the ICU Alumni Board of Directors), Paul Hirst '32, and Joe Gossman '60, husband of the program's director. Special mention should be given to piano music pro- vided for the program by Mrs. Jean (Lewis) Hirst '31. Jean and her husband, Paul, travel hundreds of miles each spring to take part in the alumni day program. The planned outdoor picnic in the campus park was washed out by the early morning rains, but indoors in Schwitzer Center 325 alumni gathered to share a meal that had everything a picnic should have except ants. Faculty, alumni, and their families enjoyed hamburgers, salads, ice cream and watermelon on the tables normally used for Kathy Hodgland '75 and student John Carlile (above) isin in a ren'dition of "Indian Love Call," while Dave student meals. This year for the first time reunions were and Cherie Sease, children of ICU's president, spoofed to be held out of doors, but rain-sogged earth prevented him in a skit (brlow). them. Schwitzer once again hosted the meetings. After an afternoon that gave everyone a chance to rest and catch his and her breaths, activities got underway again with a pre-dinner reception that featured Dr. and Mrs. Sease, Alumni Director Jim Brunnemer and his wife, Luella '76, and the new members of the Alumni Board. The dinner that followed the reception was one of the major successes of the day, featuring fresh shrimp, lasagne, roast beef, and many other delicious foods. The awards ceremony for the evening saw Distin- guished Alumni Awards go to Henry Martinez '51, Eloise (Hardison) Banks '47 and Seaborn W. Hillis '57. The evening continued with special songs by another campus musical group called "New Life," in its last perform- ance at ICU (accompanied by Jim Brunnemer, Marshall Chambers (Director of Church Relations) and Reggie Monson ( ICU's counseling minister to students). The day came to a close with Dr. Sease's address on the state of the university. Dr. Sease told of progress in the new library, and of the many and exciting innovations made on the campus in the preceding year. 16 HAVE YOU OUTGROWN ONE? Many of us find that somewhere along the line we have acquired an insurance policy that is no longer vital to us. ALUMNI

For example, many of us have small policies that our par- ents took out years ago for us. Now that we have set up our own larger plans, these are no longer vital to the protection JSSOCIATION of our families. If you are Some persons have taken out insurance policies to cover interested in further informa- debts that have since been paid. tion, contact the Development These policies can be used as a means of making a gener- Office at Indiana Central ous contribution to Indiana Central and can provide you University. with immediate tax advantages.

Reflections (continued from page 4) experience. As members of the cast of the campus production, “Deep Are The Roots,” we spent several nights in the dorm which was under the firm control of Notice of Miss Virginia Cravens. The experience would have been even more memorable had she known of our late visiting and giggling and that we were locked out of Nondiscriminatory our room when a strong gust of wind slammed the door closed with a reverber- ating bang . . . separating us very definitely from our room key which we placed Policy As To very carefully on the table beside the bed each evening. No one volunteered to awaken Miss Cravens, so guess who was elected to wriggle through the open Students transom to unlock the door. Sometimes we sat together in the Campus Bookstore in the basement of Indiana Central University ad- Academic Hall and filled ourselves with ice cream sundaes and nurtured friend- mits students of any race, color, ships which have survived the years. We sat in the sun on the wide front steps of the old building and shared hopes, ideas and dreams. We walked beneath the national and ethnic origin to all tall trees on the front lawn and enjoyed the magical atmosphere of a college the rights, privileges, programs, campus so close and yet seemingly so far removed from the busyness of the city. and activities generally accorded or As we talked, we learned that we were alike in so many ways and different in made available to students at the so few. university. It does not discriminate There are special memories of the Sunday morning Baccalaureate Service in on the basis of race, color, national University Heights Church and the feeling of awe as the weight of the colorful hood was placed on my shoulders. I remember the solemnity of the evening and ethnic origin or sex in the Candlelighting Service held in the same church. I remember Monday morning administration of its educational and the long-awaited march across the wooden floor of the old gym to strains policies, admissions policies, schol- of Pomp and Circumstance. Then came the realization that one phase of my life arship and loan programs, and was evolving into another which promised to be more exciting than anything ahtletic and other university ad- which had come before. These memories along with a myriad of others light ministered programs. the path which, for me, has led from books to bulldozers at Indiana Central. I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO SEE WHAT LIES AHEAD! Florabelle (Williams) Wilson ’49 17 MARY STREETS

her &at4 days before her Alumni Day retirement celebration, left hundreds of Alumni saddened

The Alumni Office at Indiana Central had scheduled her retirement party for Alumni Day 1976. It was to be a celebration to mark the 25th and final year of work at ICU for 65-year-old Mary Streets. Mary, as hostess of the campus cupboard for 25 years, took charge of just about everybody on campus; she told them what they were doing right, and warned them when they were doing wrong. But, whatever she did, she did for the love of the students, faculty, administrators and alumni of the school she deeply cherished. Ironically, less than two weeks before her party, Mary collapsed and died at her Indianapolis home. The entire campus was shocked. Another friend was gone forever.

Mary was not a native of Indianapolis, nor of Indiana, even though both became her final home. She was born and raised in Bowling Green, KY, one of six children of farmer George Board and his wife, Rilda. Mary graduated from high school in Bowling Green and following the deaths of both of her parents decided to move north to Indiana’s capital city where one of her sisters was living. After getting settled she got a job as a cook-but that job wasn’t at dear old ICU. It was with our cross-town rival Bulldogs.

As cook for the Pi Phi sorority on the Butler campus Mary Streets ‘70 Mary gained quite an experience with young people. At that sorority she had the responsibility for feeding 70 young ladies and one housemother. To do it all took talent. She cooked for the girls for six years. Then one day Mary was visited by one of her deliv- erymen, a man who also happened to be a roving ad hoc ambassador for Indiana Central. His name was Hacker, and he sold canned goods. He recommended that Mary apply for a job that he had heard had opened up down at Indiana Central on the Southside. Mary applied, was interviewed, and took the job.

18 satisfy the gnawing hunger of those who could afford only “Mary . took charge of just a little, she would wink to herself and pass out seconds. She loved to talk with students and just about every- about everybody on campus; She one else whom she counted as a friend. For many years she would take time when she could eat her lunch with told them what they were doing members of the Greyhound football team. Among her friends were boys (now men) like Jim Ware, Willie Mar- right, and warned them when tin, Bill Bless, and Terry Wetherald. But the list of her friends goes on almost forever. they were doing wrong.” Her advice was free and freely given. Many persons were thankful that someone would listen and that someone cared enough to help with problems. She took pride in telling people that Mr. Miller (Leo As thousands of alumni will remember, the campus Miller, Vice-president and Treasurer of ICU ) told her that was certainly different in those post-WW I1 days. as long as she did her job as well as she did, she would always have a job at Indiana Central. She took pride, too, Esch Hall was just a dream. Basketball was still being in the fact that in 1970 the Indiana Central Alumni Associ- played amidst rain puddles in the old “temporary” gym. ation honored her by making her an honorary alumnus No one had yet heard of Lilly Hall or its Zerfas Wing. of her favorite school. Schwitzer Center was not yet a reality. Neither were New Never one to work too little, Mary would frequently Dormitory, Key Stadium, or Krannert Hall. Meals were cook for former President I. Lynd Esch when he was head- taken in the basement of Dailey Hall, and the Bookstore ing up the Indiana Central family. Often, without being and Cupboard were in the basement of what is now Good asked, she baked his favorite pies, pumpkin and apple. Hall (in those days it was known as the Administration Mary was full of love. When she retired in May, she Building. ) . planned to do some traveling to visit friends and relatives When Mary walked onto campus in her early days, in California and Pennsylvania. She didn’t ever get the she worked in the serving line of the cafeteria while work- chance, though, to really leave her home: Indiana, Indi- ing in the Cupboard. anapolis, and Indiana Central. In the Cupboard, all food was cooked by hand, served up by hand, and when the eating had finished, the dishes were washed by hand. It was all in a day’s work for Mary. She soon found that she liked working at 4001 Ot- Other Recent Deaths terbein (the old school address) so well that she made it a point to arrive each day before the time that she had The Alumni News has learned of the death in Feb- to arrive. ruary, 1976, of Dr. Eugene N. Beesley, who received an honorary degree from ICU in 1964. Dr. Beesley was a She usually got to her door about 6:45 a.m. each former president of Eli Lilly and Co. in Indianapolis, and morning Monday through Friday. It was usually after 4 a long-time friend of Indiana Central. p.m. each afternoon when she locked the door to a Cup- The Alumni News has learned of the death of Mrs. board clean and ready to go for students on another day. Mary Ella Smith, D.D. Mary Ella was the wife of Dr. Ben- What did the Cupboard serve in its years in Good jamin F. Smith ’43, a former ICU trustee, and former su- Hall and later in Esch Hall that attracted students and perintendent of the North Indiana Conference of the faculty members alike? On the menu were such outstand- U.M. Church. Mrs. Smith and her husband have long been ing gourmet delicacies as tenderloins, hot dogs, the all friends of ICU. American favorite-the hamburger, 5c cokes (a thing Mary Streets ’70, long the hostess of the campus cup- non-existent in post-inflation America.), ice cream, ham board and ad hoc counselor and philosopher for the entire and cheese sandwiches, pizza burgers, chili, and pie. Those campus, died on May 3, 1976 less than two weeks before whose appetites rose early in the morning could also enjoy a scheduled retirement celebration for her on Alumni Day. bacon, eggs and toast. It was a place that could feed the Mary will be missed by generations of Central graduates. hungriest of students with spiritual as well as physical food. Emil W. Swift ’35, a veteran of WW I and a for- mer employee of Marion County (IN) recorder’s office, Often and unashamedly Mary would literally give food died in February of 1976 it has been learned. At the time to students who would otherwise have gone hungry with- of his death, Emil was living in a nursing home in out her generosity. And if a first helping of food didn’t Indianapolis. 19 Indiana Central and the American Revolut i on Bicentennial

a reflection on the heritage that put Indiana Central in the genealogy and tradition of the American Revolution by Dwight L. Smith ’40

The long awaited Bicentennial year is upon us. Books, should be. Should we go into hibernation until the whole editorials, commissions, resolutions, legislative enactments, thing is over? Should we succumb and become totally Madison Avenue, and even comic strips tell us how the involved, in the knowledge that another such occasion, if occasion should be celebrated. Our Bicentennial is being we survive this one, is ninety-nine years away? Or should used and abused. It is at once as refreshing and exhilerating we make our “contribution” in some unusual form-concoct as the air on a cold crisp October night or as pervasive a bicentennial souffle, invent a spirit of ’76 monkey wrench, and destructive as an urban smog. It ranges from the whole- conduct a founding fathers tour of the Amazon, plant Lex- some to the atrocious, from the sublime to the ridiculous, ington and Concord hybrid corn, or sponsor a bicentennial from the sane to the insane, from the solemn to the yawning marathon? Perhaps the last will come spon- raucous. We pour our time, talents, energies, and monies taneously as the year rolls on! into the Bicentennial. It is almost as if we were on some On balance, however, it is appropriate to celebrate, kind of a binge. The bones of the poor founding fathers even joyously and perhaps ridiculously at times. “Observ- are probably restless with a mixture of appreciation, won- ance” is probably a better term than “celebration.” Happily, derment, and consternation at what is going on. It is the observance is going on in many appropriate ways, in ways rationale of everything from a blind patriotism to whole- that need to be applauded and encouraged. sale debunking of everything we ever held sacred about It may be asked what all of this has to do with Indiana our country. Central University. Other than for the generalization that We hardly know what our reaction to all of this the Bicentennial is for the entire United States and its 20 friends, Indiana Central is involved in a very important The evolutionary stages through which the colonial terri- way. It seems appropriate to reflect on the heritage that tory were to pass were to lead to statehood on a full and puts Indiana Central in the genealogy and tradition of the equal basis with the original states. Further, even though American Revolution. the Articles of Confederation under which the Congress The American Revolution did not seek to upset an operated and its successor our present Constitution did not established order or to replace one set of beliefs and prin- contain bills of rights, there was appended to the Ordinance ciples with another set of values. It was not attempting to of 1787 a bill of rights called Articles of Compact. Among revolutionize. It reaffirmed, instead, timeless truths that other significant assertions it affirmed that “Religion, were “unalienable” because they were God-given. It sought morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good govern- to protect these rights and to improve mankind‘s condition ment and the happiness of mankind, schools and the through the man-created mechanism of government. The means of education shall forever be encouraged.” initial thrust of the American Revolution was to achieve Precedents were soon established under the provisions recognition of their rights. Sensing the futility of this, they of these enlightened colonial documents. Following their sought independence so they could constitute a new gov- examples and in due time statehood came to Indiana. Its ernment to serve as the guarantor of these rights. Indepen- political hub was soon located at Indianapolis. And it was dence became the goal only when the colonials concluded here, to its everlasting good fortune, that Indiana Central the government of their mother country no longer served was established near the beginning of the present century.

”. . . Indiana Central continues to confirm the validity of the pursuit of a quality education and sound moral principles. Where there is a dedication to the betterment of mankind, accomplishment will follow.”

its principle role. They were concerned they were losing The Indianapolis-Marion county experiment in gov- what they already had. They wanted to preserve something ernment is an enlightened prototype model that typifies not to replace it with a new platform or a new philosophy. the hallmarks of the American way in that it seeks to In American eyes, English colonial policy had not preserve man’s fundamental rights and to improve his allowed for the exercise of their rights. As American colo- circumstances. Continuing a commitment made in the nial policy was established, however, there was a determin- early days of the Republic to the concept of encouraging ation and resolve came early. The new United States was and fostering education, Indiana Central is dedicated to given a colonial area along with its independence at the the instruction and improvement of the mind of the indi- end of the American Revolution. This was bounded by vidual so that he can contribute to the betterment of man- the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, kind. In the finest tradition of American higher education stretching from the Great Lakes to Florida. Circumstances Indiana Central does not deal with chauvinism nor maudlin determined that the area north of the Ohio River would sentiment. Its mission is to transmit our heritage, to instill become the laboratory in which American colonial policy knowledge, vision, inspiration, and pragmatism. would be given its initial and most mportant tests. The Bicentennial is properly the occasion when we It was the collective wisdom and inspired genius of recall America’s heritage. The American Revolution itself the members of the Congress that made the experiment a was an assertion of the fundamental rights and responsi- noble one. The details of one of the most enlightened bilities of man, the rights proclaimed in the classical pass- colonial policies in all history are embodied in two docu- ages of the Declaration of Independence and the responsi- ments. The Ordinance of 1785 with its system of survey bilities of maintaining the means whereby those rights are of public lands into townships and sections is the founda- preserved and perpetuated. Under the dedicated leadership tion for our public land system. (It has even been copied of men like Roberts, Bonebrake, Good, Esch, and Sease, by the Canadians.) It is appropriate to note here that the and with the devoted efforts of scores of faculty members, federal government pledged a square mile of every town- the sustained support of a concerned constituency, and the ship of the public domain to be used to further the cause loyalty of generations of alumni, Indiana Central continues of public education. to confirm the validity of the pursuit of a quality educa- The second document, the Ordinance of 1787, fami- tion and sound moral principles. Where there is a dedica- liarly known as the Northwest Ordinance, was primarily tion to the betterment of manknd, accomplishment will concerned with political matters. Under its provisions colo- follow. nial status was only a temporary condition pending increase Indiana Central’s observance of the Bicentennial is of populaton and development of political sophistication. at once fitting and ongoing. 21 ICU ALUMNI PERSONALS

1922 1936 served as a basketball official for a Oscar M. Baker of rural Warsaw, IN, In this year’s alumni annual fund re- number of years and was an outstand- a former pastor, has now completed port Evelyn Blackwoods maiden name ing shortstop with the Muncie Citizens 28 years of Truth for Today Ministry. was misprinted. Her maiden name was baseball team. The Muncie South ath- Already in 1976 he and his wife, Mae, Hockett, not Hacket, as printed. letic field was named Lowell Barnett have traveled to the west coast and to Field on November 3, 1972. Odie and Illinois to speak at conferences. In Verrollton C. Shad gave notice on his wife, May (Trumbull) ’36, live the fall of 1975 Oscar took a trip of May 18, 1976 to the Champaign, IL, at Muncie. seven days in which he drove 1,675 schools that he would retire at the miles and spoke seven times. end of the school year. His tenure of 1941 office has covered 31 years and he George E. McAllister retired June 1, 1927 has now completed over 40 years as 1976 from the Muncie, IN, city a music educator. At the time of the schools. His wife, Elizabeth, retired Rev. G. Shubert Frye of Hortonville, announcement Verrollton had been as head of the art department at Delta NY, is vice chairman of the Gray serving as director of music for the High School in 1975. The couple’s Panthers. He also recently played the Champaign Community Schools Unit daughter, Myrna, is now head of the part of Ben Franklin in a production 4. Verrollton and his wife, Wilma French department at Augustana Col- of “1776” and was the narrator of Jane (Clifton) ’34 live in Champaign. lege. The McAllisters live in Muncie. a stage production of Thornton Wild- er’s “Our Town.” Rev. Frye lives in 1943 1937 Hortonville, NY. Mary (Rider) Bare, a teacher in the Judge Dyson W. Cox was appointed Casey, IL, Jr. H.S., was recently elected 1928 to the position of Judge of the San president of the Junior High Associa- Howard R. Patton of North Bruns- Bernardino Co. Municipal Court to tion of Illinois. Mary has taught at wick, NJ, has been named a featured sit in Ontario, CA on October 21, Casey since 1962. She is also director alumnus of the Metropolitan New 1975. He now lives in Upland, CA. of the Gifted Reimbursement Program York Alumni of Alpha Phi Omega Louise (Stoup) Downey is now in at Casey, and is the in-service con- Fraternity. Howard, now retired, con- her 35th year of teaching. She teaches sultant for the Area Service Center tinues to give a great deal of his time developmental reading for the Merrill- for Educators of Gifted and Talented to the fraternity and to scouting in ville, IN, Community Schools. Though Students located in Urbana, IL. She the Northeast. she says that she is planning to retire and her husband, Lucian, a former soon, she continues to live in Merrill- student of the class of 1942, live in 1934 ville. Effingham, IL. Noel Genth, a teacher and coach for Oran Hollander retired at the end of 1946 many years in Indiana retired at the the 75-76 school year from his posi- Former student John W. Mayhugh of end of the 1975-76 school year. He is tion as principal of the Webb School the Naval Weapons Support Center credited with starting the high school in Franklin, IN. He says that he plans in Indiana at Crane has been elected track program in Columbus, IN. He to stay active in community affairs. to the board of directors of the M.T.M. is past president of the Columbus Oran lives in Franklin. Classroom Teachers Association. Association for Standards and Re- search. He lives in Plainville, IN. 1939 Rev. Keith B. Simpson retired from the ministry in June of 1976. He had Lowell M. “Odie” Barnett, a Muncie, 1948 been serving the Westbein Church in IN, schoolman since 1941 and athletic Dr. Ann (Cory) Bretz recently pre- Saybrook, IL. Following a retirement director at Muncie South H.S. since sented a paper to the West Coast Con- party, Rev. Simpson and his wife, 1964, retired at the end of the 1975- ference on Christianity and Literature Josephine (Eickmann) ’34, moved to 76 school year. Odie was one of Indi- at Westmont College in Santa Bar- Monmouth, IL. ana’s best known sports figures. He bara, CA. The paper was entitled “My 22 Period for Prayer: Confession in Emily 1953 toties, Inc. Wayne was formerly man- Dickinson’s Fascicle 25.” Dr. Bretz Rev. Herman A. Emmett, pastor of ager of Quality Standards Develop- has also recently been named Assistant the Glenwood U.M. Church in Colum- ment. He and his wife live in Union, to the President and Director of De- bus, OH, has been appointed by Bish- MI. velopment at VanderCook College of op Gerald Ensley to the World Meth- 1959 Music. odist Council in Dublin, Ireland, in Former student Charles Bone is presi- August. He is one of seven selected 1949 dent of Dajon Dist., Inc. He lives in from the West Ohio Conference. Dr. Walter Smith, Jr., former senior Indiana’s capital city. minister at ICUs neighboring Uni- Dr. Bruce Hiiton, honored at the 1975 Lynn E. Longenbaugh and his wife, versity Heights U.M. Church, was rec- ICU commencement with a Doctor Peggy (Gibson) ’60, have moved to ognized for his preaching abilities in of Divinity degree, recently was hon- Elgin, IL where Lynn has assumed the a recent column of Dr. George W. ored with an honorary degree from pastorship of the Wesley U.M. Church. Crane. Crane said that he had hap- Westmar College in LeMars, IA. Dr. Henry M. Taylor has been named to pened to attend a small country church Hilton’s lecture schedule has recently the Department of Metropolitan De- where Dr. Smith was the guest speaker taken him to Knox College, to Oral velopment commission in Indian- for the morning. Crane was impressed Roberts University, to Loyola Univer- apolis. Hank was listed in the 1975- and referred to Smith a “topnotch as sity (New Orleans), to St. Olaf Col- 76 edition of Who’s Who Among orator.” lege, and to Amarillo College. The Na- Black Americans. He lives in Indian- tional Center for Bioethics, of which 1950 apolis. Dr. Hilton is director, recently re- Dr. Harley J. Griffith Jr. has been located to the campus of Drew Uni- 1960 elected chairman of the conference versity. Naomi (Shierling) Wood teaches first and institute division of the National grade at Greenbriar School and is 1 University Extension Association. A 1955 employed by the Anderson Commu- member of the staff of Purdue Univer- Dr. J. Paul Hunter was recently elected nity Hospital. She lives in Anderson, sity since 1963, Dr. Griffith was pro- to Phi Beta Kappa. He also has a IN. moted to his present post as director new book out. It is entitled “Occa- of the division of conferences and as- sional Form.” The book is published 1961 sistant director of the continuing edu- by the Johns Hopkins U. Press. Dr. Carol Purichia has returned to Indiana cation administration in 1975. Hunter, a resident of Atlanta, GA, is State University as an assistant foot- ball coach. He had filled the same posi- Francis J. LaRussa is assistant principal chairman of department of English at tion for several years before moving of the Quartz Hill H.S. in Lancaster, Emory U. to Western Illinois in 1973. CA. Francis earned an MS from But- 1956 Phil B. Reed IV, his wife, Faye, and ler U. and recently celebrated a 25th Dan Waterfill has accepted a position son, Phil, stopped by the alumni office wedding anniversary. as Southwestern Schools Superinten- recently and informed the Alumni dent. He and his wife, Ruth Ann, 1951 News that the family is living in James L. Mansfield is now director of live in Charlestown, IN. Ventura, CA. Phil is a psychiatric social the office of osteopathic medicine for 1957 worker and serves as unit coordinator the American Osteopathic Association. at the Camarillo State Hospital. He lives in Chicago, IL. Rev. Charles D. Carroll, currently a student at the Christian Theological C. Ben Schuman is athletic director, 1T52 Seminary in Indianapolis, is the new teacher and football coach at Franklin Former student Rev. Armin J. DeCotes pastor of Faith U.M. Church in Green- Central Middle School in Indianapolis. has been named the pastor of the field, IN, where he now lives. In 1975 he earned his M.S. in Health Sunnyside Road Church of God in and Safety from Indiana University. 1958 Indianapolis, IN. He lives in Indianapolis. Wayne E. Stutsman has been appoint- David L. Saunders is minister at First ed manager of corporate quality assur- 1962 Presbyterian Church State Center, IA, ance, Pharmaceutical and Professional Rev. Tyron L. Inbody has recently while living in the town of Eldora. Products-Domestic for Miles Labora- been elected to a position as assistant 23 Personals (continued)

professor of theology at United Theo- at Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indian- Richard L. Buchanan, a German teach- logical Seminary in Dayton, OH. Ty- apolis. She lives in Brownsburg, IN. er in Cincinnati, OH, recently received ron’s wife is Central graduate Frances Jack Johnson has been named athletic a law degree from Chase Law School. (Reger) ’62. director and basketball coach at the Richard is vice president of the Green- Northwood Institute in West Baden, hills-Forest Park Teachers Association Larry Miller is assistant director of IN. Jack has served at the institute and a member of its negotiating team. the Marion Co., IN, Department of since 1970 as a teacher and assistant Lori (Bent ) Chupp is an RN in the Public Welfare. He lives in Beech basketball coach. He and his wife, Intensive Care Nursery in Ft. Wayne, Grove, IN, with his wife, Sharon, and Janice, live in rural French Lick. IN. She and her husband, Daniel, have his two sons Larry Jr. and David. two children-Darien Tamara 7, and Phil1 Roberts is now director of oper- Reba (Boyd) Wooden, wife of ICU David Nathan 4. They live in Ft. ations for Christian Home Services. faculty member Nuel Wooden, teaches Wayne. He lives in Urbandale, IA. psychology and US. history at Perry The News has learned that Meridian High School in Marion Co., Alumni 1966 Amy (Asher) Robinson has received IN. She and Nuel live in Indianapolis Linda R. Jester, former director of her master’s degree from Indiana Uni- and have two children-Jeff 9, and tourism for the state of Indiana, has versity-Purdue University, Indianapo- Cindi 7. been named to the new position of lis. She lives in the Hoosier capital. director of public relations for both 1 969 1963 the Downtown and Airport Hilton St. Paul’s Nursery School in Muncie, Hotels in Indianapolis where she con- Thomas A. Schroeder is an assistant IN, has hired Kathleen (Kirkpatrick) tinues to live. professor of meteorology at the Uni- Clemenz to teach four-year-olds. Kath- versity of Hawaii. He lives in Hono- William H. Rodgers of Greenfield, leen and her husband, Lorin ’63, live lulu. IN, is department head for accounting in Muncie. for the Western Electric Co. The Alumni News has learned that William R. Kiesel has been promoted Former student Cynthia E. Winters Harry “Jack” Tilson has been elected to vice president of the Traub and Co. of Indianapolis teaches third grade for a director of the Columbia Club in investment company in Indianapolis the Indianapolis Public Schools at Indianapolis. He lives in the Hoosier where he lives. Before his promotion, School #52. In 1975, she earned her capital. William had been government and MS from Butler U. municipal bond trader for the com- 1970 pany. 1967 John All received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. He 1964 Thomas M. Crump, manager of the Market Street Branch of the Indiana is currently teaching courses in agri- Dave Brady is now working with the National Bank in Indianapolis, has cultural entomology at the University Traveling Nikon Camera Company been named a vice president of the of Georgia. He lives in the Georgia school of photography. He now lives bank. He lives in Indianapolis. town of Athens. in Martinsville, IN. Ray Trisler ’67 and his wife, Terry Abbie (Robinson) Artis received John W. Comstock is now an educa- (Stine), a former student from the her M.S. degree from Indiana Univer- tion therapist and GED Coordinator class of ’65, have purchased a “Spirit sity in September of 1975. Ms. Artis at the Dr. Norman M. Beatty Memo- of ’76” motel in Richmond, IN. Ray was appointed instructor and practi- rial Hospital. His wife, Mary Alice is commuting to his job at Eli Lilly cum-one supervisor of early childhood (Kolkmeier ) ’65, is library supervisor in Indianapolis while living in Rich- education at Sinclair Community Col- for the eight elementary school libra- mond and operating the motel. lege in Dayton, OH. She instructs early ries for the city of Mishawaka. The childhood education courses and super- couple lives in Westville, IN. 1968 vises student teachers while serving Mary (Titus) Cromer teaches fourth Harold Brown, Jr. is returning to com- as chairwoman of the Sinclair Commu- grade in one of the metropolitan plete Ph.D. requirements at NYU. He nity College Early Childhood Educa- Indianapolis school districts. Mary Jane expects to finish his program in June, tion Screening Committee. She lives completed her Master’s degree in 1975 1977. He lives in New York, NY. in Centerville, OH. 24 Former student Rev. Richard A. Aus- a part-time instructor of nursing at 1973 tin is pastor of the Peru, IN, First Triton College. She now lives in Addi- Roger Cunningham is finishing his Brethren Church. He lives in Peru. son, IL. final year at Asbury Seminary. He has J. Donald Cossairt completed the re- James S. Mayfield of Lakewood, NJ, been active in evangelism for the last quirements for a Ph.D. in experimental is a vice president for the Robert S. three years and has preached all over nuclear physics at Indiana University Lyons and Associates firm. the US. and in four countries in Latin in September of 1975. His dissertation America. Steven R. Wittenauer is cutrently serv- reported on ,the results of a nuclear ing as principal of the Otterbein Ele- physics experiment which was con- D. Vincent Flecker of Indianapolis is mentary School in Otterbein, IN. He ducted during the winter of 1974-75 a teacher and head wrestling coach at and his wife, Nancy, are expecting L at the University of Michigan Cyclo- Washington H.S. in the Hoosier capi- their third child. The family lives in tron Laboratory in Ann Arbor, MI. He tal. Vincent married Peggy Anne the Hoosier town of Fowler. also reported on some of the results Smith in June of 1975. of this experiment at the Second Inter- national Conference on Clustering 1972 J. Robert Piper ’73 is now living in Phenomena in Nuclei at the Univer- Dave Bowman is now the Director of Indianapolis. He has been employed sity of Maryland in April, 1975. He Autolite Technical Services (of the since September of 1973 at the Reid- is currently working at the Cyclotron Fram Corp.) in Bluffton, OH. Dave Holcomb Co. in Indiana’s capital city. Institute at Texas A & M University provides technical service to the sales James L. Reynolds now works as a in College Station, TX, where he lives. force and to customers. Dave and his residence counselor at the Indiana Phyllis (Cook) Farrell is now a substi- wife, Karen, live in Bluffton. School for the Deaf in Indianapolis, tute teacher for the Indianapolis pub- where he is living. lic schools. She formerly taught for Carol Cummings of Greenfield, IN, the IPS at schools #27 and 107. is a language arts teacher in Hancock Melanie L. Shelley is now executive Co., IN. James A. Ferrier of Bloomington, IL, secretary of Wards New Way Driving has recently received notice that he Judy C. DeVore, who earned her Mas- School in Chicago, IL, where she lives. has successfully completed all five ter’s degree in 1973 from ICU, is a Virginia (Shelver) Soper is now a sections of the Certificate in Data math instructor at Franklin Jr. H.S. in Processing examination. He has work- Franklin, IN. violinist with the symphony orchestra ed in data processing management for in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where she John Eliott, a math teacher at Clinton State Farm Insurance since 1970. This and her husband are now living. The Prairie (IN) H.S., received his Mas- year he also earned his M.S. degree in ter’s degree from Purdue U. in Au- symphony is reportedly one of the business from Illinois State University. gust of 1975. He lives in Frankfort, best in South America. IN. 1971 Susan K. Gossett is now head nurse 1974 Sue Ann Carroll teaches Kindergarten in surgery in the clinic for out patients Guy E. Carnine, a graduate with at Indianapolis Public School # 110. at Indianapolis Wishard Memorial an She is a member of the Indiana Na- Hospital. She lives in Indianapolis. associate degree, received his B.S. from tional Guard and is currently working ICU in May of 1976. Guy is accounts David T. Moulton is a contract spe- oti her Master’s degree at ICU. She payable supervisor for Sanborn Elec- cialist with the Environmental Protec- lives in Indianapolis. tion Agency. He lives in Arlington, tric Co. He is a resident of Indiana’s David L. Henry has been appointed VA. capital city. atrorney-advisor in the Bureau of Annette L. Savill was appointed director Hearings and Appeals for the Social Marilyn (Gorbett) Hall is now em- of the general accounting department Security Administration of H.E.W. ployed by I.B.M. Her husband, Ron of the Indianapolis Power and Light He and his wife, Susan (Bunge) ’75, Co. in January of 1976. Annette also ’75, is now an employee of the FMC are now living in Ft. Wayne, IN. teaches accounting in ICU’s evenicg pump division. The Halls live in L. Cheryl (Catlin) Larson ’66 is now division. Indianapolis. 25 Paul A. Hass is in his second year of Illinois College of Podiatric Medicine IN, Sheriff‘s Department. He lives in law school at Indiana University. This in Chicago. Brownstown, IN. summer he will transfer to the school’s Indianapolis campus. He currently 1975 John T. McDaniel now teaches and coaches at Kouts H.S. in Valparaiso, lives in Franklin, IN. Gregory C. Crawford is now employed I IN, where he lives. L. Joyce Jones is now an English teach- by the Hubstates Pharmaceuticals Co. er and drama director at Indian Creek He is living in Indianapolis. Susan Strimple is now an RN work- High School near Indianapolis. She Birdie Gunyon is now an RN working ing as a nurse at Good Samaritan Hos- lives in the Hoosier town of Bargers- at the Methodist Hospital Coronary pital in Cincinnati, OH, where she ville. Unit. She lives in Indianapolis. lives. Marti McAdams is an RN working in Bill Lockman is now a policeman for Dennis A. Van Emon was among those the Riley Hospital Newborn Intensive Seymour, IN. Bill has worked as a who recently completed the Certified Care Unit in Indianapolis where she store detective for the William H. Public Accountant examination. Den- lives. Block Co. in Indianapolis and in spe- nis lives in Indianapolis and is a staff 1 Michael E. Mull has enrolled in the cial investigations for the Marion Co., accountant for K.B. Parrish and Co.

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26 Recent ICU Alumni Births Axel, Jenny Katherine, born on Feb- Cartwright, Megan Anne, born on No- The couple lives in Indianapolis. Na- ruary 14, 1976 to Larry '68 and Re- vember 25, 1975 to Susan (Merrick) than has one brother, Aaron. becca (Chambers) Axel '67. The cou- '66 and David Cartwright. The Cart- Gearhart, Anna Lisa, born on Septem- ple lives in Lafayette, IN, where Larry wrights live in Wabash, IN, and have ber 3, 1975 to Linda (Shady) Gear- teaches at Purdue U. one other child, Kern, who is two. hart '68 and her husband, Gerald. The Beck, Ben Hyman, born on August Combs, Scott Fletcher, born on Sep- couple lives in West Germany. 29, 1975 to Wayne C. Beck '69 and tember 21, 1975 to Virginia (Maze) Gibbons, Andrew Lane, born on De- his wife, Sally. Wayne is a science '66 and Victor M. Combs '65. The cember 20, 1975 to Dixie (Evans) teacher for Morristown, IN, H.S. The couple lives in Brownsburg, IN. Vic- Gibbons '66 and her husband, Jerry. family lives in New Palestine, IN. tor is now assistant principal at Leb- The family lives in DeKalb, IL. Becker, David Anton, born to Glenda anon H.S. in Lebanon, IN. Virginia Haddix, Katherine Elizabeth, born to (Metcalf) Becker '69 and her hus- recently earned her Master's degree C. Bruce Haddix '74 and his wife, band, Douglas, '72 on October 10,1973. from Indiana U. - Purdue U. - Indian- former Central student Ann (Schar- In December of 1975 Glenda com- apolis. brough) on January 17, 1976. Bruce 1 pleted her Master's degree in education Copeland, Mary Carolyn, born on Ap- is a junior high music teacher at at Indiana U. The family lives in ril 21, 1975 to former ICU student Plainfield, IN, Jr. H.S. The couple Greenwood, IN. Judy (Obertate) Copeland '67 and her lives in Greencastle, IN. Binner, Elizabeth Ann, born on May husband, Gary. They live in Rising Hill, Eric Nathan, born on October 6, 1976 in Newton, NJ, to Phyllis Sun, IN, and have two sons: David 5, 18, 1975 to Roger E. Hill '69 and his (Freed) '67 and Wesley C. Binner. and Bryan 3. wife, Diana (Gaier) '69. The couple They have one other child, Andy, who Cossairt, Joseph Donald, born on Jan- lives in rural Coffeyville, KS. Eric has is five. The family lives in Stockholm, uary 30, 1976 to Don '70 and his a sister, Kelle Michelle, who is five. NJ. wife, Claudia, in Bryan, TX. The fam- Hodgin, Steve D., born recently to Bowers, Sarah Elizabeth, born on No- ily lives in the Texas town of College Sandra (Armacost) Hodgin '67 and vember 11, 1975 to Jill (Parker) '69 Station. her husband, Duane. Duane is assistant and Douglas L. Bowers of Brookville, Dawson, Jennifer Ann, born on De- dean of boys at Marion, IN, H.S. The OH. cember 10, 1975 to Nancy (Parker) family lives in Marion. Bremer, Charles Lawrence, born on Dawson '63 and her husband, William. Jackson, Bradley Alan, born on Sep- January 5, 1976 to Barbara (Law- The Dawsons have two other children, tember 28, 1975 to Diane (Kerkhof) rence) Bremer '70 and her husband, John 4 and David 2. The family lives Jackson '71 and her husband, Thomas. Ronald. The Bremers live in San in Littleton, CO. The Jacksons live in Columbus, IN. Pedro, CA. Deckard, Sadie Jane, born on October Jones, Jennifer Lynn, born on August Britts, David Brian, born on October 8, 1975 to Shirley (Byram) Deckard 8, 1973 to Susan (Smith) Jones '67 18, 1975 to Margaret (Ragan) Britts '71 and her husband. The couple lives and her husband, Raymond, in Valen- '70 and her husband, Harold. The in Indianapolis. cia, Venezuela, where Susan teaches couple lives in Indianapolis where Everitt, Ryan Christopher, born on English to Spanish students. Margaret is a staff nurse for the Visit- November 3, 1975 to John T. Everitt Keene, Andrew Wayne, born on July ing Nurse Association of Indianapolis. '69 and his wife, Marie. The family 30, 1975 to James L. Keene '65 and Bryant, Timothy Joseph, born on June lives in Indianapolis where John teach- his wife, Judith (Dresslar) '66. The 9, 1974 to Judith (Hinchman) Bryant es at Lawrence Central H.S. couple lives in Greenwood, IN, where '68 and her husband, Kenneth. Judith Faust, Damon Wyatt, born on January they both teach, Larry at Greenwood, r is currently on leave from the Bloom- 15, 1976 to Wilfred and Doretta H.S. and Judith at Central 9 Voca- ington, IN, H.S. South. The family (Coddington) Faust '69. The family tional School. lives in Bloomington. lives in Evansville, IN. The maternal Kisner, Ryan Thomas, born on Janu- Byrum, Emily Marie, born on March grandparents of the baby are also ary 20, 1976 to Joyce (Moon) '64 6, 1975 to Joseph S. Byrum '67 and alumni: Ralph '43 and Esther '63 Cod- and Thomas R. Kisner of Greensburg, his wife, Ann Marie (Gillespie) '67. dington. IN. The couple moved to Wabash, Joe is director of vocational services France, Nathan Lantz, born on No- IN, on April 1, 1976. at Betty Jane Rehabilitation Center in vember 28, 1975 to Katherine (Lantz) Kistler, Kiera Rene, born March 29, Tiffin, OH, where the family lives. France '70 and her husband, Richard. 1976 to alumnus and ICU staffer Mau- 27 Recent ICU Alumni Births rice "Kip" Kistler '68 and his wife, Eli Lilly and Co. The family lives in at Indianapolis Community Hospital. Vivian. Kip is the administrator for Indianapolis. The couple and their daughter live in the American Humanics Association Neesen, Aaron Lee, born on January the Hoosier capital. on campus. He and his wife live in 23, 1976 to Sharon (Kennedy) Nee- Shepard, Erin Michele, born on April Indianapolis and have one other child, sen '71 and her husband, Ron. The 11, 1975 to Gary W. Shepard '72 and Jason, 4. Neesens live in Indiana's capital city his wife, Cynthia. The couple lives in McDonald, Nicholas E., born June 25, where Sharon has been substitute Indianapolis where Gary is a construc- 1974 to Michael J. McDonald '71 and teaching in Perry Township and tion superintendent with the Sanford his wife, Cynthia. Michael is a special Greenwood. Building Supply Association. multi-peril underwriter for the Farm Nunn, Julie Ann, born September 12, Smith, Anita Kay, born on February 9, Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. He and 1975 to Ruth (Berg) Nunn '65 and 1975 to Larry J. Smith '70 and Patricia his family live in Indianapolis. her husband, Roy. The Nunns have a (Sutton) Smith '66. Larry is facility McGee, William Bryant, born on June son, Kevin, and a daughter, Theresa. Manager for data processing for the 27, 1974 to Stephen B. McGee '66 and Prior to Julie's birth, Ruth had been Electronic Data Preparation Corp. The his wife, Martha Sue. Stephen is a teaching at Northeast Elementary family lives in Noblesville, IN. The fifth grade teacher at MacArthur School in Greenwood, IN. The family Smiths have one son, Dustin, and an- school in Perry Township in Indian- lives in Indianapolis. other daughter, Gina. apolis where the family lives. O'lllkrlley, Karen Rachel, born to alum- Smith, Conya Kathleen, born on Jan- McGough, Cara Suzanne,born on June nus and former ICU faculty member uary 20, 1976 to Connie (Farrer) '67 21, 1975 to Neil L. McGough '72 and J. Steven O'Malley '64 and his wife, and James Smith. Conya has two his wife, Deborah. The couple lives in Angeline (Gommel) '66. The family brothers: Jason, 3 and Aaron, 1%. Berne, IN. Neil is now a supervisor lives in Enid, OK, where Steven The Smith family lives in Kokomo, IN. with Central Soya, Inc. of Decatur, IN. teaches at the Graduate Seminary of Stackhouse, Katherine Ann, born on The McGoughs have one other daugh- Phillips U. Karen was born on No- September 7, 1975 to John W. Stack- ter, Audra Lee, who is three. vember 5, 1975. house '62 and his wife, Patsy (Erick- McNamara, Amber Ann born on July Powlen, Amy Bernetta, born on June son) '63. The couple lives in Indian- 11, 1975 to Tom '64 and Sondra 6, 1975 to Joyce (Brown) '61 Powlen apolis where John is director of opera- (Naab) '65 McNamara. Both are and her husband, Richard. Amy has tional financial analysis for ITT Pub- teaching at Mt. Vernon, IN. Tom is three other sisters. The family lives in lishing Company. Katherine joins head baseball coach and assistant bas- Brownsburg, IN. David 3, and John 8, her brothers. ketball coach. The family lives in Mt. Vernon. Rumsey, Edward, born in September Stone, Gregory Philip, born on MaPch Mattox, Timothy Edward born on of 1975 and recently adopted by Mar- 21, 1976 to Dennis '67 and Mary Sue April 30, 1976 to Deborah (Groves) ian E. Rumsey '74 and her husband, (Everitt) '67 Stone of Akron, OH. Mattox '73 and her husband, Ronald. Guy, in Indianapolis where they live. Swank, Brandi Suzanne, born on June The couple lives in Indianapolis. Marian is an RN at Community Hos- 14, 1975 to John M. Swank '69 and Moore, Laura Maranne, born on Feb- pital in the Hoosier capital. his wife, Laura. The Swanks live in ruary 19, 1975 to Priscilla (Tapscott) Sarles, Kathleen Elizabeth, born on Greenwood, IN. Moore '62 and her husband, Roger. March 9, 1976 to Charles E. Sarles '62 Swank, Melissa Sue, born on Septem- Pat is employed as a part-time nurse in and Donna, his wife. The Sarles fam- ber 19, 1975 to Susan (Heath) Swank surgery at Community Hospital in ily lives in Alton, IL. Charles and '72, and her husband, David. The Indianapolis where the family lives. Donna have one other child, William family lives in New Market, IN. Morgan, Shana Tzeitel, born to Bon- Guy, age 10. Targgart, Angela Marie, born on De- nie Morgan '72 and her husband, Schmidt, Gregory Scott, born on Au- cember 21, 1975 to Cheryl (Kistler) William, on October 19, 1975. The gust 23, 1975 to Sandra (Rutz) '64 Targgart '69 and her husband, Dan, family lives in Indianapolis. and her husband, Carl. They have two of Churubusco, IN. The Targgarts Morwick, Gregory Kenneth, born on other children, Chris 6, and Debbie have a three-year-old son, Timothy. July 9, 1975 to Kenneth L. Morwick 495. The family lives in Indianapolis. Thompson, David John, and Mark '71 and his wife, Tina (Pickard) '72. Self, Michelle Jean, born on July 4 Alan, twins born on October 19, 1975 Kenneth is an accountant for Burger 1975 to Donna (Steffen) '67 and Mi- to Dr. Larry G. Thompson '63 and his Chef. Tina is a research chemist with chael Self. Donna works as an RN wife, Janet. The family lives in South 28 Births (continued) Bend, IN, where Dr. Thompson is an anesthesiologist at Memorial Hospital. Young, Emily Marie, born on Novem- ber 30, 1975 to Connie (Yoder) I Young '69 and her husband, Robert. Before the birth of her daughter, Con- nie was teaching at Franklin Central H.S. in Indianapolis. The family lives in Indiana's capital city.

Three Indiana Central alumni were honored in March by the Indiana High School Athletic Association for leading their teams to state championships. PLEASELET Dave Green '64 (left) represented his brother, Bill '56, who led his Marion High School basketballers to the 1975 title. Bill returned in the '76 tourney Us KNOW to cop his second straight title for Marion, the first coach to win back-to-back IF You basketball crowns since another ICU grad, Ray Crowe '39, led Crispus Attucks MOVE. in 1955 and 1956. Tom Hathaway '54, coached the Southport High School cross country team to the 1975 championship, while John Hurrle '55, led his Indianapolis Tech wrestlers to the state mat title. Hathaway and Hurrle also received 20-year coaching plaques from the Association during the festivities. Kecentrr ICU Alumni Marriages 1st. Lt. Richard Allen USMC '72 and Kay Kirkpatrick '75 and Dale Web- coach in the South Madison (IN) former ICU student Celeste Stickan ster '76 were married on February 28, Community School System. The wed- were married in Indianapolis in De- 1976 at Wabash, IN. Kay is an RN ding took place on May 29. cember. Celeste is a former Perry working at the St. Elizabeth Hospital Township school teacher. Richard is a in Lafayette, IN. Dale is a salesman Debra S. Wyant '74 married Indiana pilot with the Marine Corps. At the for the Mason Realty Co. The couple Central student Brian L. Sinders in time of their marriage the couple now lives in West Lafayete, IN. April. Debra works as a registered moved to Oceanside, CA, where Rich- nurse in Indianapolis at Community Former students Wayne T. Posz '69 ard was awaiting orders for transfer to Hospital. and Mary Margaret Ensminger were Okinowa. married in April. They are now liv- Nancy L. Zuidema '75 and Gary Sandra J. Bowser '73 and Stephen ing in Shelbyville, IN, where Wayne Martin were married in Ocean Grove, Huffman of the USAF were married is news director for radio station NJ, in March. The couple is now on November 15, 1975. The couple is WSVL. Mary Margaret is a secretary living in Indianapolis where Nancy with a local firm. works as an RN at University Hos- 1 living in Dayton, OH, where Sandra pital Medical Center and where Gary is working as an RN in gynecology at Larry R. Schneider '71 and Deborah works as an accountant. Grandview Hospital. Sears were married on December 27, 1975 at Mooresville, IN, where they William S. Davis '75 and LaFon A. Karen J. Green '74 and Thomas E. are now living. Both Larry and Deb- Neal were married on October 4, 1975 Linson were married on April 10 in orah work for the Mooresville Con- in Indianapolis. William works for Southport, IN. Karen is the daughter solidated Schools. Merchants National Bank and is of ICU staff member Hilda Green. working on his Master's degree at In- Larry A. Stoner '69 recently married Karen is a secretary for the Ameri- diana Central. His new bride is em- Sylvia Gleen Kramer of Speed (IN). can Legion. She and her husband live ployed at an Indianapolis law firm. Larry currently works as a teacher and in Indianapolis. Vote For All-Time Greyhound Gridiron Squad

by James L. Brunnemer '66

Indiana Central University has a long and storied Any effort at comparison of athletes from different record of athletic achievement in its 74-year history. With eras inevitably initiates disagreement about styles of play America's Bicentennial celebration magnifying notable and competition, and differences in size, strength, speed, events and individuals in our country's past, I thought and skill of individuals. Nonetheless, I'll fearlessly plunge it would be fun to look back over the years and select headlong into a potential cauldron of controversy by of- Indiana Central's all-time all-stars in various sports. fering my version of ICUs all-time football squad.

BRUNNEMERS ALL-TIME INDIANA CENTRAL FOOTBALL SQUAD OFFENSE DEFENSE Tight end - Otto Albright '26 End - Pat Koers '64 Tackle - Vance Stratton '76 Tackle - Dave Vance '30 Guard - Jerry England '6 1 Middle Guard - Randy Robertson '75 Center - Abie Carter '54 Tackle - John Hurrle '55 Guard - Dave Winings '76 End - Terry Busching '74 Tackle - Stan Klos '50 (Deceased) Linebacker --Oscar Gardner '74 Wide Receiver - Dick Nyers '56 Linebacker --Bill Bless '63 Quarterback - Dick Schrier '56 Linebacker - John Egenolf '70 Halfback - Oscar Smith '30 Halfback - Vasco Walton '66 Halfback (Tie) - Jim Ware '63 Halfback - Dave Wood '76 - Dave Scheib '65 Safety - Dean Ransburg '54 Fullback - Bob Vuillemot '61

I've listed both an offensive and defensive squad and Select your own favorite offensive and defensive squads have ruled ineligible any players still actively playing for and send them to me before September 1. We'll honor the university. Central began gridiron play in 1924 and the twenty-two players chosen by our alumni during continued through the 1931 season. From 1932-1946 the half-time ceremonies at a home football game to be Greyhounds did not field a squad, finally reinstituting foot- announced later. ball in 1947. Obviously, my knowledge of Greyhound football prior Also, list in the blank below what you consider to to the early sixties is second-hand, since I saw my first be the most exciting Indiana Central football game you IC football clash as a student here in 1963. You most ever saw, writing in the opponent, the date, and the score. assuredly will beg to differ with my team, so please help My choice for most exciting? No question about it: the me select the squad. Below are some of the great names 1973 IC-Franklin contest when the 'Hounds of coach Bill in ICU football lore, listed as nominees for the various Bless came from three touchdowns behind to win, 34-32, positions which each played. There are most probably when tackle Randy Gunyon stole a Grizzly fumble in mid- other candidates whom we've failed to list. Write those air and raced 35 yards for a touchdown with just over names in the appropriate blank if they are not included. a minute to play. 30 OPPENSZVE TEAM DEPENSIVE TEAM Tight end (select one) Guard (select two) End (select two) Middle Guard (select one) - Otto Albright '26 - Bill Coffee '74 - Otto Albright '26 - Jerry England '61 I - Dick Chew '75 - Bob Dellinger '65 - Terry Busching '74 - John Hurrle '55 I - Gil Fey '58 - Alfred "Doc" Emmert '28 - Verne Chandler '51 - Charley Leader '25 - Joe Koenig '73 (Deceased) - Pat Koea '64 - Dale Robinson '52 - Pat Koers '64 - Jerq England '61 - Doug Semenick '73 - Randy Robertson '75 - Bob McBride '48 - George Friel '66 - (Other) (Other) - Bill McGrath '50 - Walt Lyons '63 I - Bob Otolski '60 - Dale Robinson '52 Tackle (select two) Halfback (select two) I (Other) - Dale Winings '76 - Herschel Adams '27 - Marion Burleson '53 - (Other) - Dan Dolniak '59 - John Dean '69 - Davy Ivory '75 - D. J. Hines '73 Wide Receiver (select one) Center (select one) - John Koontz '64 - Larry Keene '65 - Pete Bullard '65 - Abie Carter '54 - Harold Smith '32 - Dick Nyers '56 I - Mike Eads '74 - Lee Dilk '61 - Arnold Spilly '53 - Bruce Quinn '67 - Gary Hall '75 - Rick Gardner '76 - Bill Stevens '59 - Dick Schrier '56 I - Charley Jordan '70 - Ted Hermann '56 - Steve Stroeh '68 - Vasco Walton '66 I - Dick Nyers '56 - Stan Klos '50 (Deceased) - Dave Vance '30 - Dave Wood '76 - Dave Weber '65 --- t - Dave Scheib '65 - Herb Lepper '66 - (Other) b - Vasco Walton '66 - Harold Schutz '50 (Other) (Other) - Boyd Todd '26 I - Linebacker (select three) Safe (select one) (Other) - Bill Bless '63 - Dick Burrows '63 I Tackle (select two) Quarterback (select one) - Ken Brooks '76 - Willie Martin '62 f - Bill Bless '63 - Bill Fredenberger '48 - Abie Carter '54 - Dean Ransburg '54 I - Stew DeVane '70 (Deceased) - John Egenolf '70 - John Sims '75 I - Henry Easter '61 - Harry Good '25 - Dick Elmore '66 - Bill Tutterow '69 I - Oscar Gardner '74 - Steve Wheatley '75 I - Greg Hill '74 - Earl Lemme '29 - Joe Hurrle '53 (DK€.a.Sed) - Stan Markle '75 (Other) - Tohn Hurrle '55 - Charlw Miller '65 - Bruce Ruster '70 - stan Klos '50 (Deceased) - Dan Nicoson '68 - (Other) - Harold Markle '62 - Rod Pawlik '76 Specialists (select one of each) - Ivan Moreman '50 - Carol Purichia '61 Punters I - Harold Smith '32 - Dick Schrier '56 - Ken Brooks '76 - Vance Stratton '76 - Dave Verhonik '72 - Chuck Dill '50 - Dave Vance '30 - Bob Wood '56 - Ken Graves '64 (Other) - (Other) - John Mitny '74 (Other) Halfback (select two) Fullback (select one) - - Dave Barton '64 - Chuck Dill '50 Placekicker 1 - Bill Breneman '30 - Art Hammond '65 - Ed Maciejewski '58 - Don Bunge '48 - Steve Montgomery '76 - John Mitny '74 - Marion Burleson '53 - Tom Patterson '66 - Dick Nyers '56 I - Bill Clark '50 - Jack Schuck '68 - Tim Rickerd '76 i - Billy Crowe '62 - Rick Sidebottom '74 (Other) 1 George Fallowfield '59 - Bob Vuillemot '61 Kick Returner I - - Dick Nyers '56 - (Other) - Bill Breneman '30 I - Jim Nyers '61 - Pete Bullard '65 i - Dave Scheib '65 - Dick Nyers '56 I - Dave Shaw '52 - Jim Nyers '61 - Dave Smith '67 - Oscar Smith '30 I - Oscar Smith '30 - Bill Tutterow '69 - Jim Ware '63 - Jim Ware '63 I (Other) - (Other) t

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