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FALL 2000 VOLUME VI NO. 1
The New Allyn Hall Moving Into the 21st Century F ROM THE P RESIDENT’ S D ESK
Fall 2000 VOLUME VI NO. 1
Managing Editor Denise Thomas-Hoskins, Associate Director of Publications, Office of Communications and Marketing Editor Connie Steele, Office of Communications and Marketing Photo Editor Stephanie James Ely, Office of Communications and Marketing Design Theresa Almond, Office of Communications and Marketing Photography Roberta Bowers, Chris Snyder, Center for Teaching and Learning; Stephanie James Ely, Office of Communications and GREETINGS, Marketing The stories in this issue of Community include examples of how AlumNotes Holly Blakely, Jamie Verdier, Office of Wright State is preparing graduates to succeed in the world in which Communications and Marketing they live and work. Contributing Writers This fall, state officials joined local business leaders and the campus John Bennett, Stephanie James Ely, Judi community in the renaming of the business college to the Raj Soin Engle, Donna Hamilton, Bob Noss, Connie Steele, Denise Thomas-Hoskins, College of Business. Having a businessman of Raj Soin’s international Michele Wheatly stature linked to our programs demonstrates how public-private Cover partnerships can contribute to the economic success of the region and Photography by Roberta Bowers, beyond. Chris Snyder Preparing teachers to help their students succeed in an increasingly Community is published two times a complex and technological world was the driving force for a complete year by the Office of Communications revamping of Allyn Hall, the new home of the College of Education and Marketing, Division of University Advancement, with the support of the and Human Services. WSU Alumni Association. Distribution Keeping the world’s information super highway secure prompted is to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university. Submit the creation of a course on Internet security, one of a few offered in the information, comments, and letters to nation. Community editor, Office of Communi- Finally, the CLASS project helps teachers learn how to create cations and Marketing, Wright State University, Dayton OH 45435-0001 or learning environments that enable all students to realize their potential. e-mail [email protected] One of the first rules of learning is summed up in the words of Alexander Dumas: “Nothing succeeds like success.” I invite you to On the cover: read through these pages and see how Wright State’s innovative Redesigned entrance to Allyn Hall programs of excellence are building on success of students, faculty, features a video message station and hallway leading to the new campus and graduates to make a better world for all of us. eatery, The Hangar.
277015/200007-1865/NO00/JU00/60M President, Wright State University INSIDE
COVER STORY
6ALLYN HALL—WIRED FOR LEARNING The oldest building on campus is now the newest in terms of supporting teaching and learning for the 21st century.
FEATURES
10 A NEW ERA IN BUSINESS EDUCATION In September, dignitaries from around the state joined the campus community in celebrating a college renaming ceremony: the Raj Soin College of Business.
13 FOILING THE HACK ATTACK Wright State offers one of the few courses in the nation on internet security.
14 UP CLOSE AND ACCESSIBLE Teachers from around the country came to WSU campus to learn how to make science labs accessible for students with disabilities.
16 NUTTER CENTER TURNS 10 For ten years, the Nutter Center has been hosting shows for all tastes and interests, becoming the second-highest grossing facility for its capacity in the U.S. and fourth-highest in the world.
18 UNLOCKING SECRETS OF GULF WAR SYNDROME WSU scientists across disciplines joined forces to win a competitive $7.2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to study Gulf War Syndrome.
DEPARTMENTS
2UNIVERSITY NEWS
19 DEVELOPMENT NEWS
20 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS
24 ALUMNI FEATURE Karla Garrett Harshaw
26 ALUMNOTES
30 ATHLETICS U NIVERSITY N EWS ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Libraries Receive International Research for Historical Gift Spinal Cord Injury A recent donation from Lorenz & Wright State Williams, Inc., a Dayton architec- researchers join a tural firm, to the Wright State Univer- handful of select sity Libraries’ Special Collections and international teams Archives will allow visitors to relive to investigate spinal memories of Rike’s, the famed cord injury in a new Dayton store, for generations to come. grant program from The donation includes floor plans, the National Institute Robert E. W. Fyffe ○○○ structural prints, and architectural of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. “New U” Web Site drawings from both the main store Robert E. W. Fyffe, Ph.D., director of ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ WSU’s Web site has had a facelift. and subsequent building addition. The the new Center for Brain Research The whimsical “U,” the photos and the materials are from the years 1950–81. and professor of anatomy, will be the bright colors provide excitement, while The Rike’s Historical Collection principal investigator for the $1.46 the integration of WSU green and gold may be viewed in the Special Collec- million grant. The five-year grant is a and biplane logo maintains tradition. tions and Archives on the fourth floor collaboration between WSU School
The concept conveys the internal of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ of Medicine and Queen’s University, growth and change that a person Hours are Monday through Friday Kingston, Ontario, Canada. encounters heading off to college, as from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. “Traumatic spinal cord injury well as the relative newness of WSU. affects approximately 250,000 The following new features have Guardian Wins Award Americans,” explains Fyffe. “Until been added to the site: we know what is happening at the The Associated Collegiate Press ■ Raider Online Express features cellular level, we will not be able to (ACP) has awarded The Guardian, online grade access for students target appropriate treatments.” (rox.wright.edu); Wright State’s weekly student news- paper, its “All-American” rating. In six ■ Virtual Tour of the university Small Business of the last eight years, The Guardian through panoramic images Development Seminars (www.wright.edu.edu/vr/); has earned this rating, the top critique award in the ACP’s national review. The Small Business Development ■ Parents site (www.wright.edu/ Center is again offering information parents/); The rating includes Marks of sessions for those looking to start a ■ Experts Guide—for use by area Distinction for new business or grow an existing one. media (www.wright.edu/cgibin/ These seminars acquaint existing and expertlist.cgi). coverage and content, prospective business owners with ■ A redesigned athletics site information on the resources, require- www.wsuraiders.com writing and editing, ments, and assistance available for Parents’ Weekend photography, art starting a small business. Areas of assistance include financing and The fourth annual Parents’ Weekend and graphics, accounting, marketing, sales and will be held January 26–28. and layout and advertising, operations management, Parents are invited to meet campus design. business law, human resource man- faculty and staff, win prizes at Monte agement, and international trade Carlo Night, cheer on the Raiders from counseling. Sessions are available on reserved seats, and meet President and the first Thursday of every month from Mrs. Goldenberg at Sunday brunch. 9 to 11 a.m. For more information, For more information, contact the contact the SBDC at (937) 775-3503. Office of Student Life at (937) 775-5570.
2 Community FALL 2000 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ New Degree Offered First WSU Physics Wright State University’s new Chair Dies Bachelor of Science degree in Harvey M. Hanson, Ph.D., founding organizational leadership is designed chair of the physics department, for students with a two-year degree or passed away in June of 2000. its equivalent who want to prepare for Hanson first came supervisory and management careers. to Wright State in the The degree was established last year summer of 1965. “He at the Lake Campus and begins at the was responsible for main campus in January 2001. the development of For more information, contact the physics depart- Scott Graham, program advisor at the ment,” said Gust International Trade main campus, at (937) 775-4473. Bambakidis, Ph.D., Harvey M. Hanson Assistance Center current department chair. “He T recruited most of the faculty mem- he Ohio Department of Develop- Campus Housing bers in the department.” ment (ODOD) has named WSU’s Raj Expands Hanson sponsored the develop- Soin College of Business an Interna- tional Trade Assistance Center, one of ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ment of the Master of Science degree ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Demand for on-campus housing has nine in the state of Ohio. The Small increased more than 20 percent since in physics and Master of Science in physics teaching. He also developed Business Development Center, in last year. This fall, two new buildings partnership with the Dayton Area in Campus Park Apartments created and implemented computer-assisted instruction courses in physics. Chamber of Commerce, will continue space for 120 more students. Ap- to provide assistance to small- and proximately 2,600 students now live medium-sized businesses through in campus housing. Research shows ODOD with funding from the U.S. students living on campus earn better Professors Receive Education Award Small Business Administration. grades and graduate at higher rates The funding and designation will than commuting students. Ann C. Wendt, Ph.D., SPHR, and complement existing services offered William M. Slonaker, J.D., SPHR, by WSU’s Small Business Develop- associate professors of management in ment Center and formalize the the Raj Soin College of Business, services offered by G-Trade through received the annual Commissioners’ the Department of Development. Award in Education from the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. The award Accountancy Posts recognizes individuals or organiza- tions for their work in removing the National Win root causes of discrimination. For the third time, a team of WSU Wendt and Slonaker’s ongoing accountancy students has won the longitudinal research project, The National Student Case Competition Ohio Employment Discrimination sponsored by the Institute of Manage- Studies, is a database containing over ment Accountants. Wright State has 5,500 employment discrimination the record for the most wins at the cases randomly drawn from the files of national competition where teams the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. It must find solutions to cases based on is the only database in the nation a real-world situation. containing detailed information on employment discrimination claims. Move-In Day, September 10, 2000
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AROUND CAMPUS Wright State Wins Fulbright Award WSU is one of 22 universities nationwide to receive a grant from a
Doin’ the Rowdy Raider Rap A ▼ number of students participated in new Fulbright Scholar grants pro- the Student Alumni Association’s gram. Wright State and the University First Annual All Campus Scavenger of Concepcion in Chile will develop Hunt during Welcome Week 2000. These spirited students earned the Exchange Program for Leverag- grand prizes by rapping their own ing Organization Resources in version of the WSU Alma Mater. Education, or Project EXPLORE. The program will allow overseas
National Domestic Violence Month was ▼ study by students from both universi- observed on campus with the Clothesline ties. For Project EXPLORE, Wright Project and the Silent Witness Initiative. Amy Sues, associate director of Student Life, State will investigate the feasibility of looks at a piece in the display with student a new M.B.A. concentration in Latin Precious Carter, who made the shirt in memory of a friend. American business studies. The university plans to begin the student Shelley Goldenberg (seated) worked as a exchange in the fall of 2002. volunteer in the Pre-College Discovery Program this past summer.▼ “The University of Concepcion anticipates sending five to 10 students per year who would take classes in
○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ English in our graduate-level produc- tion and operations management courses,” says Robert F. Scherer, professor of management and associate dean for community relations in the Raj Soin College of Business and the academic director for Project EXPLORE. Wind Symphony Tours Japan On June 13, the Wright State Univer- sity Wind Symphony traveled to Matsusaka, Japan, for a 10-day cultural exchange program experi- enced through the universal language of music. The group was hosted by “O, Write My Name: American
▼ Portraits—Harlem Heroes,‘’ a the International Friendship Associa- national tour of photogravures tion (MIFA), a civic organization of depicting the artistic and literary community and business leaders who talents of the Harlem Renaissance, was on display in the Student Union promote artistic exchanges in the Art Gallery this fall as part of the Matsusaka area. This was the Wind Bolinga Center’s 30th Anniversary. Symphony’s first international trip, according to David Booth, wind symphony conductor and assistant professor of music.
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The following faculty and staff members were recognized for exemplary service by Book Notes President Kim Goldenberg at special ceremonies marking the beginning of the academic year. Recent Books by WSU Faculty Jeanne Ballantine, the 8th edition of Presidential Awards for Faculty Excellence Sociological Footprints and a corresponding instructor’s manual Marlese Durr, New Politics of Race: From DuBois to the 21st Century and Study Tools for Understanding a Diverse Society Leo Finkelstein Jr., The Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists David Garrison, translated Pedro Salinas’ G. Allen Burton Jr. Leland Bland Richard Page Frank Nagy book Certain Chance Environmental Science Music Psychology Anatomy/Surgery Ron Geibert, Women in Documentary, Brage Golding Faculty Excellence Faculty Excellence in Faculty Excellence in Photography 2000 Distinguished in Research Teaching Professional Service Professor of Research William Irvine, Perfect Parents: Reflections on the Decline of Childhood and the Obligations of Parenthood Marshall Kapp, edited Consumer-Directed Care to the Older Person, which was published as the sixth volume of Ethics, Law, and Aging Review Jerald Kay, E. K. Silberman, and L. Pessar, Handbook of Psychiatric Education and Faculty Development Jerald Kay and A. Tasman, Psychiatry: Michele G. Wheatly Kay Wick Jane Doorley Robert V. Riordan Biological Sciences Marketing Nursing Anthropology Behavioral Science and Clinical Outstanding Faculty Faculty Award for Faculty Award for University Professor Essentials Member Excellence Instructor Excellence: Lecturer William Klykylo, Jerald Kay, and David Rube, Clinical Child Psychiatry Martin Maner, the second edition of The Presidential Awards for Staff Excellence Research Process: A Complete Guide and Reference for Writers Jim McCutcheon, 16 Easy Recital Pieces for Guitars ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Gary Pacernick, Summer Psalms Chandler A. Phillips, Human Factors Engineering Mary Beth Pringle, John Grisham: A Critical Companion, which was republished in Critical Companions to Katie Deedrick Cherri Thompson Lisa May Cathy Yost Popular Literature Student Life Nursing & Health Financial Services Bursar’s Office Anne S. Runyan, Gender and Global Human Relations, Human Relations, Innovation, Innovation, Classified Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Unclassified Classified Unclassified Resistances Martha Sammons, A Far-Off Country: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’ Fantasy Fiction Lake Campus Mark R. Sirkin, the second edition of Outstanding Unit Statistics for the Social Sciences Offices of Professional Field Placement, Leon VandeCreek and T. Jackson, Student Services, and Graduate Studies Innovations in Clinical Practice: A within the College of Education and SourceBook Human Services James Walker and Michael Solimine, Outstanding Collaborative Units Respecting State Courts: the Inevitability Marsha Jones Eugene Hern of Judicial Federalism Student Health Research &Spon- Service Classified sored Programs For more information, please e-mail denise.thomas- Service, Unclassified [email protected].
Community FALL 2000 5 Wright State’s Oldest Building Is Now Its Newest Allyn Hall— WiredWired forfor LearningLearning
By Connie Steele
hen Billie Harris (73 B.S.Ed) of facilities and instructional Wwas a brand new teacher, the technology. only technological skill required “The students of today are more was the ability to operate a 16 mm visual, more oriented to being projector, a record player, and a entertained,” she says. “You have mimeograph machine. to practically do a song and dance “You could always tell the to get their attention.” Indeed, teachers—they were the ones with studies show that the average the purple fingers,” she says, American child watches 1500 referring to the fluid used to crank hours of television a year, and one out the dittoed handouts and tests. in three comes from a home that Today, Harris works with has a personal computer. teachers in Fairborn Schools to Closed in June 1999, the improve classroom instruction. building’s interior was completely This includes helping them find gutted and remodeled, opening for ways to incorporate the latest classes this fall. instructional technology into their “It’s basically a building that classrooms—which can include has the flexibility to stay ahead of everything from computers, laser the needs of the users, to enable disks, camcorders, and LCD both students and faculty to make projectors to a television produc- use of current and emerging tion studio. technology,” says Bonnie Mathies, Meeting the challenge of prepar- Ph.D., associate dean, who over- ing teachers for the classrooms of saw the $10 million renovation. today and tomorrow drove the Besides including two tradi- design and complete renovation of tional computer labs and “elec- Allyn Hall—the new home of the tronic” classrooms that use the College of Education and Human latest video, audio, and multimedia Services. The university’s oldest projection systems, Allyn Hall building is now its newest in terms designers tapped into one of the
6 Community FALL 2000 newest technologies appearing on campuses: the wireless classroom. “We loved the flexibility of wireless,” says Mathies. “Wireless can turn any classroom into a computer lab.” Fall quarter saw the second floor rigged for wireless comput- ing; plans call for the entire build- ing to be outfitted in the next year. Wireless classrooms are equipped with a transceiver installed in the ceiling that sends and receives signals from laptops distributed to students in the class. The system allows students to connect to campus networks and the Internet without being tethered by cables and wires. Such freedom of movement allows students to collaborate more easily on writing and research projects. “I think there is a lot of potential for using this technology that we haven’t discovered yet,” says Mathies. Mathies says that faculty input was solicited early on in the building’s design. “We told them that their imagi- nation was the only limitation.” Mathies found that in addition to the expected requests for the latest computer and electronic equip- ment, the majority of faculty also wanted a flexible space equipped with moveable tables and chairs rather than the standard row upon row of armed chairs. One classroom is even modeled after a school laboratory for science teaching methods courses.
Second-floor hallway features Internet access jacks
Community FALL 2000 7 While Harris is glad that today’s teachers no longer contend with purple fingers, she is concerned about preparing students to suc- ceed in a world where technology is changing the way teachers teach and students learn. “That’s why the changes in Allyn Hall are so important—not only do they provide an enhanced learning experience for students, they also provide a model for how to use it in their own classrooms. It’s about preparing students to succeed in the world in which they will live and work, now and in the future.” The public is invited to an Allyn Hall open house on January 18, from 4 to 7 p.m.
These students are using wireless laptops distributed in an education class in Allyn Hall. Wireless technology can turn any classroom into a computer lab.
8 Community FALL 2000 Teaching Behind the Glass Educational Resource Allyn Hall includes new facilities Center that support specialized instruction and training, such as this Reading Now located on the first floor, Recovery Class. Observed teach- the center provides materials and ing and learning are key elements equipment to support students in in this innovative program, which the College of Education and trains reading teachers to improve Human Services, as well as the reading skills of their first- community members in the grade students targeted with education field. reading problems. Wright State is The center consists of three one of only three universities in areas: Ohio designated as a Reading Instructional Materials Recovery training site. Center—provides an array of
▼ teaching aids and materials. Phoebe Ingraham, Reading Recovery Teacher/ Leader, supervises first-grade teachers observing These include items such as Maria Schreiber, a fellow classmate from Spring educational kits, games, video Hill Elementary School, as she works with one of tapes and laser disks; picture files; her reading students. The teachers are in training and textbooks. The center also to become certified Reading Recovery teachers. Students look over anatomical models that can be has adaptive computers and used in a health class. visual aids for individuals with physical and visual impairments. Media Production Lab—provides equipment and materials to create visual displays (such as colorful bulletin boards) as well as laminating and multimedia development. Materials are available at cost. Microcomputer Lab—serves primarily as an instructional lab; how- ever, during off hours it can be used as a software preview site for teachers who want to try out the newest educational software.
Allyn Hall: Fall 1964 ■ Home to Dayton campus of Miami and Ohio State Universities ■ Enrollment: 3,203 students ■ Number of degree programs: 5 ■ Total faculty: 53 ■ Number of campus buildings: 1 ■ Technology in the news: IBM word processor
Allyn Hall: Fall 2000 Allyn Hall, circa 1964 ■ Home to College of Education and Human Services ■ University enrollment: 15,398 ■ Number of degree programs: 100 undergraduate; 40 graduate and professional ■ Total university faculty: 715 ■ Number of campus buildings (including residential): 49 ■ Technology in the news: Wireless networked classrooms
Community FALL 2000 9 By John Bennett
State Dignitaries Join Campus Celebration Marking a New Era in Business Education The Raj Soin College of Business
From left: President Kim Goldenberg and Governor Bob Taft congratulate Raj Soin at ceremony dedicating college renaming in his honor.
t isn’t every day that Ohio’s governor and both Soin, president of MTC International, has been United States senators are in town for the same associated with Wright State for many years and event. September 11, 2000, was one of those rare currently serves on the university’s Board of Trust- occasions. Wright State President Kim ees. Soin’s multimillion-dollar donation to the col- IGoldenberg was joined on campus by Governor Bob lege and its renaming signal the beginning of a new Taft, Senators Mike DeWine and George Voinovich, era in business education at Wright State. area officials, and members of the campus community “It is a tribute to Wright State that a businessman at a special ceremony celebrating the renaming of the of Raj Soin’s international stature recognizes the College of Business and Administration as the Raj valuable resource our College of Business offers to Soin College of Business. the economic success of the region and the state,” This is the first time in Wright State’s history that a said Goldenberg. Linking the college to one of the college has been named in honor of an individual. It’s region’s most innovative entrepreneurs demonstrates also the first college in the United States to be named the college’s innovation, according to Rishi Kumar, after an Asian Indian. dean of the Raj Soin College of Business.
10 Community FALL 2000 “Successful business owners have a respon-
“It reflects the high regard and confidence that Mr. sibility to give back to Soin has in our faculty and our programs,” said the the community. Wright dean. “His contribution gives us another margin of excellence and inspires us to look forward and create State has a top-notch program. valued programs.” Kumar says that business educational needs have I am happy to be a part of helping gone through a major paradigm shift. It has evolved from “just in case” (offering a business degree in to prepare future business leaders to order to be hired), to “just in time” (equipping stu- dents with the skills needed to keep up with current respond to the fast changes occurring trends), to “just for you” (providing programs geared in the marketplace.” to specific business needs). Future initiatives of the Raj Soin College of Raj Soin, president, CEO Business include the establishment of a Professional of MTC International; Institute of Advanced Business Management. member, WSU Board of Trustees
CommunityCommunitySPRING/SUMMERFALL 2000 11 Focusing on new economy issues, the institute will “We always will strive to ensure that our students allow business professionals to earn credit for certifi- are fully prepared to meet the ever-changing and cate programs specifically designed for them that tremendously challenging issues of the business they could apply to an executive M.B.A. program. world,” said Kumar. “Raj Soin’s affirmation is doubly The college plans to begin certification programs rewarding, considering his keen insights and special in many fields, including health care management abilities to bring about success in this complex and e-commerce. environment.” A new executive M.B.A. program will be de- “The Raj Soin College of Business will help signed, separate from the current M.B.A. program, ensure a successful legacy for the Dayton region,” but one that Kumar hopes will have a positive added Soin. “It is my great pleasure to support spillover effect on both the current M.B.A. and Wright State in its effort to provide outstanding undergraduate programs. The college will retain its academic preparation.” focus on international programs; continue to provide the technology required by students and faculty; and create an infrastructure to attract and retain the best and brightest faculty.
Senator Mike Dewine introduces Raj and Indu Soin
12 Community FALL 2000 By John Bennett
One of Few Courses Prabhaker Mateti on Internet Security in the Nation Foiling the Hack Attack
s media reports of e-mail The responsibility of maintain- viruses get widespread ing a secure system rests with the A attention, curiosity about user, not the manufacturer. Mateti the causes of computer security says systems almost always have breaches and how to prevent them too many ways to be invaded. increases. Wright State’s Prabhaker “They deliver it with every door Mateti, associate professor of open,” Mateti explains. “Other- computer science and engineering, wise the customer thinks they has tapped into student interest by don’t work. They leave it open designing one of the few under- intending that the customer will graduate courses in the nation close the door.” devoted to Internet security. Some might think that a course The course dispels some mis- in Internet security invites or conceptions about attacks on encourages those with the wrong computer systems. For example, intentions. Mateti’s students sign “hackers,” and their colleagues the an ethics statement promising not “crackers” or “attackers,” don’t to misuse what they learn in the spend hour after hour devising course. Mateti considers legal new ways to break computer issues, social responsibility, and codes. According to Mateti, it’s ethics to be as important to the not that the techniques used to Illustration by Theresa Almond course as working in the computer attack computers are new, it’s that labs. With support from the De- the old techniques are not well A “cracker” is actively trying to partment of Computer Science and known. But because more people break a code to obtain a password Engineering and a two-year grant are using the Internet, the damage or an encrypted message. The from the National Science Founda- caused by an attack spreads more “attacker” is trying to get some- tion, “Internet Security” will not quickly and affects more users. thing he or she is not authorized to only benefit the Wright State “‘Hacking’ is a very old word.” have, such as financial information students who enroll, but provide a Mateti says it is used to mean or credit card records. learning model for use by universi- “experimenting for the purpose of “It’s some kind of psychological ties around the country. gaining knowledge.” Under this thrill,” Mateti says. “Often they Visit http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/ for information on the course topics and lecture notes. definition, hackers know what they don’t gain personally.” Also, the are looking for, but instead of attackers don’t believe they’ve (Stephanie James Ely contributed to this report) theorizing, they are experimenting caused any real damage or realize and building. they can be prosecuted.
Community FALL 2000 13 Photos by Mame Burns Dayton. Daily. News Special CLASS Puts Science Up Close and Accessible
or the past three Department of Biological Sciences summers, high and director of the project. school science Considered a national model, teachers from CLASS is part of a five-year around the country research project, funded by grants and students with totaling $835,000 from the National disabilitiesF have come together on Science Foundation. the Wright State campus to learn A collaboration between the from each other on how to make departments of Biological Sciences, science accessible for students of Teacher Education, and the Office all abilities. of Disability Services, CLASS won Creating Laboratory Access for the President’s Award for Outstand- Science Students (CLASS) shows ing Collaborative Unit in 1999. science educators how they can design lab activities to accommo- A special magnifier helps CLASS student Kartheek date students with disabilities. In Erukulla get a close look at a fossil turn, students learn that they too From left: Lab coordinator Marcie Wendeln, WSU senior Carrie Drake, and Ohio High Point Career Center teacher can fully participate in laboratory Surena Neer help Daniel Bartz use a special microscope for people with dexterity or vision impairments. science activities. The two-week session includes hands-on learning experiences that includes chemistry experi- ments, DNA isolation, examina- tion of various organisms, and field trips. “This past summer, the favor- ite exercises by far were “chemis- try in a bag” and a field trip to Caesar Creek State Park, where fossils were collected and re- turned to the laboratory for identification,” says Michele Wheatly, professor and chair,
14 Community FALL 2000 “Disability should be
viewed as another
form of diversity that
can be used to build
a sense of belonging ”
Michele Wheatly Professor of Biological Sciences CLASS director
“The highlight of this year’s CLASS workshop was the Third Annual CLASS Banquet attended by 100 members of the community and not coincidentally held on the 10th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” says Wheatly. Internationally recog- nized speaker Norman Kunc traveled to WSU from British Columbia to present the keynote address. Born with cerebral palsy, Kunc used humor and narrative to convince the audience that disabil- ity should be viewed as another California teacher Kristin Hudlow works on a fossil project with Cori Lea Caton. form of diversity that can be used to build a sense of belonging. “His take-home message is that projects The project developed a source natural and physical sciences and like CLASS go a long way towards book and adaptive laboratory developing workshops for elemen- ‘shrinking the disability’ so that manuals for educators. Wheatly tary educators. teachers learn to appreciate that the says future projects include creat- For more information on CLASS disability is only a small percentage ing training videos and broadening project visit http://biology.wright. of the total human being.” the curriculum to include other edu/labgrant/index.html.
Community FALL 2000 15 RED HOT Nutter Center By Denise Thomas-Hoskins
hat do the Red Hot It is also a Chili Peppers, Tina stopping point WTurner, and WSU for major tours Raider basketball have in common? including 10 YE The Nutter Center, of course! musicians from every The Ervin J. Nutter Center is 10 genre and world- years old this season. Every year it famous family shows. has been annually recognized for It is, as director John high grossing sales, becoming the Siehl calls it, “the most second highest grossing facility for visible place on campus.” its capacity in the U.S. and the And that is all part of his fourth highest in the world, accord- plan to use the Nutter Center as a ing to Amusement Business maga- “major recruiting tool” for Wright zine. State University. The Nutter Center is home to Since its grand opening in Wright State University Athletics, December of 1990, over six million Dayton Bombers Hockey, regional people have attended events in the and state high school volleyball and Nutter Center. Approximately basketball, and Miami Valley kids’ 500,000 of those people were under wrestling tournaments. the age of 18 attending high school related events.
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“Expo- events, and concerts to the Miami sure for the Valley, the Nutter Center provides university,” use of its facilities for university EARS says Siehl, “is events, and gives discounts on our number one designated shows and events for mission. We intention- faculty, staff, students, and alumni. ally host all kinds of On December 5, 10 years after events for children and the Boston Pops played at the teenagers. In many opening gala, Kenny Rogers will cases, coming to the present his holiday show to cel- Nutter Center is their ebrate the Nutter Center’s special very first campus visit.” anniversary. “We hope to see a lot Tina Turner made her first of faculty, staff, students, and campus visit in November. “We try alumni at the Kenny Rogers to provide the highest quality show,” says Jim Brown, associate entertainment, and the Tina Turner director of programming, sales, concert is a good example,” says and marketing. “We want it to be a Siehl. “The Nutter Center is the night to remember.” smallest venue she will play on her For more information about current tour.” upcoming events, check the Web In addition to offering shows, at www.nuttercenter.com or call 775-4789.
CommunityCommunitySPRING/SUMMERFALL 2000 17 Researchers Mariana Morris and Daniel Organisciak Researchers Join Forces to Unlock Secrets of
By Judi Engle Gulf War Syndrome
cientists across disciplines joined forces to win a known to accentuate many pathological conditions, competitive $7.2 milliion contract from the U.S. such as heart disease, immune dysfunction, and cancer,” SDepartment of Defense to study Gulf War explains Morris. “Gulf War syndrome may be another syndrome. More than 100,000 veterans of the Persian example.” Gulf War have reported experiencing symptoms, The team under the direction of Organisciak will including chronic fatigue, muscle and joint pain, examine animal and human tissue samples for genetic memory loss, and sleep disorders. Despite numerous and biochemical changes caused by repeated or low research studies conducted since the war’s end in levels of exposure to chemicals. “Previous studies have 1991, the syndrome’s cause remains unknown. documented the toxicity of high doses of the chemicals Mariana Morris, Ph.D., professor and chair of pharma- used in the Gulf War, but we don’t know the effects of cology and toxicology, and Daniel Organisciak, Ph.D., lower levels of exposure at the molecular and cellular professor and chair of biochemistry and molecular levels,” says Organisciak. Using the latest technology, biology, will lead a large team of researchers, from the they will also try to determine if there is a genetic basis cellular toxicologist to the clinical scientist, in the three- to chemical sensitivity. The new gene array system, one year project. The melding of disciplines increases the of only a handful in the state, can analyze hundreds of likelihood of success and influenced the decision to genes and changes in their expressions simultaneously. award the contract to Wright State. The team also “This project,” says Howard M. Part, M.D., dean of includes faculty from the Department of Emergency the School of Medicine, “reaffirms the high quality of Medicine and the Division of Human Biology in the our scientists’ approach and allows us to address medi- Department of Community Health. cal problems faced by many in our community.” Morris and her team will focus on how stressful The project received the strong support of Congress- conditions modify the way animals and people re- man Dave Hobson and Mary Petticrew, a local philan- spond to chemical treatments. Using animal models, thropist, who saw the need for this type of research and they will examine behavior, blood pressure, and the potential of linking Wright State into national structural and biochemical changes in the brain in a research programs through the Department of Defense. state-of-the-art brain imaging facility. “Stress is
18 Community FALL 2000 D EVELOPMENT N EWS ○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ $2 Million Endows Surgery Chair The WSU School of Medicine has received a $2 million gift from Elizabeth Berry Gray to endow a chair in the Department of Surgery. The Elizabeth Berry Gray Endowed Chair of Surgery enables the department to hire a basic science researcher who will assist residents with required clinical research projects as well as consult on patient cases. “I have been interested in the health care of our community for years,” says Gray. “I believe that this gift will benefit the entire Miami Valley.” James Peoples, M.D., current chair of surgery and the newly named Elizabeth Berry Gray Endowed Chair of Surgery, notes, “This generous gift from Mrs. Gray will enable us to jump-start our initiatives and will have a major impact on the future of both the department and the medical school.” “This endowment,” adds Howard Part, M.D., dean of the medical school, “is a legacy that will impact our community for years. It will allow us to recruit the highest caliber of teaching physicians and to expand the knowledge base of surgical health care.” West Wing star Martin Sheen was in Dayton on Saturday, September 23, 2000, to Elizabeth Berry Gray is the daughter of Loren M. attend a number of functions, including meeting the recipients of the Department of Berry, who founded the Yellow Pages and Dayton’s Theatre Arts Augsburger/Estevez Scholarship. The scholarship was established by The Berry Company more than 90 years ago. The Martin Sheen and Samantha Langevin in honor of their fathers, Francisco S. Estevez Berry Company is the largest independent Yellow and Milton Augsburger. Pages publisher and sales agency in the United States. Pictured left to right: Elizabeth Grunenwald, Brandon Bergem, Martin Sheen, Erin
Long, and Shaun Tubbs.
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Cantelupe Gallery Named ○○○ The Upper Gallery in the WSU Creative Arts Center has been SGI Donates Supercomputer named in honor of Eugene and Jean Cantelupe. The Eugene and ○○ The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has Jean Cantelupe Gallery was dedicated on October 12, 2000, at a received a gift to facilitate research funded by a grant from the reception honoring the Catelupes. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ National Science Foundation. SGI has donated a supercomputer Mary Ellen Mazey, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, says, Onyx2 and one 02 workstation. Professor Francis Quek will use the “The college is pleased and honored to name one of our Art supercomputer in his research work in human gesture, speech, and Galleries for the former dean of the college, Dr. Eugene Cantelupe. gaze. Quek’s research offers opportunities for advancement in the He was an integral part of building our strong academic programs understanding of psycholinguistics, anthropology, language and in the fine and performing arts, the humanities, and the social signal processing, as well as neuroscience. sciences.” Chodi McReynolds, director of marketing at SGI, says, “We Cantelupe was dean of the college from 1971 to 1983. Linda believe that our participation as an industry sponsor of visionary Caron, chair and associate professor of the Department of Art and work such as Dr. Quek’s is an important way to assist the scientific Art History, says, “The Art Department considers the Cantelupes community in groundbreaking projects that harness the power and part of the family, and we are honored that they have chosen to versatility of high-performance computing.”
help us.” ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Paradigm Geophysical Corporation Gift The Department of Geological Sciences is the recipient of a gift of software from the Paradigm Geophysical Corporation. The software package given is used by the oil and gas exploration industry for interpreting seismic images of the subsurface. Doyle Watts, Ph.D., of geological sciences says, “This gift enables us to train students in the latest cutting-edge methods of 3- D seismic data interpretation. We will continue to supply students to the hydrocarbon and mineral industries with knowledge of the
modern tools now used by explorationists.” ▼ From left: Dean Mary Ellen Mazey, Jean Cantelupe, Eugene Cantelupe, President Goldenberg, Shelley Goldenberg, Linda Caron.
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Putting It In for Scholarships
he 24th Annual Wright State University Alumni Association Legacy Scholarship Golf TOuting was again a success, raising over $6,000 for the Legacy Scholarship Program. Pipestone Golf Course in Miamisburg hosted the event for 108 golfers. Major sponsors were Liberty Mutual and the Raj Soin College of Business. Established by the WSU Alumni Association in 1990, the Legacy Scholarship Program has provided more than $110,000 in scholarships to the spouses, children, stepchildren, grandchildren, and legal dependents of current voting association members. For more information on the Legacy Scholarship Program, contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 775-2620. The following sponsors contributed to the success of the 2000 Golf Outing:
MAJOR SPONSORS Liberty Mutual Insurance Don Pablo’s Raj Soin College of Business Ervin J. Nutter Center The Mall at Fairfield Commons HOLE SPONSORS First Watch Advanced Records Management, Inc. Golf Galaxy BUSINESSLABS Heapy Engineering Dayton TRANE Hobart Brothers Ground Power Firstar Bank Holiday Inn I-675 Hobart Brothers Ground Power Hope Hotel & Conference Center KeyBank Jiffy Lube LJB engineers & architects Joker’s Comedy Club Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. KeyBank ○○○○○○ Miami Computer Supply LaComedia Dinner Theatre National City Mortgage Liberty Mutual Insurance Bell Tower Update Pickrel Brothers, Inc. LJB engineers & architects PricewaterhouseCoopers Longhorn Steakhouse Because of renovations to the campus entrance on Wright-Patt Credit Union, Inc. Max & Erma’s Wright State University College of MBNA Marketing Systems ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ University Boulevard, the bell tower, a part of campus Liberal Arts McManagement Group Wright State University Foundation Midwest Concierge since the university’s beginnings, has been tempo- Wright State University School of Medicine National City Bank Alumni Association Peerless Mill Inn rarily taken down. There are plans to rebuild the tower Red Lobster CART SPONSORS Shades of Jade in a new location, but where? Becker Electric Jerry & Maribeth Stump Students, faculty, and staff have Cosmetic Dentistry of Dayton Swartz Jewelry, Inc. Phillips Sand & Gravel Sign Dynamics been offering their input on where Price Stores Smiths Industries-Leland Shumsky Enterprises TGI Friday’s Total Team Sports the tower should be located, and Victoria Theatre Association alumni need their say! PRIZE SPONSORS Wallaby’s Ad Products of Dayton Wright State University College of Where do you think the bell Burbank’s Engineering and Computer Barnes & Noble Bookstore Science tower should be placed, on the at Wright State Wright State University-Miami Chapel Electric Company Valley College of Nursing and Quad or on the circle behind the Chi Chi’s Health Chili’s Wright State University Department Student Union? E-mail your suggestion to Choice Hotels International of Athletics Cold Beer & Cheeseburgers Wright State University Department [email protected] by Dec. 15. Visit our Alumni College Store of Theatre Arts Cooker Bar & Grill Wright State University Office of Association web site at www.wright.edu/alumni to see Cordonnier Marketing Alumni Relations Damon’s in Fairborn Wright State University Raj Soin photos of the proposed sites, for more information, Dayton Racquet Club College of Business and to see the results of the vote.
20 Community SFUMMERALL 2000 2000 Alumni, Soccer, Tent City Big Winners During Homecoming Howl & Prowl
Homecoming, held in ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ On Friday evening, alumni danced the night away the fall for the first to the sounds of Buck Naked. Saturday morning, time, was a runners hit the road for the 5K Road Race. Over 600 howling, prowl- people descended on Tent City Sunday morning for ing success! food, fun, and family festivities. The Alumni Associa- Hundreds of tion tent was a big draw as visitors could eat all they alumni, wanted for only $5. In a preview of that day’s soccer students and game, buffalo wings friends took were devoured prior to part in activi- ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ the Raiders devouring ties beginning the University of Friday after- Buffalo 3-0. noon, October 27, Fall Homecoming with the campus kick- was a huge success. off in the Student Union. Mark October 26, 2001, The fun continued through on your calendar now Sunday, October 29, with Tent City, the men’s soccer so you don’t miss any game, and the crowning of Homecoming King B. J. of the fun next fall! Homecoming King B. J. Missick
Missick and Queen Veronica Njodinizeh. and Queen Veronica Njodinizeh.
○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Alumni Day 2001 ○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Don’t miss Alumni Day, Saturday, February 17, Return the attached form by January 19, 2001, to 2001! Start the day by attending the 2nd annual reserve your place at the brunch and to receive your
Outstanding Alumni Awards Brunch. You’ll want to be ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ complimentary basketball tickets for this special day. there as Wright State University honors the significant achievements of an alumnus from each college and school, Name the Lake Campus, athletics, and the Bolinga Cultural Resources Center. Recipients are chosen on the basis of Address
achievement in their chosen career and the contributions City State Zip they have made in their communities. Brunch begins at 10 a.m. The cost is $5 for Alumni Telephone number Association members and faculty and $10 for all others. Alumni Brunch #attending Price Total Following the awards ceremony, stay and enjoy an Alumni Association members x $5.00 exciting basketball doubleheader featuring the men’s team Non-members x $10.00
as they take on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Number of basketball tickets requested ○○○○○○○○○○ noon and the women as they host Butler at 2 p.m. All alumni ○○○○○○○○○○○○ Method of payment: ❒ VISA ❒ MASTERCARD may request up to two complimentary basketball tickets Credit card number each and are invited to meet the award recipients between Expiration date Signature games in the Alumni Lounge on the Nutter Center con- ❒ CHECKS (make payable to Wright State University) course. Complimentary hors d’oeurvres and soft drinks Mail payment (if applicable) and form to: Wright State University, Office of
will be served. Cash bar available. Alumni Relations, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, Ohio 45435
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Story and photo By Stephanie James Ely Making Headlines Karla Garrett Harshaw has always known she wanted to be a journalist. As a youngster she wrote stories longhand and sent them off to national magazines. Undaunted by rejection slips, she was writing a column for a minority community newspaper, the Dayton Express, at age 13. When the Dayton Daily News called Jefferson High School during Harshaw’s sopho- more year looking for talented students to include in summer programs, the school administrators responded, “Oh, we’ve got Lois Lane here.” Harshaw was selected and was put to work in the reference library. But she wanted more. “I spent all summer wooing the editors in the newsroom, she says, “telling them ‘I’m already a writer, I’m already a pro—I should be working for you.’” Convincing them to use her as a freelance writer after the program ended, Harshaw began cover- ing township and school board meetings and taking weekend assignments. She also wrote a column for teens. Often she ran into the newsroom to deliver copy to the city editor still dressed in her cheerleader’s uniform. Her Parents Needn’t Have Worried Despite the reservations raised by her parents about whether journalism was a promising career for an African American female, she continued to write for the newspaper when she en- rolled at Wright State. But the questions
Karla Garret Harshaw was elected treasurer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in October. She will become the society’s president in 2004.
24 Community FALL 2000 they raised—Would doors to “Despite some by representatives of Cox newspa- advancement be opened to her? pers in cities like Atlanta, Austin, people’s stereotype Could their only child earn a living and Palm Beach. “Although some in journalism to support herself of the hard-core jour- locations may offer less dazzle after they were gone? How would than others, they may have more she survive in the male-dominated nalist out to get every- opportunities to offer a new world of newspapers in which few body, I still believe that writer,” she says. minorities were employed at that Offering an accessible forum to time?—steered her towards a most people come into all of her newspapers’ readers is degree in education. After all, her also important to Harshaw, and this business feeling mother would tell her, “Mark having diversity on the newspaper Twain died a pauper.” that they can make a staff is one way she accomplishes As a student teacher, Harshaw that. The founder of the Dayton had her class of middle-schoolers difference.” Association for Black Journalists, create their own newspaper. But Harshaw was inducted in the being a teacher in front of a class- National Association of Black room never enthralled her as much Journalist’s Region VI Hall of as being a reporter in a newsroom months after the birth of her Fame in 1997. had. second son (she has three). In the Being a person of color was not, Wright State “allowed me to following years, she implemented she says, as much an issue for her coordinate my class schedule so a redesign of the newspaper and in her career with Cox as shaking that I could get a degree while I directed a newsroom reorganization. the image people had of her as “the was trying to develop a career,” This spring, Cox executives kid in the newsroom” at a time she says. She went to work full- again demonstrated their belief in when Lou Grant’s character time as a Dayton Daily News Harshaw, naming her senior editor personified the newsroom image. reporter in 1977, while finishing for Cox Community Newspapers “I had to get a sense of how to her bachelor’s degree in education. and giving her responsibility for promote myself so that my col- After seven years covering a 13 smaller-circulation newspapers leagues would see me as a variety of beats, including health in North Carolina, Texas, Florida, bonafide professional. and social services, minority Colorado, and Ohio. Her parents “Despite some people’s stereo- affairs, education, and religion, needn’t have worried. type of the hard-core journalist out Harshaw was appointed assistant A Bonafide Professional to get everybody, I still believe city editor. She later served as Unlike the days when Harshaw that most people come into this assistant, then executive features first cajoled editors to give her a business feeling that they can editor before being appointed byline, opportunities for young make a difference. They want to assistant business manager in 1987. reporters are plentiful today and help right wrongs and give voice In 1990, Cox Enterprises, Inc., newspapers compete for talent. to the voiceless. That’s me, too,” which owns both the Dayton Daily Recruitment is a high priority for says Harshaw. “I would like to News and Springfield News-Sun, Harshaw in her new position. think that what we do here makes named her editor of the Springfield Attending national job fairs held a difference in the community. daily. She took the reigns and by Cox, Harshaw sometimes An enlightened world is a better wrote her first column introducing watches in frustration as newcom- world for a lot of different reasons.” herself to the community just four ers to the field vie to be recognized
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CLASS OF 1969 rently, he is the vice president of A Cop With a Special Wish Riviana Foods in Houston, Texas. Hon. V. Michael e’s been a street officer, a hostage negotiator, Brigner (B.A.) is Shirley Roberts (B.A.) volunteers as the new Adminis- and a morals squad detective—jobs that a member of the Dayton SkyWarn trative Judge of would seem to require a hardening of the sectional team. Her position involves H the preliminary check-in of SkyWarn Montgomery emotions. Yet, when he talks about helping to grant County Domestic representatives in each county while Relations Court. a dying teen’s special wish, he looks away, his eyes network control operators are en His court, which becoming noticeably moist. route to the communication com- was recognized for mand center. This year she attended having one of the most efficient “I’m just a cop Montgomery County’s SkyWarn dockets in the nation, is responsible who meant well,” Spotter training classes. Roberts also has her FCC license and serves for all divorce cases in the county, as says Dave Lantz, well as all domestic violence civil several regional organizations. protection order cases. Brigner was (86 B.A.) when he also named to a team of national started the Dayton CLASS OF 1975 experts who taught judges from chapter of Special across the United States about do- Representative J. Donald Mottley mestic violence prevention during a Wish Foundation (B.A.; 76 M.S.) will be leaving the week-long symposium that took in 1983. “I had Statehouse this December after place in June. fulfilling an eight-year term limit. no experience in Mottley plans to become a full-time CLASS OF 1971 running an organ- lawyer in Cincinnati upon his depar- ization, no idea what ture. Mottley has also served on the Douglas G. Boyd (B.S.Ed.) was re- West Carrolton Board of Education, cently awarded the 2000 Junior I was getting into. I as a top aide to Montgomery County Achievement International Global guess the desire was Auditor Dana Stamps, and to Chuck Horn when Horn was county com- Leadership Award. Boyd was one of enough to get us Dave Lantz only 14 individuals from the United missioner. States chosen to receive the award through those first years.” for contributing to the global growth During that first year, he and his wife, Linda, CLASS OF 1976 of Junior Achievement and free en- held meetings at their home, putting in countless terprise. He was recognized for trav- Timothy “Rick” eling to Macedonia in 1998 to train hours to raise funds and community awareness Hoffman (B.S.N.) over 130 teachers and Peace Corps about the organization. Today, the chapter has was elected 2000- volunteers to implement the Junior 01 treasurer of the Achievement program in their educa- grown to be the largest Special Wish chapter in the American Associa- tional systems. Boyd is currently the nation, granting about one wish a week for children tion of Nurse president of Junior Achievement at diagnosed with a life threatening condition. Anesthetists Middletown Area Incorporated. (AANA). The Lantz’s connection to Wright State comes from AANA is the pro- CLASS OF 1972 more than a degree in criminal justice. For example, fessional organization for approxi- marketing students have taken on Special Wish as a mately 95% of the nation’s Certified Kenneth Esselstein (B.S.Ed.;75 Registered Nurse Anesthetists M.Ed.) was named as the new assis- hands-on learning experience, raising more than (CRNA). Prior to his current office, tant principal of Greeneview High $140,000 over the last decade, and created a Hoffman served as an AANA regional School. He has been a teacher in the director for two years. He also sat on district for more than 20 years. successful marketing plan. Marketing professor the AANA Minimum Elements, Occu- Tom Dovel has served on the Special Wish board pational Safety and Hazards, and Nominating Committees. He is also CLASS OF 1974 for 10 years, established the nation’s first student- former president and president-elect based wish granting club at WSU, and organized of the Ohio States Association of David E. Van Oss (B.S.B.) was the first international conference for wish granting Nurse Anesthetists (OSANA). elected chairman of the USA Rice Hoffman is a Certified Registered Federation, a national association organizations in 1990. Nurse Anesthetist, and worked for representing all segments of the U.S. Lantz is quick to deflect any credit for the Seiler-Scharf Anesthesia Incorpo- rice industry. During his two-year rated for more than 22 years. term he will work to create opportu- chapter’s success. “I’m a father, too. When I see nities to strengthen the long-term what these families are going through, I wonder economic viability of the industry. CLASS OF 1977 Van Oss was recently elected vice how I could handle something like that. They are chairman of the Rice Foundation, and the ones who inspire me. They are the real heroes,” Joseph Apone (M.S.) and his wife, also chairs the USA Rice Interna- Catherine, celebrated the birth of tional Promotion Committee. Cur- he says, taking a long look out the window. their fifth child, Anastasia Altus, last March. —By Connie Steele
26 Community FALL 2000 Captain William H. Carey (B.S.B.) allowed the residents to go to was saluted during Fairborn School Mozambique to help flood victims District’s 13th annual Hall of Honor last April. Pacholka and his wife, induction ceremony last April. Carey Katy, have traveled to Mozambique is the commander of the Sea Control and nearby Swaziland for several Wing, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, and he is years, and they established the In responsible for combat readiness for His Name mission a year ago. all five East Coast readiness S-3B Pacholka is currently working at Viking squadrons in the Navy. Carey Miami Valley Hospital. also has more than 3,000 flight hours and more than 600 aircraft Gregory W. Furlong (M.B.A.) carrier landings. serves on the executive committee of Joyce/Dayton Corporation and is Christy L. Donnelly (B.S.Ed.; 82 responsible for product and market M.Ed.) was selected as superinten- development. The corporation has dent of Vandalia-Butler school dis- developed an electronic jack selec- trict last June. She has been an edu- tion program, called JAX, which is cator for 22 years and had been designed to help engineers opti- Vandalia-Butler pupil personnel mize their designs. Furlong is cur- director. Donnelly has also served as rently allied chairman of the Power- service staff supervisor and liaison Motion Technology Representa- for a consortium of nine Miami tives Association and active with County school districts. the conveyor Product Section and Vertical Reciprocating Conveyor Yolande Grinzinski (M.Ed.) pub- Subcommittee of Material Handling lished a series of books for grades Industry of America. three and four and grades five and six entitled Write on Target. The Robert K. Shephard (B.S.) is the series, which Grinzinski coauthored, Beavercreek Police Department’s focuses on using graphic organizers communications dispatcher. The to help students score higher on the former marine volunteered 13 Ohio Proficiency Test. Grinzinski is years as a member of the police Teachers Ace Noise currently the assistant superinten- department’s Citizens on Preventa- dent of the Warren County Educa- tive Patrol, and was a member of Graduate student Jeff Gardner and Five Points Elementary third tional Service Center in Lebanon. the first COPP graduating class. He is a self-employed consultant for grade teacher Becky Hischemiller (98 B.S.Ed.) scored a win against housing needs for the disabled. classroom noise by collecting over 1,500 tennis balls from the CLASS OF 1978 campus community and the U.S. Tennis Association. Gardner cut Sherry Wheaton (M.D.), a geron- slits in the balls and attached them to the bottom of the chair legs, Charles W. Wray (B.S.Ed.) was tologist, is the medical director of chosen as principal of Tippecanoe eliminating the noise caused by students scraping chairs across the Miami Valley’s Seniorcare program, High School. He was the former linoleum floor. The tactic has proved so popular that three other and also serves on the Longterm principal of L.T. Ball Junior High classrooms at Five Points and four at Emerson Elementary School Care Foundation, a national board School. Wray has also worked as in Springfield also sport the unique chairs. Gardner is not stopping that focuses on nursing homes. assistant principal of Troy High Wheaton is a consultant on there. He’s still looking for more balls to fill requests from other School. His past positions held at Alzheimer’s Disease, elderly care, teachers. Anyone interested in donating used balls can contact Tippecanoe High School included; and other topics. Her awards in- Gardner at 236-0664 or email him at [email protected]. business teacher, dean of students, clude being named one of Dayton’s and assistant principal. 10 Top Women in 1992, and Health Career Woman of the Year in 1994. resources, information technology, She has also received the CLASS OF 1982 CLASS OF 1979 capital, and managing for results. Alzheimer’s Association’s Founda- Vernon Dale Jones (M.B.A.) re- Dale also accepted the position of Josh Klarin (B.A.) was appointed to tion Award. tired from the U.S. Air Force as a associate professor of public admin- president and CEO of Primedia’s colonel in August. He was the istration at Maxwell School of Citi- Workplace Learning, a B2B video deputy department head of the zenship and Public Affairs at Syra- operation. Klarin will lead the CLASS OF 1981 Department of Political Science at cuse University. nation’s largest group of business- David B. Nolin (B.S.; 84 M.S.) the U.S. Air Force Academy in to-business satellite networks and spoke at the 19th annual Ohio Prai- Colorado Springs. Upon his retire- other video products. rie Conference, which was held at ment, Dale accepted the position of CLASS OF 1983 the Audubon Aullwood Center and director of the Government Perfor- Dr. William Mark Stuckey (B.S.) Farm in August. Nolin’s speech mance Project. This project is a CLASS OF 1980 was promoted to professor of phys- promoted and encouraged preser- national-level, multi-year effort to ics from associate professor of Roger Pacholka (B.A.; 85 M.D.) vation of remaining Ohio prairies. assess the management capacity of Physics at Elizabethtown College. connected WSU emergency medical Nolin currently manages parkland all 50 states, the 35 largest cities, residents with funding from and park prairies as Five Rivers and selected countries. The re- Humedica, a Christian disaster-relief MetroParks’ assistant director for search focuses on five key man- agency in Germany. This funding stewardship. agement systems: financial, human
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CLASS OF 1984 Jeanette Murphy (B.S.B.) joined Karen Morgan (B.S.N.) became the Mike King (B.F.A.) is working as Employers Resource Association new director of health services at cinematographer on a music video Greg Worch (B.S.B.) was appointed as director of compensation ser- Greene Oaks Health Center in Xenia. for the rock group Pantera. The as vice president of sales at Indus- vices. She will be responsible for She will see to the day-to-day nurs- video presents a documentary of the trial America last June. Worch will be designing and implementing cus- ing needs of the residents of Greene Pantera family tree, as well as a responsible for Industrial America’s tomized job evaluation and perfor- Oaks, which offers full care for senior celebration of the band’s fan base. national accounts program, direct mance management systems. adults ranging from independent The song, “Revolution is My Name” sales to exchange participants, sales living to special Alzheimer’s unit. is from the band’s Reinventing the consulting, and strategic business James Brent Prichard (B.A.) cor- Steel album. development activities. Prior to respondent for The Associated working at Industrial America, Press in Evansville, Ind., was CLASS OF 1989 Penny Park (B.A.; B.F.A.) had her Worch led the sales and interactive named correspondent in Grand contemporary city and suburban Rapids last June. Cathy Guerrant (B.S.B) has recently landscapes featured in an exhibit at marketing efforts for National Data passed the pharmacology certifica- Corporation (NDC). During his ten- Kettering’s Rosewood Gallery last Vicky L. Weddington (B.S.EG.) tion exam and works as the senior ure there, Worch received the May. Park has received many was named the new business de- human resources consultant at ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Insti- awards and grants and has been velopment specialist in The Timken Battelle & Battelle. tution Technology Innovation award exhibited throughout Ohio. She Corporation Alloy Steel Business. for directing the creation of an e- teaches drawing and painting at She joined the corporation in 1990 Bob M. Johnson (B.S.B) was named commerce “in-a-box” Internet store- Wright State University. as a steel business associate at the business relationship manager at front and payments products. Harrison Steel Plant. In 1992 she KeyBank in Hamilton. He is respon- was named senior process metal- sible for servicing the financial needs CLASS OF 1992 CLASS OF 1985 lurgist at the Faircrest Steel Plant. of the business community. She was assigned to the Acceler- Charlie Back (B.A.) was chosen as Rosalyn Lake (B.A.) is the new asso- John “Bud” O’Brien (B.S.B.) was ated Continuous Improvement the head coach of the boys’ basket- ciate vice president for development reelected as the Miami County re- Project as a leadership team mem- ball team at Beavercreek High and university relations at corder in March. He was appointed ber in 1994. Weddington also School. Wilberforce University. Prior to her to the office in 1996 and was subse- worked as principal metallurgical appointment at Wilberforce, she was Bryan J. Bucklew (B.A.) currently quently elected to a four-year term. quality assurance engineer. Her a community relations specialist at works as Vice President of Govern- most recent Reynolds and Reynolds company. ment Affairs at the Dayton Chamber David Magee (B.S.B; 95 M.B.A) was position was the of Commerce. named vice president of marketing principal techni- with Invisible Worlds. Before coming cal services Doug Eyink (B.M.) and the three to Invisible Worlds, David was vice CLASS OF 1990 engineer. The other members of the Bluegrass president at Lexis-Nexis and execu- Timken Com- Scott Arnold (B.S.; 94 M.D.) was Power Company have released Pure tive vice president at Vetri Systems, pany is a leading promoted to staff pathologist at the Acoustic Power, a compact disc of Inc. international Greene Memorial Hospital Medical traditional and alternative bluegrass. manufacturer of Laboratory last February. Misty McDowell (B.S.N; 98 M.S.) Evink is also the music director at highly engineered bearings and has worked the past 10 years as six Centerville schools where his alloy steels with operations in 25 health care administrator at Dayton curriculum includes Celtic, blue- countries. CLASS OF 1991 Correctional Institution. grass, blues, jazz, be-bop, swing, Dr. Michael R. Barratt (M.S.) began and rock. training along with 16 other mem- CLASS OF 1986 CLASS OF 1987 bers of the NASA Astronaut Class of Kay Richards (M.A.T.) is now the new principal of Beavertown El- Douglas Allington (B.A.) was pro- 2000 in August. Barratt was chosen Earl Rocky Belcher (B.S.B.) was ementary School. During the previ- moted to training and performance through a competitive process that named as a finalist for the Ernst & manager of the U.S. Sales and Ser- evaluates education, training, experi- ous three years, she was the princi- Young Entrepreneur of the Year pal of one of the three units at vice for Galileo International. ence, and other qualifications. He will award. The award honors managers Kettering Middle School. Through- Allington will manage all of the inter- join the 164 astronauts who are cur- and owners of companies who have nal training for the U.S. market. rently listed on active duty. out her teaching career, Richards made outstanding contributions to has received numerous grants and Galileo international is one of the entrepreneurship. Belcher is the presi- awards including $60,000 from the world’s leading providers of elec- John Gibbs (B.A.) was appointed as dent of Active-Investor.com, a com- tronic global distribution services for boys head soccer coach at Greenon Grimes Foundation to implement pany that provides technical analysis computer technology in Urbana the travel industry. High School in Enon. He was an as- research to on-line stock market trad- sistant soccer mentor for 12 years at schools. She has also been honored ers and investment professionals. Vandalia Butler High School and for by the Champaign County Board of one year at Xenia. Gibbs is a co- Mental Retardation and Develop- Brian Lewis (B.A.) works as a phar- CLASS OF 1988 founder of the Gunners FC Soccer mental Disabilities for improving the maceutical representative with Glaxo Bradley Jackson (M.D.) was ap- Club for ages 13-18. He was a four- quality of life for students. Richards Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he pointed president of the medical year starter in soccer at Wright State has served as a teacher and princi- worked for Merrell-Dow Pharmaceu- and dental staff of Children’s Hos- University. Gibbs has worked as a pal in Urbana public schools be- ticals. Lewis received a certified pital Medical Center of Cincinnati. probation officer for the Vandalia tween 1973 and 1997. medical representative degree in He has been a member of the staff Municipal Court the past four years. 1989 and a Master of Science degree since 1992, and he practices with in communications management in Bethesda Group Practice in Kings 1994. Mills.
28 Community FALL 2000 CLASS OF 1993 CLASS OF 1995 CLASS OF 1996 Chad Fourman (B.M.) was chosen as the Franklin High School band Brian Crowe (B.F.A.) worked as a Kevin Bell (B.S.Ed.) was named to Matthew Fritz (B.A.) taught Drawn director. He will direct the jazz , guest director for the play Noises Off principal of Broadmoor Academy to History: Architecture and Artifacts/ concert, and marching bands. last April in the Victoria Theatre. He where he will be replacing Rodolfo Art Exploration classes during the Fourman has taught private lessons is currently rewriting his senior Bernardo this fall. Bell was a sixth- summer Youth Program 2000, which in schools, played professionally thesis, Nevermore, for a Human grade teacher in Trotwood since is offered by the Centerville-Wash- and served as an assistant director Race tour of Dayton-area schools 1997. Prior to that, he taught in the ington Twp. Historical Society for at Tecumseh High School for three next summer. Crowe is head of edu- Dayton Public Schools as a first- students in fifth grade through high years and Fairborn High School for cation for the New Jersey and second-grade multiage school. He is also a preservationist seven years. Shakespeare Festival and was teacher. and woodworking businessman. named on the New Jersey’s “20 for 2000,” a list of the state’s best and Jacquelyn Borgeson (M.A.) was CLASS OF 2000 brightest for the new century. selected to receive an International CLASS OF 1997 Katherin Nolte (B.A.) won this Partnership Among Museums Tonya Gray (B.S.; 94 B.S.M.T.) won Award by the, American Associa- Marcia Ostergren Baits (M.M.) will year’s Stony Brook Undergraduate Fiction Prize of $1000. The contest a gold medal in weapons competi- tion on Museums. Borgeson will be profiled in the 18th edition of was sponsored by the State Univer- tion and a silver medal in forms at undertake an exchange with the Who’s Who in the World, due out in the Martial Arts Millennium Games Musee de Manega in Burkina Faso, December 2001. She will be one of sity of New York at Stony Brook. in Sydney, Australia. The Millennium West Africa as part of this award. 45,000 high achievers highlighted in the world-famous publication. Baits Marisa Holloway (B.S.B.) was ac- Games were held last April and are cepted into Wright State University’s considered an opening venue to the Scott Dawson (B.A.) sings tenor teaches music at Whittier Elementary M.B.A. program. 2000 Olympics. for the acapella band “Fourth Av- School in Dayton and is founder of enue.” The band practices vocal the weekly Cedarville News and co- Jason Scott (B.S.Ed.) is teaching Renee Hopson (B.F.A.) was pro- percussion or recreating the founder of the Cedarville Opera freshman American History at Troy House Society. moted to manager of the Art Re- sounds of any rhythmic instrument High School to help prepare stu- search Department at the Mazer via voice. Fourth Avenue moved dents for the 10th-grade proficiency Corporation, one of the largest ser- into the fair circuit this summer. test. vice providers to educational pub- CLASS OF 1998 Art Hung (B.S.B.) has joined lishers, such as McGraw-Hill, Michael Haeflinger (B.A.) co-orga- Gina Wurst (B.S.Ed.) is teaching Sharkbytes, an Internet consulting Prentice Hall, and Harcourt. Hopson nized the Mad River Poets, which sixth grade at the Preble Shawnee and development firm, as project is responsible for locating images reads at the Trolley Stop every few School District. She was a general manager. He is helping to manage for use in textbooks and other edu- months. Haeflinger also puts out a studies honor scholar in elementary development of the Cincinnati cational materials. In 1997 she broadside containing poems by the education, and was inducted into the Museum Center’s redesigned joined the corporation and has held Mad River Poets and is currently Golden Key National Honors Society Internet site and managing the art researcher and senior art re- working on a book of member’s among other scholastic honorary redesign of the Making Everlasting searcher positions. Before joining poetry. He has also read his poems groups. She is a member of both the Memories Web site. Hung was Mazer, Hopson was the operations at WSU. Ohio and National Council of Teach- project analyst and project coordi- assistant manager with The Museum ers of Mathematics. Company in Dayton. She has had nator at Entex Information Ser- John R. Mitchel (M.S.) is the Re- several exhibitions and has received vices. form Party candidate for the 7th first award and honorable mention Congressional District Seat. BIRTHS William Johnson (B.S.B.) married for her work. Hopson is a member of Dana Johnson on July 24, 1999. the College Art Association, the Kevin Naeve (B.F.A.) proposed to Chris (93 B.S.B.) and Angela Dayton Art Institute, the Dayton Leslie Hochadel (00 B.F.A.) last May. (Yates) (93 B.S.Ed.) Collier cel- Todd Lawson (B.F.A.) played the Visual Art Center, and the Cincinnati The proposal took place during ebrate the birth of their son Porter role of Pip/Theo in the Human Hochadel’s senior voice recital. They James, born in March. Porter joined Art Museum. Race Theater’s production of Three met when they both sang in the his three-year-old sister, Cayenne Days of Rain last spring. Lawson Wright State University chorus. Christine. CLASS OF 1994 also performed in the recent Broadway production of Summer Juee Tendulkar (M.S.) joined Pam Davis (89 B.A.) and her hus- Tony Orr (B.S.Ed.) was chosen to be and Smoke. His last performance Xanthon Inc. as a software engineer band, Steve, announce the birth of the principal of Weisenborn Middle with the Human Race was in the last April. their daughter, Ciarra Madison Eliza- School in Huber Heights. He will 1993 production of Prelude to a beth, born December of 1998. lead a staff of 60 teachers at the Kiss. 900-pupil school. CLASS OF 1999 Brian P. Oliver (93 B.A.) and Mary Sheila Pierce (M.S.) was selected L. Oliver (95 B.A.; 98 M.A.) an- Crystal Saxon (B.S.N) is a certified as the new nurse director for the J. Breck Davis (B.A.) had his seven- nounce the birth of their daughter, psychiatric and mental health nurse Medical Acute Care Unit at Greene year-old male Labrador retriever, Sarah Kathleen, who was born in at Good Samaritan Hospital and Memorial Hospital in Xenia last Cub, inducted in the professional June. Health Center. She was featured in April. animal category as an assistance dog the May/June 2000 issue of Health at the Ohio Veterinary Medical Asso- Care Today. ciation Hall of Fame last March.
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2000 Olympics, With a Wright State Flavor
By Bob Noss he Olympics. That’s the Ngoma, the first current Wright placing eighth in the world. “That’s ultimate goal of all ath State athlete to participate in the a feeling I’ll try to convey to our Tletes. Whether you’re from Olympics, had another first last swimmers and anyone who wants the United States or one of the winter when he opened his window to listen. I am just grateful for the hundreds of countries around the blind and saw snow for the first time. opportunities that I have had. The world, Olympic time is very spe- “The snow was something I was people were great, and now I’ll cial. It’s a time of dreams. Who actually looking forward to since I concentrate on Wright State’s hasn’t wondered what it would be had never seen it before,” Ngoma success.” like to travelDIGITAL to a far land and said. “I might as well have gone to compete with the world’s best Mars. The differences are great athletes? from my home country to here but I That dream came true for three have been able to adjust and every- athletes with ties with the Wright one here at Wright State has been State University Athletic Depart- friendly and helpful to me. ment: an assistant swimming “Coming to Wright State has coach, a graduate assistant with the been great for me,” he added. “It Compliance Office, and a current has allowed me the chance to swim student-athlete. and pursue my degree. And now I have another wonderful memory of A Lasting Experience being an Olympian.” Leonard Ngoma represented the Raiders and his native country of Second Time Around Zambia in Australia. Sion Brinn, a newly hired assis- “Going to the Olympics is tant swimming coach, made his something I will always remem- second Olympic appearance, ber,” says Ngoma. “The camarade- representing Jamaica in the 1996 rie of all the athletes, the opening games. This time, with his dual ceremonies—everything will citizenship, the Louisiana State always be etched in my mind. I graduate represented his father’s hope I can hold onto that feeling homeland of England in Sydney. forever.” “The Olympics was a great Although his third-place finish in experience, and the second time the preliminary heat of the 200 around had added flavor since I breaststroke didn’t qualify him to knew what to expect. I was able to move into the finals, it did qualify relax more and enjoy the atmo- him to go down in history as an sphere more,” Brinn said. Olympic athlete. “We gave it everything we had,” Ngoma has spent three years in he added, about his 400-medley the United States—two at a high team advancing to the finals, and school in Florida and one at WSU. WSU swimmer Leonard Ngoma and coach Sion Holder of his home nation’s 100 Brinn represented their native countries at the 2000 and 200 breaststroke records, Olympics games in Sydney.
30 Community FALL 2000 England’s top swimmer in the 50 can share that Olympic-type of was named the NAIA National and 100 butterfly, Brinn trained for enthusiasm with the Wright State Player of the Year in 1998 and was the past four years with the LSU team.” named to many scholar-athlete teams. squad and conducted clinics throughout the world. The 26-year- From Athletics Office to How They Did: old said that this was probably his Olympics Basketball Court Sion Brinn, Great Britain: 8th final Olympics, but looks forward Another WSU connection at the place in the 400 Medley Relay. to starting his coaching career at Olympics was graduate student Competed in the 400 Meter Relay, Wright State. Marieme Lo. Lo, who works in the but did not qualify for the finals. “I have been able to have some Athletic Department Compliance Leonard Ngoma, Zambia: com- tremendous memories and I hope I Office, played basketball for peted in the 200 meter breaststroke, Senegal for her second Olympic but did not qualify for the finals. appearance. After a stellar college Marieme Lo, Senegal: Competed career at Central State University, in six games for Senegal, which lost the 24-year-old has set her eyes on all six games and did not advance to
the future. A 1998 graduate, she the medal round.
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by Stephanie James Ely Determination Drives Para-athlete ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Another Hall of Fame for Grote trength, determination, and skill set Olympic athletes apart—not wheelchairs or vision impairments or disabilities. That’s how Bob Grote, a member of the Sgold-medal-winner James Terpenning approached his challenge Wright State University Athletic as he headed to Sydney in October to compete in his fourth Paralympic Hall of Fame for basketball and Games. baseball, was recently elected to Until you’ve seen him in action, Terpenning’s wheelchair, leg braces, or the Cincinnati Basketball Hall of the novelty of seeing him sit cross-legged on the floor to play volleyball Fame. A graduate of Elder High may distinguish his sport from that of able-bodied volleyball. But once the School in Cincinnati, Grote played game begins, his athleticism, intensity, and skill blur his disability. at WSU from 1973 to 1976. Abandoned at birth, and disabled by polio and shrapnel that imbedded Grote is eighth on the all-time in his legs when he was a toddler in Vietnam, Terpenning arrived in the men’s basketball scoring list with U.S. in 1975 on the last baby-lift project, just before the fall of Saigon. 1,406 points, and is in the top 10 Adopted six months later at age six, he has been playing wheelchair sports in several other categories, includ- since he was 14. Last year, he walked down the aisle aided by braces, to ing free throws attempted and marry Shannon Wagner Terpenning, a senior secretary in the Asian/ made, steals, and rebounds. In Hispanic/Native American Center. She accompanied him to Sydney, baseball, Grote’s career ERA of
where 4,000 disabled athletes competed in 18 sports. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 2.28 is second only to current A 1998 graduate of the Raj Soin College of Business and former em- major leaguer Brian Anderson. ployee of the Office of Disability Services, Terpenning competed in the Grote is the all-time Raider leader 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning gold and bronze medals in complete games, tied for first in and setting a world record in swimming. He competed as a swimmer again shutouts, and is fourth in
in 1992 in Barcelona, but switched strikeouts. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ to sitting volleyball for the 1996 ○○ games in Atlanta. “When I first Simmons Named started wheelchair sports I only Women’s Basketball knew about basketball and swim- Assistant Coach ming,” he says. “I came to Wright Beth Simmons has been added State for its wheelchair sports to the coaching staff for Wright program and had my eyes opened State women’s basketball. to so many other opportunities.” Simmons will be primarily in- Terpenning continues to coach and volved in administrative areas play on Wright State’s wheelchair off the court. basketball team. A four-year lettter-winner for Now, when he isn’t busy as a the Akron Zips from 1992-96, computer specialist at Wright- Simmons was recruited by and Patterson Air Force Base, played for WSU head coach Lisa Terpenning, who turned 32 in Stephanie James Ely Fitch. Sydney, gives sports exhibitions at Simmons was the head coach local elementary schools. “I want at Norton High School last season, able-bodied and disabled people to leading the team to a district title know that anybody can do any- for the first time in nearly 15 thing they want to do,” he says. years. James Terpenning
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RAIDERS BASKETBALL SCHEDULES
Men’s Basketball Schedule ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Women’s Basketball Schedule
Fri. Nov. 17 GREENVILLE (IL) 8:30 p.m. Fri. Nov. 17 DAYTON 6:30 p.m. Tue. Nov. 21 @ Northern Illinois 6:30 p.m. Tue. Nov. 21 @ Indiana St. 7 p.m. Tue. Nov. 28 ALABAMA A&M 7 p.m. Sat. Nov. 25 @ Ohio 3 p.m. Sat. Dec. 2 @ Tennessee State 8 p.m. Tue. Nov. 28 BALL ST. 5 p.m. Mon. Dec. 4 @ South Alabama 8 p.m. Sat. Dec. 2 @ Miami 2 p.m. Thu. Dec. 7 PRARIE VIEW 7 p.m. Fri. Dec. 8 Akron# TBA Mon. Dec. 11 @ UW-Green Bay* 8 p.m. Sat. Dec. 9 at Hawaii# Midnight Sat. Dec. 16 HIGH POINT 2 p.m. Sun. Dec 10 at Hawaii 10 p.m. Tue. Dec. 19 MIAMI (OH) 9 p.m. Wed. Dec. 13 MARSHALL 7 p.m. Thu. Dec. 21 ST. FRANCIS (PA) 7 p.m. Sat. Dec. 16 B. GREEN Noon Wed. Dec. 27 @ Oakland+ 5 p.m. Tue. Dec. 19 @ W. Virginia 7 p.m. Sat. Dec. 30 @ Michigan State 7:30 p.m. Sat. Dec. 23 @ Youngs. St. 2 p.m.
Tue. Jan. 2 MOREHEAD ST. 7 p.m. Sun. Dec. 31 ST. BONA 2 p.m. ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Sat. Jan. 6 BUTLER* 7 p.m. Thur. Jan. 4 @ Morehead 7 p.m. Thu. Jan. 11 DETROIT* 7 p.m. Thur. Jan. 11 @ UIC* 5:30 p.m. Sat. Jan. 13 CLEVELAND ST.* 1 p.m. Sun. Jan. 14 @ Loyola* 2 p.m. Thu. Jan. 18 @ UW-Milwaukee* 8 p.m. Sat. Jan. 20 @ Butler* 2 p.m. Wright State Women’s Thu. Jan. 25 LOYOLA* 7 p.m. Thur. Jan. 25 DETROIT* 5 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 UIC* 7 p.m. Sat. Jan. 27 CLEVELAND ST. 2 p.m. Soccer Threepeats as Wed., Jan. 31 TEXAS PAN-AM 7 p.m. Thur. Feb. 1 @ UW-Milwaukee 8 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 @ Butler* (ESPN) 2 p.m. Sat. Feb. 3 @ UW-Green Bay 4 p.m. MCC Champions Thu. Feb. 8 @ Cleveland St.* 7 p.m. Thur. Feb. 8 LOYOLA* 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10 @ Detroit* 4 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10 UIC* 1 p.m. The Wright State Women’s Thu. Feb. 15 UW-GREEN BAY* 7 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 BUTLER* 2 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 UW-MILWAUKEE* Noon Thur. Feb. 22 @ Cleveland St.*. 7 p.m. Soccer team won its third con- Thu., Feb. 22 @ UIC* 8 p.m. Sat. Feb. 24 @ Detroit* 2 p.m. secutive Midwestern Collegiate Sat. Feb. 24 @Loyola* 4 p.m. ○○○○○○○○○○○ Thur. Mar. 1 UW-GREEN BAY* 7 p.m. Sat. March 3 MCC 1ST ROUND Noon/2:30 pm Sun. Mar. 4 UW-MILWAUKEE* 7 p.m. Conference championship at 6/8:30 pm Mar. 8-10 MCC Tourn. TBA Sun., March 4 MCC SEMI-FINALS 5/7:30 pm Alumni Field. The #3 seed Raid- Tue., March 6 MCC FINALS (ESPN) 7 p.m. HOME GAMES IN ALL CAPS #Denotes Hawaii Invitational ers used a goal from junior for- HOME GAMES IN ALL CAPS *Denotes conference games *DENOTES CONFERENCE GAMES Dates/Times subject to change ward Sharon Roscoe late in the +at The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI first half to defeat #1 seed Wis- consin-Milwaukee 1-0. The Panthers outshot the Wright State Wins Twice Raiders 18-7 for the game, but the to Claim Raider Challenge WSU defense and goalkeeper Randi Freeman held firm. Free- he Wright State volleyball team won the 2000 Raider Challenge man recorded three straight at the McLin Gymnasium by defeating Western Kentucky and shutouts in the tournament and Central Florida. Both Wright State and Western Kentucky T was named MVP. Joining Free- posted 2-1 records in the tournament, but the Raiders defeated the Lady man and Roscoe on the all- Toppers in its first match to win the tiebreaker and the championship. tournament team were freshman Wright State defeated Western Kentucky 15-4, 6-15, 15-9, 13-15, 15- forward Alicia Bailey, sophomore 7. Sophomore Karis Day, who was named Raider Challenge MVP, led midfielder Amy Franks, and the way for WSU with 26 kills, 14 digs, and five block assists. Senior senior forward Amy Teetor. outside hitter Tara Trissel added 19 kills while junior middle hitter Liza Wright State advanced to the Osterhage, who was also named to the All-Tournament Team, posted a NCAA tournament first round, double-double of 13 kills and 13 digs along with seven blocks. Senior where they lost a 2-1 double middle hitter Darlene Prunty chipped in 17 kills off the bench. overtime heartbreaker to #17 The Raiders then defeated Central Florida 15-7, 15-1, 15-11 to claim ranked Marquette. the title as Prunty led the way with 16 kills and five blocks. Trissel added 11 kills off the bench.
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