Spring 2008

The Magazine of the UIndyUniversity of Indianapolis Portico

In this issue

inch by inch Students return from a Liberia service trip with a plan to improve education in West Africa. Page 10

visible legacy As chair of the Board of Trustees, Christel DeHaan has overseen more than a decade of growth and change at UIndy. Page 6

grief and loss Professor’s study reveals the emotional impact on dementia caregivers. Page 24

alumni.uindy.edu 1 UIndyPortico

Table of Contents 4 6 10 15 ‘Doing good with Christel DeHaan steps Saving the world, Scholarly pursuits what you know’ down as board chair inch by inch Catch up on faculty/staff President Beverley Pitts One of the world’s most Lydia Fisher and Lyndsay activities and academic celebrates when students do prominent business leaders McBride joined a UIndy highlights, such as the well, of course—but also and philanthropists, she trip to war-torn Liberia to new degree program to when they do good. has led the trustees for help build a school. When help career changers prepare more than 10 years, and they returned home, they for leadership positions in 5 her leadership has helped launched a new foundation the nursing field. New Lugar Center put UIndy on the map. to keep the help coming. builds on relationship 24 with senior senator 8 14 Dementia study After three decades Schwitzer Student UIndy tapped for breaks new ground of hosting the Lugar Center growing again national teacher Dr. Jacquelyn Frank has Symposium, UIndy has In an effort to keep pace recruitment initiative examined the seldom- announced the Richard with a larger student body The University is the only studied phenomena G. Lugar Center for and stay competitive in private school, and one of of “anticipatory grief” Tomorrow’s Leaders. the student services arena, only four institutions in the and “ambiguous loss” construction has begun state, chosen to launch the experienced by caregivers. to expand Schwitzer by national Woodrow Wilson another 48,000 square feet. fellowship program.

On the Cover Lyndsay McBride holds a young student from Kpain, Liberia, during a service trip last spring to help the townspeople build a school. What she and Lydia Fisher saw there inspired them to find a way to send more educational resources to West Africa. 2 PORTICO spring 2008 2007–2008 Editor’s note Alumni Association Board of Directors G r e e t i n g s ! Brian Martin ’88, President We’re excited about some significant developments in Amber Harrison Stearns ’95, UIndy publications, one of which you now hold in your President-elect hands. Portico looks and feels a bit different, for example. Cindy Blackburn Bickel ’94 ’98, We’ve chosen a paper stock that carries the Forest Stewardship Immediate Past President Council badge of approval; both its manufacturer and our Vicky Swank ’78 ’80 ’99, Secretary printer earned this distinction by supporting the growth of Ronald Bolyard ’70 responsible forest management worldwide. The magazine now has more pages than ever and features full color throughout. Roberta Brooker ’74 You’ll find other changes, too, that we believe will better tell Amy Johnson Burton ’94 the University’s story. We’d like to know what you think! Suzanne Davidson ’02 ’06 Write [email protected]. C. Randy Ellison ’77 ’80 ’99 Thomas Flanagan ’95 We’re also pleased to announce the upcoming debut of a Gretchen Craft Fox ’93 new publication, called 1400 in a nod to UIndy’s Hanna Mustafa Guven ’99 Avenue address. This beautiful annual magazine will replace William Hartung ’81 Portico. the summer issue of It will feature some of the most Greg Hill ’74 important highlights of the previous academic year at UIndy David Howey ’94 and demonstrate some of the many ways the University R. Jeffrey Irvin ’65 contributes to the body of knowledge through faculty and Nick LaGuire ’04 student research, preparing future professionals dedicated Cindy Lewis ’99 ’05 to improving the lives of others, and building important relationships locally, nationally, and internationally. Kelly Dunwell McWilliams ’91 Watch for 1400 in your mailbox this summer. —RPN Bruce Miller ’74 Juan Paz ’95 ’96 ’99 Marvin Pavlov ’98 Shane Steimel ’95 ’97 25 28 Portico Joe Stafford ’98 Honorary degree Hall of Fame adds The magazine of the David Swift ’72 recipients include team, four individuals University of Indianapolis Sonja Freeman White ’06 foundation president Read these highlights, then University Editor Amy Buskirk Zent ’58 The Woodrow Wilson foun- visit athletics.uindy.edu for R. Peter Noot ’77 ’84 dation president is the 2008 the latest Greyhound news. Art Director graduate commencement See how to receive text Nondiscriminatory Jeannine Allen Policies speaker; Christel DeHaan updates for the latest scores. does the undergraduate Assistant Director The University of Indianapolis honors. And the Rev. Fr. for Publications does not discriminate on the basis 30 Jennifer L. Huber ’07 Boniface Hardin is awarded Put on your-your-your- of race, color, gender, age, religion, an honorary doctorate. your-your boogie shoes Director of Alumni Relations creed, sexual orientation, marital Upcoming events include Monica M. Woods status, or ethnic or national origin 26 some great trips, a disco- Assistant Director of in any of its program offerings Zupancic clears themed Alumni Weekend Alumni Relations or employment practices. The path for Colts (p. 32), and the Ink Spots. Myla Edmond University is committed to the spirit This alumnus and UIndy Class Notes and letter of the Rehabilitation trustee is senior VP of 34 Kendra Fowler ’07 ’08 Act of 1973 and the Americans sales and marketing for Class notes Chelsea Ross ’11 with Disabilities Act and strives to Indy’s NFL franchise, and Also: David White ’06 has provide equal access to all phases of Contributing Writers negotiations have kicked his own take on changing Mary Atteberry ’07 University life and activity. into high gear, thanks to the the world, via the Peace Scott Hall new Lucas Oil Stadium. Corps in Costa Rica (p. 39). Please address correspondence and address changes to the Office of Alumni Relations. alumni.uindy.edu 3 President’s Forum Inches International ‘Doing good with what you know’

I’ve been invited to various service clubs and churches this year to talk about the University

of Indianapolis and its relationship to the city, the state, and the world. In those speeches,

I’ve been describing our emphasis on instilling in students the value of “doing good with

what you know”—of taking one’s education into the world and making it a better place.

There is no better example of that ethos than our cover story.

Lydia Fischer and Lyndsay McBride are two remarkable Honors College students whose

service trip to Liberia to help build a school (Portico, Fall 2007) has inspired a longer-term

mission to benefit the children of West Africa. The two created an enterprise to sell bracelets

of their own design, the proceeds earmarked to support education efforts there. I hope you

will read what they have to say about their experiences and this important project. Lyndsay

observes that “education is the first step in changing a life or rebuilding a nation.” I would

add that it also is the first step in becoming a good citizen of the world. These young women

have mastered that lesson, and we couldn’t be more proud.

There are many other ways in which the students, faculty, and staff of UIndy are making a

difference locally, regionally, and globally. You’ll have a chance to read about some of them,

and other highlights of the 2007–08 academic year that are keeping this institution at the

forefront of higher education, in a new annual publication that will debut in June. The new

magazine, which we’ve named 1400 in reference to our street address, will replace what has

been the summer issue of Portico. I think you will be impressed, and I hope it will give our

alumni even more reason to be proud to hold a UIndy degree.

4 PORTICO spring 2008 University celebrates Symposium’s three decades Richard G. Lugar Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders

New Lugar center builds on senator’s long relationship with UIndy

The University of Indianapolis and the office of U.S. Sen. Richard G. Lugar (shown with a 2008 Symposium participant at right) have announced the formation of a center dedicated to inspiring and developing new generations of leaders for Indiana, the nation, and the world. The Richard G. Lugar Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders will build on the principles of the annual Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders, a one- day event that gathers Indiana’s top high school juniors for expert-led discussions on public issues and world events. The University has hosted the symposium since it was founded in 1977. The new center will be a permanent home for the annual symposium and will provide extended experiences for high school and college students that expose them to leadership opportunities, the value of leadership in service to others, issues of ethics and integrity in leadership, and the qualities of strong leaders. Building on the University’s core values, the center will reinforce the value of a liberal arts education in preparing young Extending the goals of the Lugar people to be tomorrow’s leaders. The center symposium, the center will develop: will have a director and a nonpartisan external advisory committee. leadership academies for high school students at their schools and on the UIndy campus, “We started the Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s with instruction by University faculty. UIndy Leaders during my first year in the Senate, and the already offers such academies in economics University of Indianapolis has been an extraordinary and finance. partner for the past 30 years,” Lugar said. “More than program enhancements for high schools that 15,000 young Hoosiers have come to this campus expose students to models of civic leadership. for the symposium to debate, learn, and expand their a weekend retreat for high school students thoughts and horizons about how to lead Indiana’s focused on the attributes of the Rhodes future. I am deeply honored by the permanent Scholarship, which Lugar himself was establishment of the Richard G. Lugar Center for awarded as a student in the 1950s. Tomorrow’s Leaders and excited about the possibilities annual recognition of an Indiana high for public service and leadership in our state that school student who exemplifies leadership will be inspired in new generations of Hoosiers.” in public service. “We in the UIndy community are delighted to Senator Lugar is a Distinguished Trustee of the be building on our long and treasured relationship University of Indianapolis, having served on the with Senator Lugar,” University President board from 1970 to 2002. He was awarded an Beverley J. Pitts said. “The qualities he honorary degree in 1970 and taught political science represents—leadership, community service, as a visiting professor in 1976, between his last term as integrity, ethics, and global perspective—reflect mayor of Indianapolis and his first term as a senator. the values we try to instill in our students.”

alumni.uindy.edu 5 hristel DeHaan steps down asC board chair after a decade of University growth

Mention the University of Indianapolis• to anyone counterparts. DeHaan is the recipient of many in Central Indiana and they’re likely to think of awards and recognitions, serves on local and the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. The facility, national boards, and continues to be a strong which contains one of the finest music performance voice for internationalization. halls in the Midwest, planted the University firmly “As you might expect for a person in her on the state’s cultural map when it opened in 1994 position, she has dozens of competing demands,” and marked the beginning of a new era of heightened Wingerter noted. “All of those would love to have visibility and prominence for the institution. the time she gives to the University. When she In May, the building’s namesake, comes to meetings, she doesn’t just show up; she’s Indianapolis civic leader and philanthropist totally involved, singularly focused.” Christel DeHaan, is stepping down as chair of Said board member Daniel F. Evans Jr., the Board of Trustees, a position she has held president and CEO of Clarian Health Partners in for the last 11 of her 18 years on the board. “The Indianapolis, “Christel is a world leader. She could University is deeply indebted to Christel, not have been a trustee at any university, yet she chose only for her visionary leadership of the board for the University of Indianapolis and there’s no more the last decade, but for her deep commitment to deserving institution. We are incredibly fortunate this university,” said President Beverley Pitts. to have a world leader on our board.” “We couldn’t ask for a more dedicated, more While the fine arts center is perhaps DeHaan’s enthusiastic, or more supportive board member.” most visible legacy, it is only one manifestation Said fellow trustee Robert Wingerter ’76, of her affinity and involvement. She was active in partner in Ernst & Young LLP, “There are three the selection of two presidents, Jerry Israel and things you ask of a board member—time, talent, Beverley Pitts, each of whom “brought appropriate and treasure. Christel has done all we’ve asked levels of leadership to the University at the of her and she has done it in spades. She’s the right time,” Wingerter said. An entrepreneur of consummate board member, and the example she considerable business acumen, DeHaan also has has set is one of passion and commitment.” introduced business practices to the University That commitment is all the more remarkable while recognizing when the unique features of a when you consider DeHaan’s extensive philan- university require variances, he noted. thropic and business activities, which frequently Evans further observed, “There are 50 people involve international travel. Since the sale of who could have brought business acumen to the RCI, a company she cofounded and owned board. There’s only one Christel DeHaan, and until l997, she has devoted much of her time to her leadership is transformational. That’s the Christel House, a public charity she founded difference. One needs only to look around at the with a mission to help impoverished children physical campus, or at the installation of a new break the cycle of poverty and become self- president who is herself transformational. Christel sufficient, contributing members of their has her eye on the ball of excellence all the time. society. She founded Christel House Academy She does nothing halfway.” in Indianapolis, a high-standards charter school Without question, DeHaan’s board leadership that puts disadvantaged youngsters on the same and financial support were critical to the success playing field as their more economically secure of the first-ever comprehensive Campaign for

6 PORTICO spring 2008 UIndy and are responsible for the establishment of The center’s benefactor has elevated the the University’s first fully funded endowed chair: University’s profile in other ways as well. B“ ecause the DeHaan Endowed Chair in Gerontology, of her community and worldwide recognition, which is now held by Dr. Ellen Miller, executive Christel has raised the visibility of the University director of the Center for Aging & Community. considerably,” Wingerter said. “She has been able But it was the opening of the fine arts center to attract a lot of good people to the board, and that signaled the beginning of an enrollment and also garnered the interest of a lot of important development boom at UIndy, which transformed people in the University’s activities.” the physical campus and supported programmatic “Many people have contributed to the success expansion. Over the succeeding decade, from of the University,” DeHaan said. “Given the 1994 to 2004, undergraduate enrollment would board’s track record over the past 10 years, it is increase by 50 percent and the University would exciting to envisage the growth and development develop Smith Mall, renovate and expand the the next 10 years will bring. Our size enables Schwitzer Student Center, build Martin Hall us to be nimble and flexible; those qualities while renovating the adjacent Lilly Hall, and coupled with a passion for excellence will further construct an alumni house and residence hall transform this university into an institution of (Central Hall). Meanwhile, two centers of regional, if not national, stature. There lies ahead excellence were created, international partnerships a bright, bright future.” —Mary Atteberry expanded, and the first doctoral programs established. It was, in DeHaan’s words, “a constant trajectory of growth.” The departing board chair remarked, I“ ’ve worked with three presidents, each different in style but each contributing greatly in moving the institution forward without compromising its core values. It has been especially gratifying to see the University’s visibility and reputation advance along with high-quality growth and development.” Many independent observers point to the fine arts center as a significant prestige factor for the University. The center has hosted world-famous artists, including composer John Corigliano, the London Chamber Orchestra, the Emerson Quartet, pianist Olga Kern, and soprano Kathleen Battle—and, of course, Artist- in-Residence Raymond Leppard, composer and retired conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. It is one of the sites for the International Violin Competition and has become a key jazz venue in Indianapolis.

alumni.uindy.edu 7 Schwitzer to be expanded Renovation to enhance the student experience

In the “new Schwitzer,” students will find a more open dining hall with rectangular rather than circular tables, and more serving areas that are accessible from all directions. The Ober side n e W dining rooms will be gone, replaced by stations EXPANSION for drinks, salad bar, and desserts. The kitchen area will flow into the dining area, and seating capacity in the hall will be increased by 100.

A pizza shop for quick pick-up orders and an expanded grill-and-coffee shop are other features of the renovation. They’ll be supported by new seating in what is now the Atrium that will be capable of accommodating 75 to 100 diners, compared to about 50 at present. Curved walls with glass will set off the recreational area (which includes Ping-Pong and pool tables) from the diners and provide a sound buffer.

The new wing, which will be finished initially on the first floor only, will feature a large special- events dining hall on the main level that can subdivide in several ways for maximum flexibility. At the outer end of the addition will be new, A groundbreaking ceremony February 5 signaled the larger President’s and Trustees’ dining rooms, start of an ambitious construction and remodeling each with partitions for greater seating flexibility. project for a focal point of campus: the Schwitzer (The existing versions of those dining rooms Student Center. When the project is complete by will be transformed into a student lounge.) year’s end, a 48,000-square-foot, three-story addition You can see a picture from the Schwitzer Student will grace the northeast end of the building, and Center groundbreaking, and follow all of the existing dining and gathering areas will have campus construction news as it develops, at been completely reconfigured and updated. www.uindy.edu/growth. The Schwitzer project is among a number of physical changes that will take place over the Interior makeover complete by next few years as UIndy continues to focus fall semester 2008 on providing the highest-quality academic, recreational, and social experience for students. New addition to be complete by the end of 2008 An overhaul of the library, a new residence hall, and a student athletics and recreational facility General contractor: also are on the drawing board, while the chief F. A. Wilhelm Construction Co. Inc. thoroughfare through campus, Hanna Avenue, is Architects: Odle McGuire Shook scheduled for a major safety and design upgrade.

8 PORTICO spring 2008 Schwitzer to be expanded Renovation to enhance the student experience

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alumni.uindy.edu 9 Saving the world inch by inch

10 PORTICO spring 2008 As part of a Spring Term class last year, two Opportunities for teachers: classroom UIndy Honors College students traveled to Kpain, visits, textbook donations Liberia, to help a community build a six-classroom “Also, we are collecting sets of textbooks to send schoolhouse (Portico, Fall 2007). over. The materials available to students and For 21 days, Lydia Fischer, Lyndsay McBride, teachers are really lacking, so if any of you have and a group of their fellow students, led by history used textbooks that you would like to donate, professor Dr. Charlie Guthrie, immersed themselves contact us. We would love to make connections in a different country and a different way of life. with schools when they replace entire sets of K-12 With no running water and no electricity, Lydia textbooks so we can send over the used books.” and Lyndsay helped the townspeople construct a Lindsay and Lydia have begun making school, literally with their bare hands. But, more presentations in classrooms and are eager for the importantly, they lived among the people of opportunity to address both teachers and students. Kpain, getting to know them and discovering new “Teachers: I also want to let you know that friendships—and then went the extra mile. Lyndsay and I would love to come talk at your Lots of college students might travel school,” Lydia says. “We have one schoolwide internationally on service projects, but Lydia, now fundraiser set up already and think it is a great a junior, and Lyndsay, a senior, wanted to go the idea: ‘Education for education.’ By talking to the extra mile and continue helping even after their students about Liberian history and what the trip return home. was like, we hope to widen their world view. “They may have a building, but they still need “And more than that, we want to inspire kids books and scholarship money,” Lydia says. to know that they can take action and change So they created Inches International, a things! You don’t have to be Bill Gates or Mother nonprofit organization that supports education Theresa. You can just be a college kid who went on efforts in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Both art a trip and had an idea. majors, they designed a metal bracelet based on “Feel free to check out our Web site or contact their theme of helping people—one inch at a time. me with questions or for more information!” “Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start To learn more about the project, discuss the when there is so much to do. It makes you feel possibility of a visit with Lyndsay and Lydia, or helpless,” Lydia says. “But what we learned from obtain your own Inches International bracelet in the trip is that even small efforts count. That’s the support of the cause of education in West Africa, concept behind Inches International. Even if we can’t visit www.inchesinternational.org or write do really big things, we can still work ‘in inches.’” [email protected], or contact The bracelets come in nine colors with inch Lydia directly at [email protected]. Meanwhile, markings along with the Inches International just turn the page for more. logo—to “remind the wearer that big things are accomplished in small steps”—and cost $5 each. “It takes only 20 bracelets to put one child in school for a year,” Lydia says.

alumni.uindy.edu 11 Spring Term trip to Liberia is life-changing

by Lydia Fischer

When I signed up to go to Africa, I suspected it that existed before I stepped off the plane.I t was might be a life-changing experience. I mean, how more than the gratitude expressed by the people. It could it not be? Seeing something in a book and was more than the African music and the African seeing something outside your bedroom window dancing and the African children. What I think ‘If you have come are totally different experiences. was so powerful about this trip was the sense of to help me you I had the opportunity to travel for three purpose I got every day when I woke up, and the are wasting your weeks to the country of Liberia, on the West satisfaction I felt every night before I went to bed. time, but if you Coast of Africa, as a Spring Term trip to help Education is one of the most powerful things a have come because build a schoolhouse. We went to the village of person can have, and I got to help build a school that Kpain. Every day we would wake up and walk will facilitate education in a country that couldn’t your liberation out to the worksite, where we’d carry bricks, mix be hungrier for it. This trip was more than seeing is bound up with mortar, and level floors with dirt moved and poverty and suffering—it was feeling likeI was mine, then let shoveled by hand. We worked together with the changing it. Idealism is contagious and consuming. us work together’ local Liberians to construct a building using tools Before we left, our group leader and professor, no more advanced than a hammer and saw. Dr. Guthrie, showed us a quote: ‘If you have come The connections we made at the worksite to help me you are wasting your time, but if you continued in the evenings and weekends. We’d have come because your liberation is bound up usually work until five, and then, after dinner, with mine, then let us work together.’ we’d spend time in the village talking and What was so powerful about this trip was hanging out with the locals. Reading about a place learning that my purpose is tied up in the lives of and studying the history of a country, although the people around me. This trip wasn’t about going important, do not compare to actual experience! to another country and trying to bring them up I’ve been thinking about what specifically to my level of living. It’s not about pity. It’s about made this trip so powerful. It was more than seeing knowing that our purposes are the same—that by real Third World poverty for the first time; I knew living for each other, we are living for ourselves.

12 PORTICO spring 2008 International opportunities

UIndy students have many options for inter- national study and travel.

“We work hard to find opportunities that appeal to all types of students,” explains Mimi Chase, director of UIndy’s International Division. “We’re trying to make it available to any student who has a desire to study abroad, and we’re also trying to approach students who haven’t thought about it before.”

There are Spring Term trips, programs in ‘A guy wearing a fork’ Athens and Belize, and exchange programs leads to Inches International in Ireland and South Africa. UIndy belongs to the College Consortium by Lyndsay McBride for International Studies, too, with 60 programs in Lydia and I came back from this trip feeling the We continued to talk about this concept of a 29 countries. same way. Going on this trip helped us understand ruler as a bracelet around your wrist for the next how great the needs are in a community on the few minutes as we were walking to class. Days Chase and the staff other side of world. Going to Africa inspired me to later, I still couldn’t get the idea out of my mind. of the International want to change the world, even if it was student by That one, small, half-joking idea led to the project Division encourage student in West Africa. we have started called Inches International, a all students to think We knew we wanted to do something about nonprofit organization that raises funds for the about studying abroad. what the people in Liberia still needed, so we education of students in Liberia. We are selling “It’s a transformative decided to work together on something that could bracelets we designed based on rulers to raise experience that offers accomplish our goals. We came back from our trip money for kids in West Africa. opportunities not only with the determination to do something more with Education is the first step in changing a life or for personal growth, but what we started in Liberia. We’d helped build a rebuilding a nation. And we wanted to help. We’ve also for global aware- school for the students of Kpain to attend, but there started this project. We’ve turned our ideas into ness,” she explains. “It is were no textbooks and minimal supplies for them reality. Each child counts, and, inch by inch, we a vital component of a to use. Many children were still unable to come up can go far in giving kids the opportunity to learn. university education.” with the $75 it takes to go to school for a year. Our inspiration came to us on a random day Learn more as Lydia and I were walking back from class. Lydia was discussing a movie she’d seen where this guy For a brief timeline on was wearing a fork around his wrist. She thought ‘Education is the first step in changing Liberia compiled by it was so cool that he turned a fork, a common a life or rebuilding a nation. And we Dr. Charlie Guthrie, object, into a bracelet. wanted to help’ visit Alumni Central But what if it had meaning? What if we (alumni.uindy.edu). wore a pen or a ruler around our wrist in support of education?

alumni.uindy.edu 13 UIndy tapped for national teacher recruitment initiative

Master’s fellowships to encourage top graduates to pursue education careers

The University of Indianapolis is one of just change as math or science majors. Fellows will four universities selected for the kickoff of an receive $30,000 stipends for a year-long master’s unprecedented national program designed to degree program, after which they must teach steer talented college graduates into long-term math or science for at least three years in high- careers as teachers. need urban or rural Indiana schools.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship The fellowships will make teaching careers more Foundation has selected Indiana for the start appealing to graduates who often seek jobs in of its 50-state strategy, and Lilly Endowment higher-paying fields, and they will help attract Inc. has pledged more than $10 million talented college graduates to Indiana, where one- to launch the program. third of the current teachers are eligible to retire within five years. The Indiana program initially UIndy is the only independent institution among will prepare 80 new math and science teachers the initial participants, which include Purdue each year—approximately one-fourth of the total University, Ball State University, and Indiana number of Indiana teachers now entering those University-Purdue University Indianapolis. fields—with a goal of expanding to 400 per year. The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching The University of Indianapolis and other Fellowship program was announced at a participating universities have pledged to December news conference in Indianapolis reevaluate and enhance teacher education by Gov. Mitch Daniels and officials from the curriculums, study new leadership models, endowment, the New Jersey-based foundation, expand partnerships and mentoring in high- and the participating universities. need schools, and evaluate their graduates. “UIndy’s selection for this program reflects UIndy’s math, science, and education faculty will the solid reputation of our School of Education collaborate in mentoring the Woodrow Wilson and the school reform efforts led by our Center fellows, and its curriculum changes will be of Excellence in Leadership of Learning,” UIndy informed by the innovative school reform models President Beverley Pitts said. “We look forward UIndy has helped promote in Indiana, such as to the growth of this exciting initiative. Indiana the New Technology High School concept. needs to put more of its brightest minds in For more information on the Woodrow Wilson the classroom.” National Fellowship Foundation’s national and The Indiana fellowships are aimed at college Indiana initiatives, visit http://www.woodrow. seniors and at graduates who have outstanding org/newsroom/index.php. undergraduate records and are seeking a career

14 PORTICO spring 2008 Scholarly pursuits

Anthropology Center for Aging & Community Faculty publish reference CAC launches Collaborative work on burned human remains Conference on Aging A primary reference source for forensic anthropologists and In February the CAC and its 14 partner organizations from archeologists was published this spring, titled The Analysis of around the state celebrated the success of the first Indiana Burned Human Remains. The book is described as a “unique Collaborative Conference on Aging. Geared for professionals reference [that] provides a primary source for osteologists from a variety of disciplines who work with and on behalf and the medical/legal community for the understanding of of older adults, the conference offered tracks in community burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts.” partnerships, health and wellness, and senior living It is intended for an international audience of researchers in environments. Former Indiana first lady Judy O’Bannon bone biology, forensic anthropology, and endocrinology and served as honorary chair for the inaugural event. has contributors from around the U.S., Great Britain, and Center for Aging & Community associate professor Dr. Germany. Dr. Chris Schmidt (interim Anthropology chair) Jacquelyn Frank published an article in the December is coeditor of the work with Steven Symes of Mercyhurst 2007 issue of the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & College. It includes chapters written by UIndy faculty, Other Dementias. Her research on Alzheimer’s caregivers was including Dr. Greg Reinhardt, Jeremy Beach, and Dr. reported in “Evidence for Grief as the Major Barrier Faced Steve Nawrocki, and students Amanda (Baker) Bontrager, by Alzheimer’s Caregivers: A Quantitative Analysis.” She Tammy Greene ’97, and Rachel Lockhart ’07. also presented a poster session at the American Society on Aging national conference: “Collaborating on a Statewide Athletic Training Alzheimer’s Family Caregiver Study: The Process, Progress and Findings from a Researcher-Practitioner Partnership.” UIndy well represented in journal (See page 24.) Dr. Christine Lauber, along with Dr. Jeffrey Wimer (Millersville University), published “Motivating the Clinical Games can be a significant tool in keeping the mind sharp as Helen Dillon Instructor” in Athletic Therapy Today. we age. Senior Fellow presented “Brain Fitness: It’s a New Game” to the Indianapolis Continuity of Care Dr. Katherine Newsham published the article Association. As part of its ongoing IN Place series, UIndy’s “Accommodations for athletic training students with hearing CAC will sponsor brain fitness presentations in Indianapolis loss” in Athletic Therapy Today.H er presentation “Gait and Wabash, Indiana, on May 15. For more information, visit velocity as a predictor of continued independent living” http://cac.uindy.edu. was accepted for presentation at the Indiana Collaborative Jennifer Bachman Conference on Aging, a conference cosponsored by the Dillon and CAC senior projects director University of Indianapolis Center for Aging and Community. were tapped by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging to serve as reviewers of Athletic Training students Carl Palma and Meghan applications for a federally funded Naturally Occurring Sweeney and graduate assistant Beth Panwitz presented Retirement Communities program. an oral case study, “Rehabilitation Following the Kidner Donna Konradi Procedure in a Collegiate Female Soccer Athlete,” at the Also in February, associate professor Dr. Indiana Athletic Trainers’ Association fall symposium presented “Barriers and Encouragements to Accepting in October. This case study also was accepted as a poster Community Services as Perceived by Community-Residing presentation at the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association Older Adults: A University and Senior Center Service Agency annual meeting and symposium in March 2008. Research Study Collaboration” at the Annual Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual meeting and educational leadership conference.

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Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning State’s Early College, New Tech schools get big boost from CELL CELL continues to expand the Indiana Early College and New Technology High School networks through a partnership with the Indiana governor’s office. Seven Early College and three New Technology high schools are open in Indiana with an additional 17 schools in the development stages. CELL recently led site visits to New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, and California to allow schools and community members the opportunity to explore these unique school designs. The Wheeler Arts Center, 1035 East Sanders Street CELL has received a $35,000 grant from the Indianapolis Foundation to support the Indiana Education Policy exhibit, enjoy puppet performances presented by the Melchior Fellowship Program. The Indiana EPFP is a 10-month Marionettes, and sample wines from the Mass Ave Wine professional development initiative to build leadership Shoppe, as well as listen to live music by local musicians. capacity and develop more in-depth knowledge and understanding of key local, state, and federal policy issues The Community Programs Center also hosted its second to improve education throughout the state. Applications for semiannual Service-Learning Community Partnership fair the program are being accepted. For more information, visit on January 17. The fair was an opportunity for students http://cell.uindy.edu/transformingeducation/INEPFP.php. who needed service-learning projects for curriculum requirements or volunteerism to meet representatives from Senior fellow Brandon Cosby ’95 served as the keynote 22 different organizations and to sign up for community presenter at the Indianapolis Education Association’s 35th engagement opportunities. annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards luncheon.

English Community Programs Faculty scholarship evident Wheeler Arts Center opens in journals, anthologies its doors to community Dr. Kyoko Amano interviewed writer Ruth Ozeki as part The Community Programs Center hosted another successful of UIndy’s Kellogg Writers Series in 2005, and her interview Wheeler Winter Open House on December 7 to celebrate article has been published in the spring 2008 issue Glimmer art, music, and theatre. The Wheeler Arts Community is Train Stories. Dr. Amano traveled to Louisville, Ky., with the result of a unique collaboration between the University students Tracie Smith, Brandon Ford, Sara Wright, of Indianapolis and the Southeast Neighborhoods of and Rachel Thompson to attend the Sigma Tau Delta Indianapolis. Wheeler Arts occupies what was once an International English Honor Society convention, where Smith abandoned carburetor factory in Fountain Square, three miles and Ford presented papers and Sara Wright chaired a session. north of campus. The building now contains 36 artist studio/ Dr. Amano served as a faculty moderator for a session. loft apartments housing professional painters, sculptors, writer, musicians, and dancers. Nearly 20 of Wheeler’s Dr. Jennifer Drake’s essay “African American Literature and residents opened up their studio spaces as more than a dozen the Post-Soul Aesthetic: Teaching the Poetry of Kevin Young guest artists decked the halls with their work. Attendees and Elizabeth Alexander” will be published in an anthology had the opportunity to see a collaborative poetry and art on emerging African American writers coming from

16 PORTICO spring 2008 Cambridge Scholars Press in fall 2008. Dr. Drake also serves Dr. Kathy Martin ’90 ’03 was the local coordinator and an as coordinator of the college readiness program she created invited speaker on pediatric orthotics for the APTA’s Section for Decatur Discovery Academy, a charter high school run by on Pediatrics Advanced Clinical Practice course held in Decatur Township MSD in Indianapolis. She contributed six Indianapolis in November. essays on individual poets to the African American National Dr. Mary Ann Shurig ’05 served as the faculty advisor for Biography, published by Oxford University Press in February. an Inquiry course project that sent a delegation of four entry- Professor emerita Dr. Charlotte Templin has written an level Doctor of Physical Therapy Program students to the article titled “Discourses in Dialogue: The Reception of Alix Republic of China in May 2007. The students, Dr. Chris Kates Shulman’s The Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.” The Petrosino, and Dr. Shurig all were involved in the successful article appears in a collection titled New Directions in American application process for UIndy’s Inquiry grant. Reception Study, published by Oxford University Press. While in China the delegation visited Shandong Sports University, Zhejiang Medical College, and Shanghi Normal Honors College College. At each institution, the parties were able to interact and exchange Western and Eastern approaches to physical College announces largest rehabilitation. The UIndy group gained insight into how some class of scholars Eastern medicine approaches may be integrated into Western For highly motivated and creative students, the Honors clinical practice. College offers classes, independent study, research under During this project, KSPT collaborated with Dr. Phylis Lan guidance of a faculty member, and leadership and service Lin of UIndy’s Sociology department. Future collaborations opportunities. This year saw its largest incoming class of could benefit the University by creating opportunities for students: 43 students, representing 17 majors from four students to study abroad and for faculty to pursue scholarly UIndy colleges and schools with an average GPA of 3.7. The activities. In May 2008 Dr. Shurig will take three students to students were selected based on the strength of their academic Harbin Medical College in China. record, faculty recommendations, and application essay. In November Dr. Shurig taught “Myofascial Release Techniques” in India at the Center for Chronic Disease and Krannert School of Physical Therapy Rehabilitation, teaching more than 200 students from 10 President’s Council leadership universities in five cities. award honors community work Dr. Julie Gahimer ’85 has been honored for her work at Music Baxter YMCA in Indianapolis, receiving a 2007 Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Physical Blogs, wikis, podcasts Fitness and Sports. The award is given annually to a handful of introduced to music classes those who improve the lives of individuals in their communities Dr. George Weimer was invited in February to present two by providing or enhancing opportunities to engage in sports, sessions dealing with music technology, “Web 2.0: Fab or Fad,” physical activities, or fitness-related programs. at the Kentucky Music Educators Association conference in Louisville. Weimer has developed innovative ways to integrate Dr. Gahimer also presented “A Health and Wellness Program for new Internet tools into his college classes. His students use Community-Dwelling Individuals with Neurological Conditions blogs, wikis, and podcasts along with other highly interactive Conducted by Doctoral Physical Therapy Students” at the second Web tools in his music and teacher education classes. Web 2.0 annual International Service Learning Symposium on May 15, tools allow students to become authors and collaborators who 2007. In June 2007 she gave a three-hour presentation for PT share their work on the Internet. 2007 in Denver, Colo., on evidence-based practice, titled “Six Easy Steps for Accessing and Applying the Evidence to Clinical Decisions in Neurological Rehabilitation.”

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Jacklyn Chan ’99 has been invited by Shanghai Normal Physical Plant University to be a visiting scholar this summer. She will be performing a piano trio concert with the SHNU faculty Looking for ways to ‘clean green’ artists and giving lectures on piano pedagogy. At UIndy on March 10–11, 2008, Physical Plant director Ken Piepenbrink and housekeeping director Brenda Pedigo Philosophy & Religion hosted the International Executive Housekeeping Association conference on Green Cleaning, Infection Control, Scholarship hits the road Disinfection/Decontamination with Certification. CEO Dr. Peter Murphy presented a coauthored paper, “An Beth Resigner of the International Executive Housekeeping Evidence Puzzle,” at the Eastern Division Meetings of Association attended along with representatives from many the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore in universities, colleges, and school districts from Indiana, December. In October he presented a paper titled “The Kentucky, and Ohio. Brenda Pedigo has been leading the Hebrews and the Hellenists” for the Westar Institute’s Acts University’s housekeeping staff in testing cleaning products Seminar in Santa Rosa, Calif. Dr. Murphy also was one of that minimize environmental impact and making the switch the coleaders of a “Jesus Seminar on the Road” in Alexandria, when the results are comparable. Some green products, she Va., in November. discovered, are actually superior to traditional cleaners.

School for Adult Learning SAL anniversary celebrates 10 years, 10 faces, 10 stories The year 2008 marks the School for Adult Learning’s tenth anniversary of granting degrees. Its accelerated degree program has helped hundreds of adults earn a bachelor’s degree. SAL’s goal is to provide adult learners with a flexible, accessible, and accelerated path to a college degree.

To celebrate its milestone, SAL chose the theme “10 Years, 10 Faces, 10 Stories,” and is featuring 10 alumni to represent adult students who come from all walks of life and all sorts of circumstances. The 10 faces are shown above; to read their stories, visit http://sal.uindy.edu and click on the anniversary logo.

SAL began its year-long celebration with a kickoff event at Pack-the-House Night on January 12. Activities include a dinner for SAL alumni and current students on Friday, April 11.

Also in School for Adult Learning news: In November Laurie Daeger, SAL marketing coordinator, presented “Integrated Marketing Strategy to Increase Enrollment: Real Success” at the Commission for Accelerated Programs conference in San Francisco. The roundtable presentation outlined the steps SAL has taken to increase its enrollment.

Photos (left to right): Rebecca Ketchum ’01, Jonah Odum ’03, Gary Worland ’01, Diana Sturm ’03, Cindy Bell ’07, Gerry Conklin ’06, Chris Renick ’07, Mary Lindop ’07, Octavia Banner ’06, Dan Young ’08.

18 PORTICO spring 2008 School of Business The 2007 Mary Wells Scholarship sponsored by the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Society of Women ‘Indiana Positioned for Economic Accountants was won by accounting major Carol Thompson. Miracle—Starting in High School It is the third win in four years by a UIndy student. Algebra Classrooms’ Steve Tokar ’05 has been appointed director of Graduate Dr. Leslie Gardner published an article with Z. Bousum, Business Programs. The former director, Dr. Matthew Will, L. Gausman, and K. Smith called “Indiana Is Positioned for has transitioned to more classroom teaching in the finance an Economic Miracle—Starting in High School Algebra field and will serve as director of External Relations. In its Classrooms” in the Indiana Mathematics Teacher. Dr. Gardner first semester, the new undergraduate major in finance is presented on the same topic at the Conference on Indiana’s already the second-most popular among incoming freshmen. Future, sponsored by UIndy’s Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning. In September she presented “Why Dr. Will was elected secretary of the Rotary Club of Your Students Should Write” at Baker College, Muskegon, Indianapolis, one of the largest Rotary clubs in the world, Mich. In October she presented “Is Mathematics Profitable? and eventually will serve as its president. He also wrote a Activities that Connect Math to High-Paying Careers” at test bank to accompany a new derivatives textbook the annual conference of the Indiana Council of Teachers of published by Addison Wesley. Mathematics in Indianapolis. November took Dr. Gardner to Phoenix, where she presented “Who Controls the Bullwhip?” at School of Education the Decision Sciences Institute annual meeting. She presented in November at the Supply Chain Management Academy, Lessons for classroom teachers Indiana Business, Marketing, and Information Technology available online professional development conference held in Indianapolis. In collaboration with area teachers, Deb Sachs ’78, director Dr. Gardner also wrote “Using a Spreadsheet for Active of the Office of Professional Development, wrote three sets Learning Projects in Operations Management,” to appear of three lessons to accompany “Indiana Expeditions,” a new in INFORMS Transactions on Education; an article published WFYI public television series program based on everyday with T. Osburn and T. Pearson titled “Strategic Alliances for science. The lessons are designed for use by classroom teachers ASQ Sections,” printed in Quality Progress; and an article as a supplement to the science content presented in each published with Jeff Adams and Jerry Flatto titled “Analyzing Indiana Expeditions episode, and are available on the WFYI Supply Chain Performance Using Beer Game Spreadsheet Web site at http://www.wfyi.org/indianaExpeditions.asp. Simulations,” that was printed in Operations Management Dr. Lynne Weisenbach has been selected by Phi Delta Kappa Education Review. to serve on the selection panel for the PDK Outstanding Dr. Kathy Bohley ’91 ’92 ’94 was nominated for the Education Dissertation award, the only dean selected from a American Marketing Association Educator Award. Dr. private university. Others selected include the deans of Texas Bohley has taught at the University since 1996, where she A & M, Eastern Michigan, and Wisconsin-Madison. serves as an associate professor of marketing in the School of Business. In addition, she is a key professor in the University’s School of Nursing MBA program and corporate cohort classes.

Dr. Bohley’s article “What Global Businesses Really Want For New degree to help career changers Academia: An Interdisciplinary Program” was published in the become nurse leaders December 2007 issue of International Business and Economics The School is launching an accelerated program for those Research Journal. The article was written as a follow-up to a visit who wish to enter the nursing profession but have a bachelor’s to Vietnam, where she gathered information regarding global degree in another field. The program compresses the courses businesses’ search for best practices. of study into a 27-month curriculum to produce nurses highly prepared for leadership after gaining patient care experience.

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After the initial BS coursework leading to registered nurse School of Occupational Therapy licensure, candidates will take all the master’s work online. The program should appeal to professionals who feel stalled OT hosts upper-extremities in their careers and are attracted to the healthcare profession. conference for state therapists Contact Tondra Crum, (317) 788-2128 or [email protected]. The School of Occupational Therapy hosted the INHand Dr. Connie Wilson and Dr. Jackie King presented conference in November with 35 clinicians and students from “Addressing Nursing Workforce Needs: An Accelerated all areas of the state attending. Dr. Lucinda Dale presented Second Degree to MSN for Non-Nurses” in February at the a session on “Measurement of Outcomes for Individuals Masters Education Conference in Newport Beach, Calif. with Upper-Extremity Impairments,” including the process and results of implementing measurement of outcomes at UIndy’s Midwifery track—Indiana’s first and only—is Hendricks Regional Health. Dr. Dale also presented a session hosting a conference with the Indiana American College of at the IOTA state fall conference titled “Interpreting Research Nurse-Midwives, “Expanding Choices; Enriching Careers,” for Use in Clinical Practice.” with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses on April 11 at the University. Dr. Dale and Dr. Rebecca Barton were featured in the Winter 2008 issue of Indiana Therapists Quarterly. They Barb Winningham and Jody Perez and student nurse- commented on the importance of ergonomics in relation to midwives Becky Kuehn, Carie Mondero, Gretchen populations’ daily participation in society, which occupational Jenkins, and Elayne Steindorf took a field trip to New therapists evaluate regularly. York City in October. They visited the Morris Heights Birth Center in the Bronx and the Maternity Center Association, Dr. Kate E. DeCleene published an article, “Sound Therapy: and attended the “75 Years of Continuous Midwifery How Did It Evolve and What Is Occupational Therapy’s Education” Symposium at SUNY. The group—the third Role?” in the December American Occupational Therapy graduating class—celebrated completing the program in Association School System Special Interest Quarterly. December with a ceremony at the Stierwalt Alumni House. Fengyi Kuo MA OTR has earned certification as a psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner through the U.S. Midwifery program aims to improve health of babies & mothers Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. CPRP is an examination-based credential that tests competencies in seven research-based practice domains identified and validated through rigorous research. She also chaired the University Multicultural Affairs committee to bring UIndy alumnus Samuel Pieh ’72 back to campus in celebration of the 2008 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.

Dr. Susan Meyers will retire as director of Advanced Studies in June. Her replacement, Jennifer Fogo ’85, has been named interim director of the Occupational Therapy Postprofessional Programs. Jennifer Fogo also participated in a week of service with the University of Indianapolis to work with the Appalachia Service Project over Christmas break and has received a summer research grant to complete research on handwriting instruction in preschools and early elementary schools.

Christy Troxell completed an MS in Health Informatics from the University of Missouri; her thesis addressed the information needs required to deliver evidence-based practice among occupational therapists in Indiana who are AOTA members.

20 PORTICO spring 2008 Child Welfare School of Psychological Sciences , the journal of the Child Welfare League of America. Dr. Wall also was the lead author on a publication, Faculty publishing extensively published in FFTA Focus in November, describing the in encyclopedias, journals development and maintenance of a state-wide outcomes program monitoring the effectiveness of out-of-home care. Dr. Victoria Bedford will have two encyclopedia entries Coauthors included Dr. S. M. Koch, adjunct faculty published in February. In the Encyclopedia of the Life member in the School for Psychological Sciences. Course and Human Development, her entry is titled “Adult Sibling Relations in a Life Course Perspective.” Dr. Koch and Dr. Wall, who served as lead author, prepared In the Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, her entry a technical report brief for IARCCA, an Association of is titled “Relationships Between Adult Siblings.” Children and Family Services. The report addressed risk factors and outcomes of youth entering out-of-home care Dr. David L. Downing was elected president of Section programs who have a parent with a history of incarceration. V (Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Clinicians) of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis. He With Drs. Ellen Miller, David Wall, and Graham Toft, also was elected president of the International Federation Dr. Jacqueline Wall was a coauthor on a presentation made for Psychoanalytic Education for 2007. His address, “Why by Dr. Barry Spiker at the National Council on Aging and We Fight: On Certain Elements of Psychoanalytical Culture American Society of Aging joint conference in March. The and Knowledge,” was delivered at the annual conference presentation was based on work done through UIndy’s Center in Toronto. Dr. Downing also was appointed dean of the for Aging & Community on organizational perceptions of Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, where he is a older workers across the state of Indiana. supervising psychoanalyst and member of the core faculty.

In December Dr. Downing presented a paper, “A Taiwan: From Within the Mist Psychoanalytical Ethos of Practice” as part of an invited exhibition sprawls across three panel at the Future of Psychoanalytic Education Conference in New York. Dr. Downing developed an invited panel in his campus galleries capacity as cochair of the APA’s Division of Psychoanalysis. Last fall UIndy’s Asian Programs Office and the Department of Art A User Friendly Guide to Object Relations Dr. Downing’s book and Design, in conjunction with the Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Self-Psychology, of which he is coauthor, has been accepted and the Culture Division of the Taipei Economic and Culture Office, for publication by the University of Indianapolis Press. His hosted one of its largest touring exhibitions in recent years. “Taiwan paper “Paranoiac Visions and Neo-Realities in the Recent From Within the Mist” occupied three galleries on campus—the Cinema: Reflections on Tausk’s I‘ nfluencing Machine in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, the Leah Ransburg Psychoanalytic Review Schizophrenia,’” was published in the . Art Gallery in Good Hall, and the Au Ho-nien Museum in Schwitzer A paper by Dr. Margie Keaton ’03 ’06, “Personality Disorder Student Center—and included many large-scale pieces. Conceptualization in Serial Murder: A Methodological The exhibition showcased avant-garde work by 21 Taiwanese Critique and Proposal” is to be published in the American artists in media that included painting, photography, digital imagery, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. sculpture, printmaking, video, and multimedia installations. The artists addressed themes of commercialization, Dr. Jacqueline Remondet Wall participated in the urbanization, Westernization, and the tension between the post- preparation and submission of two articles related to industrial world and the cultural traditions of their homeland. The placement of children in out-of-home care systems. One massive and varied international show was part of a limited North article addresses the disproportional representation of American tour and featured many of the rising stars in Taiwanese African-American children within the child welfare system contemporary art. in Indiana and efforts being taken by persons in the state to Other stops on the North American tour were Sioux Falls, S.D., address the issue. The manuscript, on which she served as Vancouver, B.C., and Columbus, Ga. a coauthor, was published in a special March 2008 issue of

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Social Work Lin honored with interfaith award Dr. Phylis Lan Lin has been awarded the 2008 Jerry Israel Interfaith Service Award in recognition of her life’s work in human services, which has transcended various disciplines including Art, Music, Sociology, and Social Work. UIndy’s Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Programs established the award, given annually to an individual who continues the legacy of the president-emeritus of fostering interfaith and intercultural understanding across campus.

Dr. Lin was the keynote speaker at the Ningbo (China) Sociological Association conference on January 5, 2008. Dr. Lin also presented a paper titled “Enhancing Taiwan-U.S. Relations via Art” at the International Conference on Taiwan-U.S. Relations in Los Angeles, Calif., in November.

On March 26 the social work program held a campuswide “Take a Senior to Lunch Day.” Students invited senior citizens to lunch and invited staff of agencies that work with seniors to come to campus as well.

Theatre Students shine in regional festival The Department of Theatre recently attended the Kennedy Center American College Region III TheaterF estival in Milwaukee, which celebrates outstanding achievements in student performance, directing, design rendering, and teamwork. UIndy’s 2007 production of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things was selected to showcase during the festival.

Two Irene Ryan competitors from UIndy and their acting partners advanced to the final round of 16 in the festival from a pool of nearly 300 competitors: Jeffrey Dalstrom and his partner, Kathryn Reinhardt, and Alex (Marcus) Oberheide and his partner, Chelsey Wood. Chelsea Anderson and her partner, Lucas Souder, Karla Carter and her partner, Stephanie Kucsera, and Ryan O’Shea and his partner, Emma Davis, also represented the University well. Jennifer Alexander coached UIndy’s competitors.

David West competed at the festival for the Barbizon Awards for Theatrical Design Excellence with his makeup design for the production of The Shape of Things. Drew Pastorek was cast in Like You, a one-act play; Jeffrey Senior Ryan O’Shea appearing as Evelyn in The Shape of Things

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Barnes ’00 conducted a workshop about theatre fringe also published an article in Eleftheroptypia on the topic festivals; and Jim Ream served as technical coordinator “The Management of Violence in International Relations.” and a member of the selection committee. He spoke in Vrilissia on the occasion of the liberation of Tripolis from the Turkish occupation. Jennifer Alexander directed the play Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck at Indianapolis Civic Theatre in October and The Athens campus and International Scientific and Inter- November, which also starred former theatre student Sam Fain. cultural Center organized a conference, “Women in Public Life—Women in Action.” The conference was held under the auspices of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO University Advancement and took place on November 10 at the UIndy Athens Cultural Center in Plaka. The mission of the Conference was University leads city’s “to foster a creative atmosphere where an inspired group of Great Indy Clean-up efforts professionals, social and legal experts in human and women’s rights, artists, and scientists could discuss women issues.” The University of Indianapolis is a founding member of the Gateway Business Alliance, a group dedicated to Dr. Susie Michailidis, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, improving the economic and civic life of the south side of and Ms. Niki Stavrou, lecturer of English, participated in Indianapolis (Portico, Spring 2007). One of the events the a conference entitled “Nikos Kazantzakis in his European University sponsors is the Great Indy Cleanup. Last year Dimension” in Würzburg, Germany, where she also delivered the University Heights neighborhood was spruced up; this a speech. Ms. Stavrou delivered a speech titled “Kazantzakian year, on April 26, UIndy will kick off a city-wide campaign Existentialism and Theology of the Future.” of neighborhood clean-ups. President Beverley Pitts will be joined by Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard, Southport The University of Indianapolis-Athens Camerata ensemble, mayor Rob Thoman, and Beech Grove mayor Joe Wright directed by Dr. Alexandros Halapsis, won first prize in the as they send 10,000 volunteers into neighborhoods around International Music Competition of Orchestral Art “Musical the city. Dr. David Wantz ’84, associate vice president for Youth of the Planet” in Moscow in September. Music student Corporate & Community Relations, serves on the Alliance Charalambos Karasavidis won third prize for violin solo. board and is chairing the kickoff event. UIndy-Athens is at the foot of the Acropolis and the Parthenon Carol Hatfield ’90, Conferences & Scheduling, is a member of Shilombish, which is releasing a new CD. The ensemble features Native American flute, vocals, guitar, percussion, and other instruments in a contemporary blend of musical styles.

Myla Edmond, Alumni Relations, was appointed to the Semester At Sea Alumni Association board of directors and will serve for three years. Semester At Sea is a nonprofit study- abroad program that enables students to take college courses while sailing around the world and is supported academically by the University of Virginia.

University of Indianapolis-Athens Conference on international violence marks UN charter signing The International Relations Department, chaired by professor Panayiotis Karafotias, organized a conference entitled “Violence in International Relations” on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the United Nations. Professor Karafotias

alumni.uindy.edu 23 Dementia study breaks new ground Grief, loss pose toughest hurdle for Alzheimer’s caregivers

“You are losing and The hardest part of caring for loved ones with first to document their prevalence. “The Alzheimer’s-type disorders is not the everyday fundamental barrier experienced by Alzheimer’s practical challenge, but rather the emotional caregivers appears to be a combination of grieving while you’re impact of losing the patients’ support and anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss, rather companionship as the disease robs them of their than hands-on care issues,” Frank says. providing the care, faculties, according to a recent UIndy study. The survey that is central to the study Dr. Jacquelyn Frank, an associate professor was administered at public events and through because Charlie isn’t with the Center for Aging & Community and the assistance of the Greater Indiana Chapter the Department of Anthropology, gathered of the Alzheimer’s Association. Most responses responses from more than 400 dementia to the “biggest barrier” question fell into five Charlie anymore” caregivers around Indiana, most of them spouses categories, including: and adult children of Alzheimer’s patients. The the patient’s difficult behavior and results point toward new avenues of service for need for hands-on care community-based support agencies. shortfalls in community and Frank’s study was published in the financial support American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other difficulties in communicating with Dementias and has since been noted by news relatives and medical professionals outlets from Australia to the United Kingdom. the caregiver’s loss of personal time ThoughF rank is continuing to analyze data and freedom. from the survey’s 100-plus items, she was struck immediately by the responses to this open- But the overwhelming sentiment among ended question: “What would you say is the the respondents involved the personal grief and biggest barrier you have faced as a caregiver?” loss they were experiencing in the midst of their Though the respondents’ language varied, many practical concerns. To Frank’s surprise, a computer analysis found that more than 80 many respondents sent personal notes and percent of them touched on a common theme: letters along with the questionnaire, noting “letting go of the person we used to know,” that they appreciated the opportunity to bring as one person wrote, or “watching your loved their feelings into the open. one slip away and forget who people are.” Even friends and family don’t always The comments illustrate two previously understand that dementia poses unique noted but seldom-studied phenomena seen in challenges, she says, and that adds to the sense those caring for the terminally ill. “Anticipatory of isolation and hopelessness many caregivers grief” is the pain of losing a loved one, felt in already face. advance of the patient’s death. “Ambiguous “You are losing and grieving while you’re loss” is the discordant feeling that comes from providing the care, because Charlie isn’t interacting with a patient who is physically Charlie anymore,” says Frank, who hopes alive but no longer seems present socially or the study results can be used to help design psychologically. new support and intervention programs for It’s not surprising that such effects would dementia caregivers. “These people need to be common among dementia caregivers, but know that feelings of grief and loss are normal, this study, funded by a University of Indi- and that other caregivers face the same anapolis Faculty Research Grant, is among the emotional difficulties.” —Scott Hall

24 PORTICO spring 2008 H onorar y degree recipients , Commencement speakers named

Commencement ceremonies at UIndy will feature the (1975–1982). He received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship University and his PhD from the State University of New Foundation (page 14) and the newly retired president of York at Buffalo. Martin University in Indianapolis. Christel DeHaan will speak at the undergraduate event on May 3 (page 6). The Rev. Fr. Boniface Hardin will receive the honorary doctor of humane letters degree on May 2. He is well known Arthur Levine will serve as speaker at the University’s in Indianapolis for his record of community service and the graduate ceremonies on May 2 and receive an honorary founding of Martin University, Indiana’s only predominantly doctor of humane letters degree. He is the sixth president black college. He served as its president for three decades. of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, he was president Father Hardin founded Martin University in 1977 and his and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia tenure was marked by significant growth and development. University. He also previously served as chair of the higher He is founder of the Martin Center, cofounder of the education program, chair of the Institute for Educational Indianapolis Sickle Cell Center, the Negro-Jewish Dialogue, Management, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate and the Human Relations Consortium, and founder and School of Education. director of Northwest Action Council. He has served as a consultant for Affirmative Action Programs and Training Dr. Levine is the author of many articles and reviews. of Affirmative Action Officers, locally and nationally, and He is most recently coauthor of When Hope and Fear Collide: as a member of the President Benjamin Harrison Home A Portrait of Today’s College Student. Among his other volumes Board of Directors, Indiana State Penal Reform Committee; are Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College; Higher the Mayor’s Task Force; and Board of Directors for the Learning in America; Shaping Higher Education’s Future; When Indianapolis Project against AIDS for Minorities. He Dreams and Heroes Died; A Portrait of Today’s College Students; also served as cochair of the Indianapolis Black Coalition Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum; Quest for Common Advocate of Reforms in Police Community Relations. Learning; Opportunity in Adversity; and Why Innovation Fails. Much of his research and writing in recent years has focused Father Hardin has been recognized often for community on increasing access to higher education and improving service. Named a Distinguished Alumnus by Saint Meinrad equity in the schools. Seminary in 1997, he has been named International Citizen of the Year by the International Center of Indianapolis, a Dr. Levine has received numerous honors, including a Living Legend by the Indiana Historical Society, and a Living Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, as well as Legend in Black by the Hoosier Minority Black Chamber of the American Council on Education’s Book of the Year award Commerce. He has also been awarded the Spirit of Justice (for Reform of Undergraduate Education), the Educational award from the Indiana Civil Rights Commission; the Press Association’s annual award for writing (three times), and Indiana Black Expo President Image Award; and the Scroll 17 honorary degrees. He serves on the boards of Blackboard, of Merit Award from the National Medical Association. Inc., DePaul University, and All Kinds of Minds. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Father Hardin holds a master of divinity degree from the St. Meinrad School of Theology and continued his studies at the Dr. Levine was also previously president of Bradford College University of Notre Dame School of Commerce. Honorary (1982–1989) and senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation degrees include doctorates from Christian Theological and Carnegie Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education Seminary and Indiana University.

alumni.uindy.edu 25 Zupancic clears path for Colts

A big heart and knack for making big deals helped Haughville kid become NFL success

By Dana Knight Those yeses lately have meant some big deals— [email protected] like negotiating the naming rights to the new Lucas November 21, 2007 Oil stadium, securing 12 founding partners, and selling out 140 suites and 7,000 club seats. Season Reprinted with permission. tickets are sold out, with 26,000 fans on a waiting list. And in recent months, Zupancic has started With a 25-inch neck and 20-inch biceps, signing sponsors, including Huntington Bank, Tom Zupancic [’78] can be, well, a bit for each gate in the new stadium. intimidating. Working out for him means There’s much to be done as a new sports squatting 850 pounds and bench-pressing 500. venue readies for opening and the Colts marketing Never fear. This massive guy is a softhearted staff does it with a passion that comes straight giver who never met a stranger. from the man in charge. That may be exactly why Zupancic is “I just love this stuff. We run a lot like a successful as senior vice president of sales and football team,” said Zupancic from his plush office marketing for the Indianapolis Colts: People (admittedly bigger than his first apartment). “We are drawn to him and, in turn, say yes a lot. set goals. We set deadlines, and we work hard.”

26 PORTICO spring 2008 Work ethic is exactly how Zupancic got to When Zupancic returned to Indianapolis, where he is today—the lead man selling a world someone else was coming to the city—the Colts. champion football team. On a whim, he sent a résumé for the position of strength and conditioning coach. After some The early days persistence (he sent the résumé via messenger several times), he got the job for $200 a week. Zupancic grew up in Haughville on Indianapolis’ He spent the next 15 years training and Westside, the youngest of four children in a coaching NFL athletes. blue-collar family. His father worked at Naval But in the meantime, the front office noticed Avionics, taught welding classes at night to something else about Zupancic: his business sense. ironworkers, and owned a roofing company. “Tom is a born wheeler and dealer, but he’s His mother cleaned offices. also very genuine,” said Pete Ward, senior executive It didn’t take long for the young Zupancic vice president with the Colts and Zupancic’s boss. to figure out what was important—work “He’s great at developing relationships.” and generosity. In 1999, Zupancic moved to the At 13, he signed on for a newspaper route. administrative side and worked his way up to When it came time to collect the first round of director of business development. When Ray payment, Zupancic took three buddies to help, Compton left his post as vice president of sales but came home with just half the money. and marketing in 2005, Zupancic took over. When she questioned the shortage, “He said, And what he has done in the past two years ‘Oh yeah, I had to treat the guys who helped has made people take notice. Not just within me collect,’” recalls his mother, Mary Zupancic. the organization, but outside as well. “That’s what he always did. He always shared. “Everybody in town knows who he is, and We didn’t have much, but we shared.” when we go to lunch, they recognize him,” said Early in life, Zupancic also found his Jay Souers, vice president of sponsorship sales for passion—athletics and strength. As a youngster, the Colts. “He is so cordial and takes the time to he created an obstacle course in the neighborhood act like he is their best friend whether he knows that he navigated each day. Jump a fence, climb an them or not.” apple tree, then scale another fence. He also was a regular at Hofmeister Gym, A people pleaser where he worked out religiously. “He would literally bang his head against the People are the heart of Zupancic’s mission. wall as he maxed out,” said Chuck O’Hara of the “He is so passionate about this franchise, Colts marketing team, who remembers watching this club, and particularly how we reach out to Zupancic as a child. “He was just that dedicated.” the community,” said O’Hara. After the Colts won the Super Bowl, it His climb was Zupancic who spearheaded a tour to 50 communities with the Lombardi trophy in tow. Dedication to what he loved catapulted He credits Colts owner Jim Irsay with the Zupancic up the ranks. belief that the trophy is the people’s trophy— After graduating from the University of so let them see it, touch it, and be a part of it. Indianapolis with a degree in physical education, On average, 2,500 people showed up for he opened his first gym, Zupancic’s Gym, in 1978. each stop. He, his father, and brother-in-law built all the “Our philosophy is to take our product equipment themselves. out to the people,” Zupancic said. For the next 10 years, he ran the gym, opened “It means a lot more to let you get a picture another in Greenfield, and continued his athletic with the kids with the trophy or a player than quests. In 1984, he went to the Olympic trials in to see us on a TV commercial ad.” wrestling and almost made the U.S. team.

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Four individuals, team inducted to UIndy Hall of Fame The University of Indianapolis Athletic Hall of Fame welcomed four individuals and one team as members as a part of its class of 2008. The four individual inductees included Paul Velez, Henry Easter, Gary Romesser, and Bill Tutterow, pictured (in order) at left, and the 1994 women’s swim team also was honored. Paul Velez, who lettered in football, baseball and wrestling at Indiana Central (now UIndy) in 1956, was the cocaptain of the school’s first wrestling team and aided in the organization of the program. The wrestling room in the Ruth Lilly Fitness Center is now named in his honor. At Indiana Central, Velez received the Walter Brenneman Sportsmanship Award in 1956, and, returned to the University as head wrestling coach six years after graduating. While at the helm of the program he started as an undergraduate, Velez compiled a record of 62-38 and led the Hounds to five conference and three Little State championships. Velez also coached the Greyhound football team, 1962–68. Outside of UIndy, Velez served as Franklin High School’s athletic director from 1958. He started the Grizzly Cubs’ wrestling program, serving as its first head coach. He continued in academics, serving as Greenwood Middle School’s principal, 1978–93. May 19, 2006, was proclaimed “Paul Velez Day” in the district and the circular drive at the school is now named in his honor. Velez was also a high school athletic official in three sports: baseball for six years, football for 25 years, and wrestling for 38 years. He also has served as a Greenwood city councilman and was inducted into the Indiana Wrestling Coaches Hall of Fame in 1979. Velez was also named UIndy athletics’ Person of the Year in 1990. Henry Easter won ten letters in four sports during his time at Indiana Central. He earned four letters in football and was a member of the 1961 conference championship football team. He was named an all-conference defensive lineman in 1961. Easter was a member of the conference championship baseball teams in 1958, 1959, and 1961, and a two-year member of the wrestling team. He was the wrestling squad’s co-captain during the 1960–61 season and a member of the squad that was Little State champions in 1960. Easter also lettered in golf during the 1960–61 year. After his days at Indiana Central, Easter is credited with starting the golf, football, and wrestling programs at Avon High School. He served as the head coach of all three programs for three years. He is also the originator of the career counseling programs at junior high schools in Indianapolis. Easter continued his career in education as the dean of boys at Howe High School for seven years, and then served as assistant principal at Broad Ripple High School for 17 years. Gary Romesser was a standout for the Greyhounds in cross country and track while at UIndy. He was named the cross country MVP in 1970, ’71, and ’72 and received All- Collegiate Conference honors in 1973. He also was named the cross country team’s Kelso Reid Mental Attitude Award winner in 1973 and was the squad’s cocaptain that year. As a harrier, he also was named All-NAIA District 21 in 1969. Romesser held cross country team records for four years, and was 23-30-1 in dual and triangular meets. On the track team, Romesser won four letters from 1969 to 1973. He won the Highest Point award in track from 1969 to 1972. He broke records in the one-, two-, and three-mile runs in 1973. His three-mile record time, 14:43.64, from that year still stands. Romesser is also a five-time overall winner and an eight-time master winner in the Indianapolis 500 Festival Marathon. He has also been included in the World Masters rankings from Runner’s World. Romesser was ranked 10th in 1997, eighth in 1996, and third in 1991.

28 PORTICO spring 2008 Bill Tutterow graduated from UIndy in coach for 36 years and was the head baseball 1969. He earned eight letters as a Greyhound, coach for 35 years. While at the helm of the four each in football and baseball. He was named baseball team, Tutterow compiled a record of the football team’s MVP in 1968 and the team’s 608-296 and led his team to 11 sectional and outstanding player in 1967. On the baseball field, regional championships. Tutterow was named team MVP in 1966, ’67, ’68, A 2005 IHSBCA Hall of Fame inductee, and ’69. He also earned all-conference accolades Tutterow was named UIndy Baseball Coach of Calendar in 1966, ’68, and ’69. He received the John Yeftich the Year in 1987, ’97, and ’99. The Martinsville Hitting Award in 1966 and 1968 and was named High School baseball field was renamed Tutterow June 27 (noon) to the NAIA District 21 team in 1969. Field in his honor in 2005. Greyhound Club Golf After leaving UIndy, Tutterow taught biology In addition to these individuals, the 1994 Outing, Otter Creek, and genetics science at Martinsville High School women’s swim team also was inducted into the for 39 years. He served as the Artesians’ football Hall of Fame. Columbus, Ind. July 31 (12:30 p.m.) Greyhound Highlights Angus Nicoson The University of Indianapolis served straight wins to open the season. Led by new Memorial Golf Outing, as proud host to two big tournaments head coach LeAnn Freeland, the Hounds Royal Oak Country Club in February and March. The Ruth Lilly were 13-1 at one point in the season as the Center pool was the scene for the 2008 team tracked down return trips to the GLVC To obtain an athletics Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic and NCAA tournaments. schedule or more John Venter Conference’s swimming and diving stepped in to lead the men’s information about the championships, and two weeks later, tennis team after George Adams resigned Greyhound Club or the Nicoson Hall was the stage for the NCAA as head coach in October. Venter is in events listed above, contact Division II Midwest Wrestling Regional. his sixth season at the helm of the UIndy Matt Donovan at (317)

For most of the 2007–08 wrestling season, women’s team, amassing an impressive 788-3359 or mdonovan@ Matt Irwin soph led Division II in wins. 84-54 (.609) record in that span. He’s uindy.edu. With his first win of the day at the Wheaton guided the team to three conference Invitational, senior Shane Perkey broke the championships and four berths in the UIndy wrestling career wins record. Greg NCAA national tournament. Venter has What’s the score? Matheis held the previous record of 133. been named Conference Coach of the Year Want to receive the The wrestlers were ranked in the top 15 in three times and once was named Region latest Greyhound scores? Division II for the entire 2007–08 season. Coach of the Year. You can now receive Shane Perkey spent most of the season as Senior Justin Barnard scored his 1,000th free text messages with the nation’s No. 1 or 2 133-pound wrestler, career point on a first-half bucket at the results of each while Mike Horton, Matt Irwin, and Kentucky Wesleyan. Only 14 other competition. Sign up by Lynn Panko also found themselves in the Greyhounds have scored 1,000 points and visiting the link below rankings at some point during the season. grabbed 500 rebounds in their careers. and selecting the sports Alex Arestis was named the GLIAC Male Head baseball coach Gary Vaught won that interest you. As Swimmer of the Year for his performance at his 600th career game February 10 in a soon as the final score of the league meet. The junior racked up five thrilling come-from-behind victory in the each contest is posted on wins at the championships and was part of season’s opening weekend. Trailing 11-3 the Web, you’ll receive three record-breaking performances. Arestis through five innings, the Greyhounds a text message update. erased a mark in the 200 freestyle, a record rallied to score 11 unanswered runs for a Sign up today at http:// that stood for 21 years, and helped the 400 14-11 win over West Georgia. athletics.uindy.edu/ and 800 freestyle relay squads to GLIAC Sports/general/2008/ record performances. Check the University of Indianapolis Athletics textscores.asp The UIndy women’s basketball team Web site at http://athletics.uindy.edu for up-to-the- smashed the school record by rattling off 11 minute Greyhound news.

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Indianapolis 500 Festival Alumni Trip to Ireland Mini-Marathon Alumni Tent September 12–20, 2008 (seven nights, May 3, 2008 nine days; Indianapolis & Chicago departures; Military Park, downtown Indianapolis other cities on request) Prerace bag storage, postrace reception, finisher photo Land program per person: $1,529 double/ triple occupancy (includes seven nights of first Participating in the 2008 Indianapolis 500 class accommodations, welcome reception, Irish Festival Mini-Marathon? Alumni, faculty, staff, breakfast daily, scenic transfer between Kilkenney students, families, and friends who are running, & Killarney, luggage handling, related tips, walking, or attending the Mini or 5K race are local tax, experienced Irish guide/driver, onsite invited to visit the Alumni Association tent in the Go Next program manager, comprehensive pre- rest and recovery area of Military Park. Register departure information) today at http://alumni.uindy.edu, then check out Airfare program per person (Indianapolis & Chicago who else will be there. All alumni will receive a departure): $1,199. Inquire about airfare prices free UIndy hat, sponsored by Gray Goat Sports, from other cities (includes round-trip airline service while supplies last. to Shannon, Ireland, transfers between airport UIndy Indianapolis and & hotels via deluxe motor coach, related luggage UIndy-Athens Commencements handling, tipping. All airline fuel surcharges, domestic & foreign government airport departure May 2 & 3, 2008 (see page 25); June 4, 2008 taxes & security fees in effect as of 12-1-07) These three ceremonies will bring more than 1,000 newly minted alumni into the Alumni Night at Victory Field, Association. In Indianapolis, graduate degrees home of the Indianapolis Indians are being conferred on May 2, followed by the undergraduate ceremony on May 3 at 2 p.m. The Athens campus will hold its ceremony June 4, conferring University of Indianapolis degrees.

A view of the Irish coastline

Friday, August 29, 2008 7:15 p.m. Indians vs. Louisville 7:30–9 p.m. picnic, left field outdoor pavilion $20 adults, $12 kids ages 3 to 12 (under 3 are free) Fireworks show after the game! Join us downtown at beautiful Victory Field for a picnic and baseball game. This outing is a favorite among alumni of all ages and will sell out, so reserve your seats early. Fees include an outdoor picnic at the stadium and reserved seating for the game. The all-you-can-eat buffet includes hamburgers, hot dogs, pulled barbecue chicken, pasta salad, baked beans, fruit salad, prepackaged cookies, garnishes, condiments, Pepsi products, beer, and water. Registration deadline is August 15 or as space is available. Tickets will be mailed to you approximately 10 days in advance. Register online at http://alumni.uindy.edu, or call the Office of Alumni Relations at (317) 788-3295.

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Alumni Trip to Frankenmuth Young Alumni Bahamas Cruise Check out the alumni November 7–10, 2008 event calendar at Nassau, Bahamas http://alumni.uindy.edu, How would you like to trade the unpredictable, chilly temperatures of the Midwest for a relaxing then register via Alumni weekend in the warmth of the picture-perfect Central, your online Caribbean? Join your UIndy Alumni Association for its first Young Alumni Cruise! Greyhounds connection or call (317) from the classes of 1998 to 2008 are invited to 788-3295. And turn to attend an exciting three-day cruise to Nassau, the next page to learn September 26–28, 2008 Bahamas, aboard the Carnival cruise ship about Alumni Weekend, Experience Frankenmuth, “Michigan’s Little Imagination. Bavaria,” with this alumni road trip! Based in Miami, the newly upgraded May 30–June 1! Football fans can cheer on the Greyhounds Imagination will be your floating resort as you as they battle Saginaw Valley State University. A set sail for Nassau with your UIndy friends. pregame UIndy fan reception will help everyone Reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first- rev up for the game. Be there for kickoff to fill served basis, so register today! Saginaw Valley’s stands with crimson and grey $999 per person (double occupancy) and cheer the Greyhounds to victory. $1,299 per person (single occupancy) If you’re a shopper, you’ll enjoy walking flower-lined streets on the way to Bronner’s Pricing includes: Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest Round-trip airfare from Indy to Miami Christmas store. While there, visit the Silent Round-trip airport transfers with meet-and- Night Memorial Chapel, a replica of the original greet service chapel in Oberndorf, Austria. After Bronner’s, Three nights’ accommodations aboardC arnival’s visit the largest outlet center in the Midwest, the Imagination in ocean-view staterooms Prime Outlets at Birch Run, home to 140 of your All meals onboard the ship favorite brand-name stores. Admittance to a private welcome reception A trip to Michigan’s Little Bavaria would not with a host bar be complete without the famous Frankenmuth Bon voyage champagne and chocolate in all-you-can-eat, family-style chicken dinner and each room German wine tasting. All government taxes, fees, and crew gratuities Weekend package includes roundtrip motor coach transportation (to/from Indianapolis) with Initial $100 due to hold reservation; second box lunch and beverages, narrated driving city deposit of $200 will be due July 1, 2008; tour, hotel accommodations, Greyhound fan balance paid in full by September 1, 2008. For reception, wine tasting, all-you-can-eat chicken more details visit www.alumni.uindy.edu. To dinner, breakfast buffet, Greyhound football register, contact Ambassadair Reservations at ticket, round-trip transportation to Saginaw 1-800-225-9919, ask for the Cruise Desk, and Valley State, and round-trip transportation to reference trip 3673. Bronner’s and Birch Run outlet mall. This trip will sell out, so register today at http://alumni.uindy.edu, and check out what other Greyhound fans are road-tripping! $280 per person (double/triple occupancy); $400 per person (single occupancy) with 50% deposit paid on or before July 31 $310 per person (double/triple occupancy); $430 per person (single occupancy) with 50% deposit paid on or after August 1 Cancellations received on or before July 31 are eligible for a 50% refund; no refunds August 1 or after.

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Reunion Dinners: Classes of 1953, ’63, ’68 Friday, May 30 6 p.m. Dinner Registration & Welcome Center Schwitzer Student Center Noon–3:30 p.m. These classes will gather to celebrate their You should be Richard E. Stierwalt Alumni House reunions, share fond memories, and catch up on each other’s lives. Reunion contacts: class of 1953, Make this your first stop when arriving on campus dancing! Alumni George Rosselot; class of 1963, Terry Wetherald & and pick up your weekend registration packet. If John Winkler; class of 1968, Dick Boyce. Weekend has a disco you’re staying on campus, your Central Hall room key will be included. Enjoy beverages and snacks 70s Disco Night Party theme, thanks to while reconnecting with former classmates. (in celebration of our 1970–79 graduates) the Friday night Registration & Welcome Center 9 p.m. Schwitzer Student Center 4:30–6:30 p.m. party. Don’t feel Schwitzer Student Center Hub Shake your groove thing all the way back to the ’70s as this deejay party reunites the classes of like a dancing If you arrive after 4:30 p.m., your registration 1970–1979—and all alumni who love that era. packet will be available at Schwitzer. queen? There’s lots Dust off those bell-bottoms, grow out those Class of 1958 Reunion sideburns, and come ready for this far-out party. of other stuff to do! 5:30 p.m. Reception; 6:30 p.m. Dinner Schwitzer Student Center Saturday, May 31 Class members from 1958 will gather for their golden anniversary, celebrating 50 years of ICC/ Registration & Welcome Center UIndy friendships. Reunion contacts: Ron Wise & 7–9 a.m. & 5–7:30 p.m. Amy Zent. Schwitzer Student Center Atrium

Classes of 1949–1952 Reunion Dinners Central Hall Continental Breakfast 6 p.m. Dinner 6:30–9 a.m. Schwitzer Student Center Central Hall lobby

Join in the fun and to recollect memories Fifty-Year Club Breakfast and friends from 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952. 7:30–8:45 a.m. Reunion contacts: Don & Esther Fleener ’49. Schwitzer Student Center, Ober Dining Hall Enjoy a hot buffet breakfast and be a part of an exclusive audience: alumni who have graduated 50 years or more ago! This event is open to all

32 PORTICO spring 2008 graduates of 1958 and prior years and serves to induct the class of 1958 officially into the Fifty-Year Club.

Frederick D. Hill Archives 9–10:15 a.m. Krannert Memorial Library, 2nd Floor Stop by the Archives to chat with Christine Guyonneau, University archivist, and learn about hidden gems and rich University history.

Professional Advisory Panel 10:30–11:30 a.m. The Ink Spots in Concert Krannert Memorial Library 7:30 p.m. Back by popular demand, this panel consists of Ruth Lilly Performance Hall advisors skilled in investment, financial and estate Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center planning, and accounting. Spend an hour and walk A true departure from disco. With more than away with lots of free professional advice. 80 hit records and numerous million sellers, the Ink Spots’ unique style, sound, and elegant stage All-Alumni Picnic—meet the Ink Spots! presence have delighted audiences worldwide. The 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Ink Spots have entertained for decades with the Good Hall front lawn wonderful harmonies and arrangements that have (CD sales, autograph signing) made the group a musical legend. While numerous Alumni Hospitality personnel changes have taken place within the group in its 60 years of existence, the familiar close 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. harmonies remain the Ink Spots’ stock in trade. Stierwalt Alumni House

Campus Tours 1:30–2:15 p.m. Sunday, June 1 This walking tour departs from the Central Hall Continental Breakfast Stierwalt Alumni House 6:30–9 a.m. Central Hall lobby Honors & Recognition Dinner 5 p.m. Registration Alumni Worship Service 5:30 p.m. Dinner (Ober Dining Hall) 10 a.m., Alumni Forum Speaker 6:15 p.m. Program Fellowship Hall, lower level 7 p.m. Dessert Reception (Atrium) 11 a.m., Celebrative Worship Service Schwitzer Student Center Sanctuary, University Heights UMC

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Friday, May 30, and Saturday, May, 31 Central Residence Hall, on campus Move-in help available from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Friday Early bird registration through May 16, 2008. No refunds on or after May 23, 2008. EARLY BIRD RATe regULAR RATE Class of ’53, ’58, ’63 & ’68 Dinners ...... $20 / person...... $22 / person Central Hall Friday Accommodations...... $20 / person...... $22 / person 1970s Decade Disco Party...... $5 / person...... $ 7 / person Central Hall Saturday Accommodations...... $20 / person...... $22 / person Fifty-Year Club Breakfast Buffet...... $ 6 / person...... $8 / person Professional Advisory Panel...... Free...... Free Picnic...... $ 8 / person...... $10 / person Honors and Recognition Dinner...... $20 / person...... $22 / person Ink Spots in Concert...... $20 / person...... $25 / person alumni.uindy.edu 33 Class Notes

Portico welcomes your Winamac, Ind. He is sur- Loper elementary schools. Rev. Elium Gualt ’48 news and photos for vived by his wife, Lucille, Thelma is survived by her died November 15. He Class Notes, to be used and their children, Sharon son, John, and daughters, was retired as minister at as space allows. All and Mike. Jane Helbing, Mary Anne the Unitarian Universalist original photos will be Tracy, and Pat Haehl. Church, Manchester, N.H. returned to you. Please Ruth Slick Ferris ’36 Thelma was a lifelong resi- He lived in Hazlet, N.J. submit a print or high- passed away on August dent of Shelbyville, Ind. resolution (300 dpi) 3. She is survived by her Robert McBride ’48 digital image, sent as children, Judith Wooden, 1940s passed away on January an attachment, to Roberta Hutchison, and Elizabeth Maass Goebel 19. At one time a faculty [email protected]. Jean Howell. Ruth lived ’41 died October 9. She member in the philosophy (Unfortunately, in Morristown, Ind. Fworked I Nat J and J Market and religion department reproductions of O Research in Indianapolis.D at Indiana Central, he newspaper photos Thelma ReinhardtY She is survived by herI son, later served as an academic cannot be used.) WheelerT ’36 died Novem- Don, and daughter, MarA- dean at Albright College I N berS 24. She had been a garet Goebel VanHorn in Reading, Pa., and as 1930s teacher in the Indiana ’75. Elizabeth lived in presidentA of Simpson Col- William Doty ’35 died Rcounties of Boone, Mari- Greenwood, Ind. lege in Indianola, Iowa. on, Hendricks, and Shelby RobertP is survived by his December 18. He retired E

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Longevity is what George Jacobs ’42 HD ’77, Public Schools in Beech CS hapel; Bob was a loving

U Education for Service Franklin, Ind., is all about. He and Dorothy Grove for 20 years. Helen friend and mentor who (Milhouse) Jacobs ’39 have enjoyed 65 years of is survived by her daugh- had a huge impact on the marriage. Since graduating from what was then ter, Deborah Wooden UIndy community. Indiana Central College, the Jacobses have kept Riley ’73, and son, David their ties to their alma mater as constant as their Wooden ’77. Helen lived 1950s devotion to one another. 1 in Franklin, Ind. Rev. Clifford Moore ’50 The Jacobses frequently visit various UIndy 9 0 2 died September 8, 2007. offices to obtain business envelopes to acquire postage stamps in support of an overseas mission Roberta Good Chaney He served the United initiative. Occasionally George finds an unusual ’48 died November 11. Methodist Church until stamp or one from another country. Especially She was an educator he retired in 1994. He is coveted are the postage stamps from Greece. at Ashtabula Area City survived by his wife, Doro- As a student at ICC, George had enjoyed a Schools for 34 years and thy, son, Richard, and two Greek language class. When he started collecting was a lifetime member daughters, Marsha Richter stamps in the 1950s, he noticed the postage of the Retired Teach- and Gloria Lebe. Clifford stamps from Greece were always colorful and ers Association of Ohio. resided in Scottsdale, Pa. beautifully designed. And since his Greek class She is survived by her had piqued his interest, he became intentional about acquiring Greek stamps. Thanks to a husband, Harold, and Harold McPherson ’51 steady flow of mail between the University of children, Joan Makley passed away October 8. Indianapolis and its Athens campus, his Greek and Brent. Roberta lived He was a retired principal stamp collection now numbers close to 2,500! in Ashtabula, Ohio. and district superinten- dent. He is survived by

34 PORTICO spring 2008 Randy West ’64, photographer and longtime editor of the Corydon Democrat, Corydon, Indiana, has published a book of 110 of his favorite photos. Around the Corner, Down the Street is a compelling glimpse of small-town Indiana in the latter 20th century. Judy O’Bannon, former first lady of Indiana, writes in the introduction, “Randy West reminds us of what life is all about here in southern Indiana. From the highlights of the county queen fair contest to the sobering moments of individual contemplation, Randy was there for 35 years with camera in hand.” (To order a copy, send a $25 check to Randy at 121 Highway 337 North, Corydon, IN 47112 or write [email protected].) Randy’s favorite photo is reproduced on the book’s cover at left; ours is shown above.

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his wife, Lois McPherson Harold Schuman Jr. ’54 He is survived by his wife, tions including teacher, ’52. Harold lived in St. died November 23. He Elaine, and children, Mina director of four language Ignatius, Mont. was a retired computer and Anthony. programs in Europe, and systems analyst from the assistant to the president at Beverly Burkhardt Farley Indiana Ammunition 1960s Lake Forest College. She is ’53 died September 28. Plant in Charlestown, Ind. Mickie Shircliff ’61 survived by her husband, She was a teacher at IPS He is survived by his wife, passed away October 4. George. Ingrid lived in School 13 for three years. Carol, and their six chil- He was a retired plant Lake Forest, Ill. She is survived by her dren, Lori Spencer, Stacia manager from Navistar daughter, Beth Ann Wild, Predmore, Brian, Pamela International in Indianap- Thomas Leonard ’62 and son, Darrel Joseph Torman, Judy Taveira, and olis. He is survived by his passed away December 5. Farley Jr. Beverly lived in Josh Nagley. Harold livedF wife, I Marilyn,N sons, Jim He was the president and Indianapolis. in New Albany. O and Jay, and daughters,D CEO of Thom Leonard’s Y Debra Lavengood, SusanI Company. Thomas was Lorraine Zinck Rundle DemetriosT Antonopou- Clark, and Karen Girgis.A also a veteran of the U.S. I N ’54 died June 15. She is losS ’55 died September 19. Mickie lived in New Navy. Thomas is survived survived by her sons, Jon, He was an educator at Ben Palestine, Ind. byA his wife, Peggy, and David, and Mark. Lorraine RDavis High School (India- their three children, Mark, lived in Montfort, Wis. napolis) for 37 years. Dur- GayleP Smith, and Tina E Ingrid Henkels Speros

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36 PORTICO spring 2008 Randall Linhart ’62 Stephen Richwine ’66 Alumni event died December 16. He is was elected to the Frank- ‘Graduates of the Heart’ survived by his wife, Kath- lin Township Education Alumni Dinner Theatre erine, and their children, Foundation board of Love was in the air February 23 at the Schwitzer Deborah and Paul. Randall directors. He is retired as a Student Center as more than 50 alumni couples lived in Zionsville, Ind. teacher at Franklin Town- enjoyed a date night at their alma mater. These cou- ship schools. John lives in ples, affectionately known as UIndy’s “graduates of John Lyzott ’64 passed Fountaintown, Ind. the heart,” shared their love for one another and for away September 6. John UIndy with a dinner, followed by the Department was a retired science teach- Michelle Stoneburner of Theatre’s production of Red Herring, a romantic and comedic look at love and tying and untying er and wrestling coach. He ’66, professor emerita of the knot. Attendees represented 1,048 total years had been inducted into the French, and her husband, F ofI marriageN and ran the gamut from an engaged Florida Wrestling Hall of Floyd Satterlee, wentO to couple to anotherD couple married for 65 years! Fame and the United States Senegal in WestY Africa I Wrestling Hall of Fame. with a Tmission group from Check out alumni eventA photos on Alumni I Central at http://alumni.uindy.edu.N He lived in Plantation, Fla. RSoberts Park United Methdist Church in A Karen Foley Bosley ’65, RIndianapolis in February. who began her career as a The group will help UMC StevenP Humphrey ’71 is E 1970s

copy editor and reporter missionaries in Dakar with assistantO executive director Larry Criss ’70 passed for the Indianapolis News V light construction projects for external relations at

away November 30. A I while earning her degree, and wellness clinics. LittleL Flower Children and

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Criss Label and Printing U Education for Service As adviser to the award- October 18. He is survived He lives in Brooklyn. since 1991. He worked winning Viking News, the by his children, David and for H & R Block during paper of Ocean County Tricia Newblatt. John lived tax seasons. Larry is College, she was involved in Troy, Mich. survived by his wife, in a First Amendment bat- Carolyn, son, Mark, and tle that brought her to the William Tutterow1 ’69 9 daughter,2 Jennifer Hill. attention of College Media (see p. 28) retired as 0 He lived in Indianapolis. Advisers, which champi- Martinsville High School’s oned her cause. When her head baseball coach and Diane Norton Black ’71 contract was not signed science teacher in Septem- graduated from Trinity because of Viking News ber. He coached baseball Diana Heald Hall ’73 is Evangelical Divinity articles critical of the for 38 years and football broker/owner of Classic School with a master of administration, she filed for 36 years. Martinsville Realty, Inc. in Indianapolis. arts in religion in May. a lawsuit alleging that the High School named its She is a member of the She is an adjunct professor administrators violated her baseball field Tutterow Perry Township Retired of religion at Franklin First Amendment rights; Field in his honor. He is Teachers Association in College. Diane lives in she was finally reinstated married to Sharon Jones Indianapolis and serves Franklin, Ind. to her duties as an adviser. Tutterow ’69. They live in on the Friends of Garfield Karen lives in Long Beach Martinsville, Ind. Park board of directors. Township, N.J. Diana lives in Indianapolis.

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Nick Romano ’73 is direc- William Pettie ’77 died engineer. During his tor of sales for Brandserts December 19. He was a career, he was a visiting in Baltimore, Md. He lives correctional officer at the professor at several univer- in Norwalk, Conn. Indiana Department of sities around the world, Corrections, retiring after including the University Wendell Bernard ’74 many years of service. of Bejing and University serves on the Blue River William also was a U.S. of Moscow. In retirement, Bancshares board of direc- Army veteran. He is sur- he plans to travel and tors. He is vice president vived by his wife, Gloria, continue to guest-lecture Marsha Doolin Meckel of Williams Industries in and stepchildren, Damon for the United States Parks ’76 joined BSA LifeStruc- Shelbyville, Ind. Wendell Fickling and Elemtriss Department. He lives in tures’ health care resource and his wife, Victoria Fickling. William lived in Beverly Beach, Fla. department in IndianapoF- I Bernard ’76, live in Shel- O Pensacola,N Fla. lis as an associate. D byville, Ind. Y I Thomas Rechlin ’78 is T David Rees ’77 and hisA the owner of Ocean Grove I N Bertha Ollier Meyer ’75 S wife, Rebecca, celebrated Flower and Gift Shop in ’78 is the coordinator of 30 years of marriage on OAcean Grove, N.J. He and Women’s Mood Disor- R June 11. He is an agency his wife, Catherine, live in ders at Clarian Health in owner at Allstate Insur- OceanP Grove. E

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awarded the Spirit Award U Education for Service president-elect of Postpar- for the south division of tum Support International the Metropolitan India- and begins her two-year napolis Board of Realtors. term in June. She lives in The award exemplifies Speedway, Ind. Richard Stierwalt ’78 ’80 good citizenship and 1 is the CEO of the United outstanding contributions9 2 Gloria Gradeless Daniel- 0 Benefits & Pension Services to the real estate profes- son ’76 ’95 received the David Sease ’77 is vice in East Norwalk, Conn. sion. Mike is an associate Young Trial Lawyer of the chairman and co-owner Richard serves on the broker with F. C. Tucker Year Award on November of Sease Gerig and UIndy Board of Trustees. Company in Greenwood. 1 at the Indiana Trial Law- Associates in Indianapolis. He lives in San Francisco. He lives in Greenfield. yers Association fall insti- David also is a member of tute. She is an attorney at the University’s board of Rev. Mark Van Deman E. Elaine Driscol ’77 is Landendorf and Landen- trustees and serves as chair ’79 has released A Traveler’s the sales manager at the dorf in Indianapolis. of the Metropolitan India- Guide to the Spirit Realm. Westin Hotel and Resorts napolis Public Broadcast- The book unlocks timeless in Indianapolis. Elaine ing board of directors. mysteries with imagery lives in Indianapolis. and allegory to carry the Don Kiesel ’78 retired spiritual traveler into the from IBM after 43 years unseen realm of the Spirit. as a senior consulting Mark is married to Susan

38 PORTICO spring 2008 ‘My motivation here was to make a change in the community’

A few short weeks after his graduation, David the bank requires the purchase of stock, which White ’06 left for a two-year, three-month generates the capital used to distribute loans. The assignment with the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. amount of the loan a person can get is in relation “Once I started thinking about working with the to how much stock he or she owns. Loans are paid Peace Corps, I really wanted to do it,” David says. back with interest, but the interest goes back into “I’d be able to use my accounting and Spanish the capital of the bank, meaning that stockholders degrees, and it’s something totally different from receive yearly dividends. what I could do in the States.” “It’s cheaper than a normal bank and has David was placed in La Cruz, Monteverde, less red tape to go through, too,” David says. a small town of about 200 people. Even with his He’s also helped to start programs for kids that Spanish skills, the language was one of the biggest teach them about the importance of education, challenges he faced. preserving the environment, and saving money, “The first six to seven months were hard and helps them open their own savings accounts. because you’re almost like a stranger in town, “We’re progressing pretty well,” says David. you’re the only American in town, and there are “We’re still training people on how to operate cultural differences that can be hard to adjust to,” the bank, but soon we will have an inauguration Hometown: Fort he says. “Plus you’re trying to gain the confidence and from then on, it will be locally managed.” Wayne, Indiana of the people in the community and become part When David isn’t working in the business Most unusual Costa of their lives. Everyone was welcoming, but it realm, he’s teaching English classes to local Rican foods: Iguana takes time to meet and get to know people.” teenagers. “I’ve been teaching for about a year meat, turtle eggs, One of David’s first projects was to work and am now on the second level,” he says. “I’ve cow tongue (“and with a local women’s group that sold marmalades, also been teaching Junior Achievement courses rice and beans every mostly to tourists. about basic business and economics to fourth, single day!”) “The women were losing money on every sale fifth, and sixth graders.” He also helped the What David before I got here and they didn’t even know it,” kids to learn a bit of geography by painting a does for fun: David says. “They didn’t know what their product world map outside of the school. “That was a Pool, soccer, and was worth, so I’ve helped them to figure that out pretty cool project,” he says. “Some of the kids dancing. “I walk and to start keeping basic accounting records. didn’t even know where Costa Rica was. Who about an hour to a We also have increased the market they sell to knows, the mural could spark their interest in neighboring town and how to market the products more toward the the world!” each Wednesday tourists.” In Monteverde and throughout Costa As his commitment in Costa Rica comes to night for dance Rica, tourism accounts for a majority of the an end in September, he’ll head back to the States, lessons. It’s worth it!” economy, bringing more money to the country but he hopes his time in La Cruz will have made a Biggest surprise than coffee and banana exports. positive impact. “The bank will continue to grow about Costa Rica: Once the women’s group started to make after I leave, and I know that the women’s group “The weather. more money, David proposed starting a micro- is now making more money, which brings more It’s cold, rainy, credit bank in La Cruz. In early 2008 a completely income into the household and helps to change the and windy in the sustainable bank opened with the help of David town’s attitudes about the women’s capabilities. mountains where and FINCA (Fundacion Integral Campesina), a “My motivation here has been to make a I’m living. It’s not Costa Rican foundation that has specialized in change in the community, especially with the hot and tropical training rural communities to form and manage kids,” he says. “About half of the kids don’t everywhere.” their own banks for more than 20 years. graduate from high school, so I’m hoping that I’ve What he’s going “All the money for the bank comes from the taught them through Junior Achievement and the to miss the most townspeople,” he says. “The idea of the bank is that bank about the advantages of staying in school. about Costa it will generate local economic activity and will Making a better future for the youth definitely Rica: “My flexible be around for years to come.” To be a member of motivates me.” —Jennifer L. Huber work schedule!”

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Van Deman and has nine Stevan Savich ’80 is the Alumni services sons. They live in White- senior bank and trust exam- Calling all cards land, Ind. iner at Federal Reserve Bank Have a of Chicago. He and his wife, business David Kitchell ’79 Julie Hackman Savich ’81 passed , card? You away November 18. He live in Crown Point, Ind. use it for net- was an assistant football working, but coach for Ashland High Betty Brill Barrett ’81 it also can help School and fifth grade died on September 17. the University teacher at Bellview Ele- She was a realtor for Re/ demonstrate the wide variety of careers its alumni mentary in Ashland, Ore. Max Preferred Professional are employed in. A binder of UIndy alumni busi- While attending Indiana in Indianapolis. Betty F nessI cards,N sorted by career, is on display in our Central, he received the lived in St. Augustine, O Fla. Admissions DOffice. It’s a great way for prospective Kelso M. Reid Mental Y students and familiesI to see some of the ways our Attitude Award. David Brad BuckT ’81 married alumni have gone onA to succeed. I N is survived by his wife, LoriS Sumner on May 19 Tricia, and their children, at New Life Presbyterian A Brian and Mackenize. He RChurch in Yorktown, Ind. Lynn McBride Turner Lindsay Lindgren ’85 is lived in Medford, Ore. They live in Alexandria. ’82 is director of mental theP vice president of gas E

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U Education for Service received the 2007 PACE ’84 is the director at Connie Crabtree Purcell Ambassador Award from Marion County Chil- ’85 is the controller at the National Federation of dren’s Guardian Home in Planned Parenthood of Paralegal Associations. Indianapolis. She lives in Indiana in Indianapolis. Indianapolis. She lives in New Palestine. Richard Gedig ’821 is 9 2 Tim Martin ’80 financial director of manu- 0Brandt Dodson ’84 had Patricia Buchanan ’86 has retired from the facturing at Rexnord BCG his fifth novel, White Soul, is an associate professor Indianapolis Metropolitan Group in Milwaukee, Wis. released on February 1. in the doctor of physical Police Department after He lives in New Berlin. Brandt lives with his wife, therapy program at Des serving 42 years. He was Karla, in Newburgh, Ind. Moines University in Iowa. deputy chief in charge David Knoeppel ’82 She lives in Des Moines. of the south district is the vice president Todd Gillespie ’84 is a for 11 years. Tim and at Longview Physical research advisor in Analyti- DeEtta Potter Charpie his wife, Judith, live in and Sports Therapy in cal Sciences Research and ’86 formed a new com- Indianapolis. Longview, Wash. He lives Development at Eli Lilly pany, U Dunn It, Inc. She in Castle Rock. and Company in India- writes theatrical mystery napolis. He also lives in productions that her com- Indianapolis.

40 PORTICO spring 2008 pany performs at fundrais- Michael Shouse ’88 is lings, Gabriel and Victoria. ers and corporate events lead designer at the Event Jim is the vice president using the organization’s Company in Louisville, at Lafayette Savings Bank, dignitaries as performers. Ky. He lives in Louisville. Lafayette, Ind. The family She and her husband, lives in Lafayette. David, live in Indy. Charles Cambridge ’89 died September 17. He Paige Kurtz ’90 is Charles Gans Jr. ’86 is was a retired management president of the American director of operations sup- engineer for Navistar Society of Hand Thera- Kelly Dunwell McWil- port at the Martin-Brower International Trans Cor- pists. She joined the staff liams ’91 has been named Company, Rosemont, Ill. poration in Indianapolis. of Bon Secours In Motion Best Assistant Principal He and his wife, Suzanne, He is survived by his Physical Therapy and F I by the Indiana Associa- live in Plano, Tex. wife, Carolyn, whoO is an Sports Performance.N Paige D tion of School Principals. administrativeY assistant at lives in Hampton, Va. I She is assistant principal Rev. Kelly Carpenter UIndy.T An active com- A at Decatur Central High ’88 spoke as part of the munityI volunteer, Charlie Connie Curtis Wright ’90N S School in Indianapolis. Public Theology program lived in Indianapolis. is a certified financial plan- SheA serves on the UIndy at Wake Forest University R ner for Wright Financial Alumni Association Board Divinity School. He is a Kevin Guy ’89 is vice Services in Ellettsville, Ind. P E of Directors and lives in

senior minister at Green president of sales and mar- Connie lives in Ellettsville. O Greenwood.

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U Education for Service Linda Harshbarger ’88 Dean Huppert ’89 is ’91 was appointed public sports director and main information coordinator sports anchor at WSJV- for the Indiana section TV in Elkhart, Ind. He of the Amateur Radio lives in Mishawaka. Relay League. Linda is the 1 9 2 coordinator for emergency Chris ’89 and Kate 0 management and safety Chrake ’88 Kuehn at the Indiana University announced the birth of Pack-the-House Night Basketball Medical Center. She lives their second child, Eliza & Alumni Chili Buffet in Greenwood. Irene, May 23. She joins On January 12, a large crowd of alumni and her sister, Emma Kate. friends filled up on a chili buffet at the Ruth Jamie Cox Mitchell ’88 The family lives in Lilly Fitness Center, then joined Greyhound fans in Nicoson Hall for the women’s and men’s is executive director of Plainfield, Ind. basketball teams as they took on Northern CHAMP Camp, serving Kentucky. Two victories over visiting Bellarmine children who have had 1990s were garnered that night—first the women’s team tracheotomies or who won, followed by an exciting one-point overtime Jim Allen ’90 and his require respiratory therapy win for the men’s team. wife, Rachel, announce the assistance. She lives in August 18 birth of Brianna Check out alumni event photos on Alumni Arcadia, Ind. Grace. She joins her sib- Central at http://alumni.uindy.edu.

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Larry Meyers ’92 has Charles Cassinelli ’93 for the Marion County health resource division. received his master’s degree ’99 was elected to the Health Department in He lives in Indianapolis. in education from Indiana Franklin Township Educa- Indianapolis. She lives Wesleyan University. He tion Foundation board in Fairland. Shane Schmidt ’94 is a is starting his 15th year at of directors. He is a vice geologist at TSi Engineer- Heritage Christian School president at National City Kelly Smith ’93 is a ing, Inc. in Kansas City, in Indianapolis. Bank in Indianapolis. development associate, Mo. He lives with his wife, Indiana University Foun- Amber, and daughter, Jeffery Pierce ’92 is a Shelley Wilhelm dation, Indianapolis. Kelly Aurora, in Kansas City. senior commercial under- Hutchek ’93 and her lives in Indianapolis. writer at Acuity in Sheboy- husband, Jim, announce Christopher Boeke ’95 Check out alumni gan, Wis. He also lives in the birth of their son, FTimothy IN Bless ’94 was is director of applications event photos at http:// Sheboygan. Ryan James, on JulyO 17. named CoachD of the Week development and support alumni.uindy.edu. Ryan was welcomedY home by the Indianapolis IColts. at Vectren Corporation. Log in to Alumni Melissa Brandenburg by his Tbrother, Jared, and Timothy is the footballA He lives in Evansville, Ind. I N Central; go to “news Smurdon ’92 and her hus- sister,S Alexandria. They coach at Columbus North and events,” then band, Nathan, welcomed live in Speedway, Ind. Nigh School in Colum- LoreneA Burkhart HD “photo album.” Post the birth of Noah Gabriel R bus, Ind. He also lives ’95 serves on the Indiana your own photos on September 20. Melissa Rob Kanable ’93 and in Columbus. DollarsP for Scholars board E

to share with your is associate director of his wife, Julie, happily of directors.O She lives in

UIndy friends on financial aid at Butler V announce the birth of Stephanie Crabill Indianapolis. I

your Alumni Central University in Indianapolis. their son, Tyler Robert, on Dunfee ’94 is a medical L

personal profile. August 21. The new baby technologist in a molecu- AlvaI Hanns ’95 is the N

It’s easy! Brian Zoeller ’92 has was welcomed home by lar biology lab at Richard socialS service director

U Education for Service received the Indianapolis his sister, Ryann. They live L. Roudebush VA Medical for Sunbridge Care and Bar Association Pro Bono in Powell, Ohio. Center in Indianapolis. Rehabilitation Center in award for Aiding Individu- Stephanie lives with her Cartersville, Ga. She is als for his volunteer efforts Brian Sheehan ’93 is husband, Ryan, and their working on her PhD. Alva as guardian ad litem, repre- manager of marketing two children, Alex and lives in Douglasville. senting interests of chil- promotions and sales1 9 Breanna,2 in Camby. dren in abuse and neglect tools for Batesville Casket, 0 cases. He also was recog- Batesville, Ind. He has Dr. David Hampton ’94 nized as a Distinguished written a book, Legend of spoke at the Unity Sunday Fellow in the Indianapolis the Lions, about Rushville event in Martinsville on Bar Foundation. Brian is a (Ind.) High School bas- November 18. He was partner and certified fam- ketball. He lives with his inducted into the UIndy ily law specialist for Cohen family in Rushville. Athletic Hall of Fame in and Malad PC. 2005. David is a senior Janet Shipp ’93 gradu- pastor of Zion Hope Bap- Aimee Lammert Jones Christopher Braun ’93 ated from Indiana tist Church, Indianapolis. ’95 ’97 and her husband, is the general manager of Wesleyan University with He lives in Fishers. Michael, announce the gas operations at Citizens a master of science degree September 6 birth of Gas and Coke Utility in in nursing education in Philip Jackson ’94 is a twins, Levi Edward and Indianapolis. He lives in December 2007. Janet is a tax manager for Katz, Lily Elaine. The twins Indianapolis. certified diabetes educator Sapper, & Miller, LLP, were welcomed home by

42 PORTICO spring 2008 their siblings, Emma and Heather Shaw Rody ’96 Alumni event Ethan. Aimee is a physi- ’99 and her husband, Alumni Faculty/Staff cal therapist at Columbus Martin, celebrated the Appreciation Luncheon Regional Hospital in July 17 birth of their third Two celebrations marked March 19, honoring the Columbus, Ind. They live child, Grace Meredith. 225 faculty and staff employed by the institution in Franklin. Heather is employed at that’s also their alma mater! Faculty and staff PRN Pharmaceutical Ser- alumni started their day with a Starbucks Ann Lindsey ’95 passed vices as a pharmacy and reception near campus, followed by a luncheon at away December 10. She order entry technician in the Stierwalt Alumni House. Dr. Sue Willey ’75 was a social worker with Indianapolis. The family was honored as the 2008 Distinguished Faculty/ Staff Alumni Award recipient. Adult & Child Mental lives in Brownsburg. Health Center of India- F CIheckN out alumni event photos on Alumni napolis. Ann is survived Yvonne Shaheen HDO ’96 Central at Dhttp://alumni.uindy.edu by her children, Jay and serves on theY Metropoli- I Deanna. She lived in tan IndianapolisT Public Paula Miller Ryan ’97A Daniel Strunk ’97 is an I N Indianapolis. BSroadcasting board of and her husband, John, associate at Locke Reyn- directors. She also serves announce the birth of John oldsA in Indianapolis. He Rich Milliner ’95 is Ron the UIndy board of Patrick III on September and his wife, Valerie president of Milliner and trustees and lives in 3. He is welcomed home LeisP Strunk ’96, live in E

Associates, LLC, a new Carmel, Ind. by his sisters, Maggie and Greenwood,O Ind.

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U Education for Service the Midwest. Rich lives in emy in Indianapolis. She Public Affairs Group, Zionsville, Ind. lives in Indianapolis. LLC. in Indianapolis. He lives in Indianapolis. Jennifer Lathrop Brunt Gail Fox ’97 ’04 is the ’96 is a certified hand new Community School therapist at Replay Physi- Coordinator for R1alph 9 0 2 cal Therapy in Noblesville, W. Emerson IPS School Ind. She lives in Fishers. 58 in Indianapolis. Betsy Schmidt ’97 has received the Diane Black Sara Gierhart Mercer Bethanie Grinstead Servant Leadership ’96 and her husband, Roberts ’97 and Julie Award from Leadership Dru, welcome the birth Seward ’89 opened a Johnson County for her of their third daughter, Pilates studio at the volunteer work as chair of Amber Swihart Elise Kay, on November 2. Georgetown Market in the Downtown Franklin Weishaar ’97 and her Sara is a registered nurse Indianapolis. Bethanie Holiday Lighting Pro- husband, Aaron, at Jay County Hospital in lives in Carmel and Julie gram. Betsy is employed announce the Novem- Portland, Ind. The new lives in Indianapolis. by Franklin College as the ber 9 birth of Meghan baby joined her sisters, director of development Chelsea. Amber is the Carissa and Lindy, at the research in the institu- director of Web services family’s home in Bryant. tional advancement office. at UIndy. The family She lives in Franklin. lives in Indianapolis.

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Katrina McDonald by her siblings, Braeden Andrew Richardson ’98 Wells ’97 received her and Ashley. The family ’00 is a project analyst for master’s degree in nurs- lives in South Bend, Ind. the finance department at ing administration from BSA LifeStructures, India- Purdue University via John Eddington ’98 is napolis. BSA LifeStruc- Indiana University-Purdue director of field operations tures is a national leader University in Fort Wayne. at Citizens Gas and Coke in designing healthcare, She welcomed her son, Utilities in Indianapolis. education, research, and

Brandon Owen, on May He lives in Indianapolis. technology facilities. He Rachael Bozek Douglas 25. The family lives in lives in Indianapolis. ’99 ’01 and her hus- Leo, Ind. Sarah Slack Enz ’98 band, Dan, announce and her husband, Jeremy, F I the December 13 birth announce the birthO of N D of their daughter, Ella Jacob BerrettY on July 29. I Capri. Rachel is a special Jacob wasT welcomed home A care coordinator for the by hisI brothers, Brayden N S Dementia Unit at Porter and David, and sister, HA ills Retirement Village, RRachel, at their home in Grand Rapids, Mich. They Avon, Ind. P E live in Grand Rapids.

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in Lafayette, Ind. She U Education for Service for Homer School Dist. cal director for surgical lives in Lafayette. 33C and Children’s Ther- services at Community apy Specialists. The couple Hospital South in India- Lorie Lee Hacker ’99 is live in Homer Glen, Ill. napolis. The new baby was an assistant professor at Andrew Kocher ’98 has welcomed home by his Ivy Tech Community Col- been named director sister, Morgan Alicia. 1 9 2 lege School of Health Sci- of development in the 0 ences Nursing Programs in University Advancement Tiffany Chilton Collins Indianapolis. She and her office at UIndy. Andy lives ’99 is the interactive and husband, Edward, have in Indianapolis. marketing communica- five children. They live in tions coordinator for the Morgantown. Jerry Padgett ’98 gradu- Humane Society of Mis- ated from Indiana Univer- souri. Her husband, Matt Gary ’00 and Amanda Amanda Baker Bon- sity School of Law and is Collins ’01, is a national Harner ’99 ’01 Isza trager ’98 ’04 and her now an associate attorney strategic customer sales announce the August 15 husband, Anthony, for the Tyra Law Firm, executive for the Hershey birth of their son, Brody. announce the May 18 P.C. in Indianapolis. Jerry Company in St. Louis. Gary is a firefighter at the birth of Lilian Rebecca. and his wife, Jennifer, live They live in St. Louis. Avon Fire Department. The baby was welcomed in Brownsburg, Ind. Amanda is an employment services representative at

44 PORTICO spring 2008 Easter Seals Crossroad a physical therapist for the Alumni services Rehabilitation Center. Lexington Clinical Sports Alumni Association Benefits The family lives in Indy. Medical Center. They live As a graduate, you are automatically a part of in Virginia Beech, Va. the UIndy Alumni Association. What does that Jennifer Urich Lathrop mean? UIndy Alumni Association members are ’99 and her husband, Jeff, Daniel Struck ’99 is the entitled to join Alumni Central, your online announce the birth of social studies teacher, alumni community, where you can post and Hillari Paige on October head wrestling coach, and search for jobs. Receive free “Future Greyhound” 30. Jennifer is a nurse freshman football coach T-shirts for the newest additions to the family, and child birth educator at Jeffersonville (Ind.) (pictureaudit a saved)University class at no cost, obtain a membership discount at the Ruth Lilly Fitness for Community Health High School. He also lives Center, gain access to the University’s Krannert Network. The new baby in Jeffersonville. F MemorialIN Library, and much, much more! Visit joins her sister, Cierra, O alumni.uindy.eduD for more details on Alumni at the family’s home in Chad WolffY ’99 and his Central and yourI membership benefits! Indianapolis. wife, Sarah,T announce the A birthI of Teghan Reese on N S accounts payable/payroll Kasey Winger Lowry June 19. Chad is a special at Franklin (Ind.) United A ’99 married Jeff Lowry Reducation teacher and Methodist Community. June 23. Kasey is a special head baseball coach at P E They live in Greenwood.

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registered nurse at Clarian Sadie Rose on November Nunn & Associates. She North in Indianapolis. 14. The family resides in lives in Mooresville, Ind. The family lives in Indianapolis. New Palestine, Ind. Kimberly Parker ’02 was Jared Tucher ’01 is assis- married on September Shalimar Holderly ’01 tant pastor at Trinity Lu- 18 to Richard McCarty was ordained as a full elder theran Church, Gillette, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. She in the United Methodist Wyo. He lives in Gillette. works in the cash manage-

Church on June 2 at the ment department for the Michelle Campbell North Indiana Annual Christine Johnson Wickard Companies in Hauersperger ’03 and her Conference. She lives in Weisner ’01 is the staffing Freemont, Ind. They live husband, Tim, announce Fort Wayne. specialist for Elwood Staff- in Fremont. F I the August 2 birth of ing in Indianapolis.O She N D Ethan Michael. Michelle is Angelica Lopez Johnson also lives inY Indianapolis. I marketing and sales project ’01 and her husband, T A coordinator at National Kevin, celebrated their MarcI Aguilera ’02 is the N S City Bank in Indianapolis. one-year anniversary on academic director of the TheyA live in Indianapolis. September 30. Angelica Rculinary arts at the Art is a financial planner Institute of Indianapolis. P E Lindsey Hendren ’03 is

for Primerica Financial He lives in Indianapolis. O production manager at Services in Farmington V

Pacers Sports and Enter-

I Hills, Mich. They live in Gretchen Rush Becker Kathy Render Seybert L

tainment in Indianapolis.

Roseville, Ind. ’02 is a reporter for the ’02 and her husband, I

N She also lives in Indy.

Indianapolis Star at the Chris, welcome Jackson S

U Education for Service Audra Legge ’01 is the north bureau in Fishers, Christopher, born August Stephanie King ’03 accounting manager at the Ind. She and her husband, 5. Kathy is an occupation- married Ryan Abbott on Indiana Municipal Power Jason, live in Indianapolis. al therapist at St. Joseph September 22 at the Agency in Carmel, Ind. Hospital in Kokomo, Ind. Smith Valley Baptist She lives in Fishers. Sarah Boyle ’02 was in They live in Kokomo. Church in Greenwood, an Artworks production 1 9 2 Ind. Stephanie’s brides- David Phares II ’01 is of The Sound of Music. 0 maids included Debbie the market manager at Artworks is an art therapy Rosenberger ’03. Ryan Irwin Union Bank and center connected to the is a union bricklayer and Trust in Shelbyville, Ind. University of Arizona. Stephanie is assistant He lives in Shelbyville. She lives in Tucson. controller for Emmis Communications in India- Stephani Johnes Remetta Shane ’02 and Carlie napolis. They live in Avon. ’01 is the account McClintic ’03 Cope executive at WYXB in announce the birth of Daphne Kivett Whitmire Michael ’03 and Valerie Indianapolis. She resides their son, Blake Dean, on ’02 and her husband, Bastin ’00 Kriech wel- in Greenwood, Ind. November 25. The family Matt, announce the birth come the birth of their lives in Indianapolis. of their daughter, Katie daughter, Nadia Anne, on Daniel Rexroth ’01 and Renee, on November 17. July 1. Valerie is employed his wife, Amy, are proud Leigh-Ann Glidden ’02 is They live in Indianapolis. at the Baxter YMCA in to announce the birth of the supervisor at Larry E.

46 PORTICO spring 2008 Make a difference in the lives of others

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You may not know that tuition revenue covers only approximately 65 percent of the cost to operate the University. The remaining 35 percent is made up in part by the generous annual support of alumni, parents, employees, friends, and businesses. Your support of the Annual Fund provides the University with current-use funds for such things as program development, academic research, and student scholarships. It also provides the flexibility for the University to use the dollars where the need is greatest.

Every single annual gift is important, no matter the size. Your annual gift will have a direct impact on the lives of UIndy students by helping to provide a transformational education.

See how your gifts can help! $50...... Provides student support for community service projects $100...... Helps send a student to a meaningful conference $250...... Enables the University to acquire an important library resource $500...... Underwrites a student research project $1,000...... Supports the purchase of lab equipment $2,500+...... Establishes a Named Annual Scholarship (in your name or in honor of someone special to you) that connects your gift to a specific student whose need approximates the size of your contribution.

It’s never too late to start making a difference in the lives of others. Please continue to support the Annual Fund or make a first- time gift—today!

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Indianapolis. The baby Lisa Kocher Bohacik ’04 Mason Storm ’04 is the was welcomed home by is an accounting office aquatic director and head her siblings, Nicholas and staffer at UIndy. Lisa lives boys and girls swim coach Belle. The family lives in in Indianapolis. for Pike Township Schools Indianapolis. and Pike High School in Kurt Brabender ’04 is Indianapolis. He lives in Dustin Matern ’03 gradu- assistant sales representa- Indianapolis. ated from Indiana Univer- tive for Stryker Endoscopy

sity School of Law with in San Jose, Calif. He lives Karrie Blagrave ’05 is Nicholas LaGuire ’04 his Juris Doctor degree in in Greenwood, Ind. a pediatric occupational received the Governor’s May. He is a law clerk at therapist at Easter Seals Award for Tomorrow’s Johnson County Superior Derek Donelson ’04 is an Crossroads, Indianapolis. FLeaders I on September 5 Court 2. He and his wife, assistant wrestling Ocoach N She lives in Fishers. during the IndianaD Leader- Tara Schoch Matern ’06, at PlainfieldY (Ind.) High ship retreat. NicholasI has and their daughter, Kael- School.T He also lives in A joined the staff at the ynn, live in Franklin, Ind. Plainfield.I N S Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., and is A Emily Murray ’03 is a RMitchell ’04 and Rachel owner/partner of LaGuire project manager for health Overfield ’04 Hammer- P E Property Group in Lafay-

services research at the sley announce the birth O ette, Ind. He is also on the Indianapolis Veterans V of Lena Elizabeth on May

Alumni Board of Direc-

I Administration Medical 30. The family lives in L

tors at UIndy. He lives in

Center in Indianapolis. Elkhart, Ind. RoseI Hedge ’05 performed

N Washington D.C.

Emily received her master’s atS the Indiana State Fair

U Education for Service in social work from Tem- Chase Huotari ’04 is the with her Irish dance group, Clinton Sims ’04 mar- ple University in 2005. varsity baseball coach at Celtic Motion. Rose lives ried Lyneca Morrow on She lives in Indianapolis. Franklin Central High in Indianapolis. August 30. They wel- School in Franklin, Ind. comed the birth of their Diana Sturm ’03 is the He and his wife, Barbara Danae McBride ’05 son, Clinton Jr., on June pastor at the Woodside Hahn Huotari ’04, live in married Brian Horban on 1 9 9. Clinton2 is a career United Methodist Church Indianapolis. 0 August 11. Danae is counselor for IndyPen- in Lafayette, Ind. She lives employed at ACS as a dence Career Academy in in Indianapolis. Katherine Denning quality assistant. They live Indianapolis. They live in Karres ’04 graduated in in Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Stephanie Tura ’03 is the May from Indiana Univer- tax manager at Pricewa- sity School of Law. Kath- Letha Howard ’05 mar- Michelle Darchuck Siri terhouseCoopers LLP erine passed her Indiana ried Christopher Brooks ’04 and her husband, in Indianapolis. She was Bar exam and is working on September 6, 2005, in Robert, announce the also the recipient of the at Schultz & Pogue, LLP Hanna City, Illinois. The birth of their daughter, PricewaterhouseCoopers practicing medical mal- wedding party included Ella Ryann, on February National Chairman’s practice defense. She lives Jamia Alexander ’04, 21. Michelle is employed Award for her leadership, in Indianapolis. Lois Thompson ’04, at School City of Misha- excellence, and teamwork. Normanda Jones ’07, and waka (Ind.). They She lives in Indianapolis. Matthew Jones ’05. The live in South Bend. couple welcomed their first

48 PORTICO spring 2008 child, Gary Christopher, University of Minnesota Alumni event on April 6. They live in in Minneapolis. She also Senior Salute: Indianapolis. lives in Minneapolis. Honoring the Class of 2008 On April 6 seniors and their families, as well as faculty and guests, enjoyed a memorable evening planned by the Student Alumni Association for the Class of 2008. This event at Primo’s Banquet Hall helped to transition students into alumni by reflecting on their days on campus. The evening included a visual presentation of campus memories. Reflective and encouraging comments were made by a variety of students, UIndy F administration,IN alumni, and others. Jessica Broadus Lowman Shaun McAllister O Tol- D ’05 and her husband, liver ’05 andY her husband, Check out alumniI event photos on Alumni T Central at http://alumni.uindy.edu.A Gabe, announce the birth Marquis,I announce the of Kaydence Shyanne on birth of Preston Edward N S Tyler Deuser ’06 had August 1. They live in on August 15. The family A North Vernon, Ind. Rlives in Evansville, Ind. his article “MRSA in Gymnastics”P published E in USA Gymnastics.

Christina Massing ’05 is Richard Arroyo ’06 is a O

a registered nurse at Com-V catalyst at CrossTech Net-

I munity South Hospital works in Indianapolis. He LisaL Haines ’06 is proud

to announce the birth of

in Indianapolis. Christina lives in Zionsville, Ind. I N

RS yan Michael, December

lives in Indianapolis. U Education for Service 10, 2006. They live in Kent Berry ’06 and Fountaintown, Ind. Stephanie McNamara Sarah Goodrich ’04 were ’05 is a certified athletic married November 3. The Sarah Lankford ’06 is an trainer/orthopedic techni- wedding party included Aged and Support Services cian for Emory Sports Andrea Fisher ’03, coordinator, QMRP, with Medicine in Atlanta, Ga. 1 Deborah Eller Doughty 9 0 2 AccessAbilities, Inc. in She lives in Atlanta. ’04, Amanda Vasquez Merrillville, Ind. She lives ’04, and Zane Andrews in Valparaiso. Alicia Locke ’05 mar- Jennifer Atteberry ’06 ’06. Sarah is in her fourth ried Kenneth Rader on married Nicholas Lopez year of medical school at Jennifer Henderson ’06 September 24. She is the on December 29. Jennifer Indiana University and married Matthew Nich- senior auditor for Green- is a marketing representa- will graduate with her olson on October 7. She walt Sponsel and Com- tive at the Foundry doctor of medicine degree is a registered nurse and pany in Indianapolis. They Advertising Co. in India- in May of 2008. Kent is the patient care coordina- live in Indianapolis. napolis. Nick is a student in the School of Psychol- tor at St. Francis Hospital at the University of India- ogy graduate program at in Beech Grove, Ind. The Renee Johnson Rerko ’05 napolis and is employed at Ball State University and couple lives in Shelbyville. is an academic advisor for WICR 88.7. They live in plans to pursue his PhD. the Upward Bound Vision Indianapolis. They live in Fishers, Ind. Quest program at the

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Lylanne Musselman ’06 versity communications. is presenting a series of She and her husband, Jeff new poems and an essay Atteberry ’07, completed for Writing the Midwest: UIndy’s Executive MBA A Symposium of Scholars, program in May 2007. Poets, Writers & Filmmak- They live in Westfield. ers at this year’s Society for the Study of Midwestern

Literature Conference at Kayla Stinnett Rudd ’06 Sonja Freeman White Michigan State University and her husband, Derek, ’06 is regional manager in May. She also has been announce the birth of for Flagstar Bank, India- asked to be a moderator Bailey Mae on August 22.F napolis. I She serves on the at the conference. She O N Kayla is a registered nurse UIndy alumniD board of shares her stories dur- Y at Riley Children’s Hos- directors. Sonja livesI in ing “BloomingOUT” on T A pitalI in Indianapolis. The Camby, Ind. WFHB 91.3 & 98.1 FM. NCristy Corwin ’07 mar- familyS lives in Coatsville. Lylanne hosts a monthly ried Peter Howard on May Jennifer Wilson ’06 is a A open mike at Bookmama’s R 20. Bridesmaids included Amanda Tressler ’06 copywriter for the Clear in Irvington. She teaches CrystleP Collins ’07 and E is a registered nurse at Channel Greenville (S.C.)

creative writing for the MeganO Shelton ’07. Lutheran Hospital in Fort radio cluster and hosts School for Adult LearningV Cristy teaches at School

Wayne, Ind. She lives in overnight broadcasts on

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at her alma mater. #83L in Indianapolis.

Fort Wayne. Whistle 100 (WSSL-FM).

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N She lives in Greenville.

Eric Perry ’06 is a junior MebretS Gillard ’07 is

Dararath So ’06 mar- U Education for Service designer at McGraw-Hill a help desk support ried Vithaneth Vong on Companies in New York, technician for client August 2. They live in N.Y. He lives in New York. services at UIndy. He Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. lives in Indianapolis. Alumni services 1 9 2 Justin Linder ’07 is a 0 financial services repre- sentative at New England

Financial, Indianapolis. He Mary Atteberry ’07 was also lives in Indianapolis. appointed executive direc- tor of communications Get Your Mailing Labels James Conner HD ’05 and marketing for UIndy, passed away September 16. Pick from three UIndy label designs online at responsible for manage- He served in the Army http://alumni.uindy.edu. Go to Benefits and ment and oversight of during WWII and was one communications, market- Resources, then Mailing Labels. In addition to the of the last five members of ing, and publications, a design above, label choices include the UIndy logo his unit. Survivors are his newly created comprehen- seven children: Theresa, without the Alumni line and a Greyhound logo sive and integrated man- Dawna Burrin, Deborah, (like the one on the UIndy license plate). agement team. Previously, James, Joseph, Jerald, and she was director of Uni- Angela Padgett.

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If you live in the Indianapolis area, chances are you’ve noticed that UIndy is enjoying a higher profile these days. With these new billboards in place, that profile has risen even higher. The goal of the billboards is to remind motorists of the University’s conspicuous and growing role in the city we call home. You’ll notice several versions of the boards, some with the UIndy nickname logo and some with the formal University logo, and featuring different combinations of students in each. And yes, all the students featured are University of Indianapolis undergraduate students.

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