THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Winter 2019

After a nearly six-decade hiatus, OWU is marching again GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER

16 Painting Manning 18 Moving music 24 Rock’s 10 26 Booked in Fiji Jay Martin became the first men’s soccer coach in NCAA history to win 700 games when the Battling Bishops defeated Oberlin on Sept. 22. His players surprised him with shirts commemorating his milestone, which fittingly occurred at Jay Martin Soccer Complex. Said Martin: “It’s always nice to say that you’ve done something that no one else has done, but we’ve had great players here over the last 40 years, and that’s how we’ve won 700 games — good players.” Forward Ben Sobotka ’21 scored the game’s only goal. “With all due respect to Oberlin, we should have scored more goals,” Martin said. The men’s team finished the season 13-4-2, including 6-1-2 in conference play. 16

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16 Abstract audible Artist Will Day ’93 turned his skills into a business beyond the studio and was recently commissioned to capture quarterback Peyton Manning on canvas.

18 Marching on After a nearly six-decade hiatus, the Marching Bishops have returned to OWU, bringing energy and a kickin’ soundtrack to football, basketball, and campus events.

24 Q&A with Rock Jones OWU’s 16th president takes stock of his decade on the job and talks about the joys of his work (the people) and the last show he binged.

26 FIJI in Fiji Alex Widman ’17 is stationed halfway across the world on a remote island, where he’s applying skills learned at OWU to building a library — with some help from back home.

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02 LEADER’S LETTER 10 COMFORT ZONES 34 ALUMNI HAPPENINGS 04 FROM THE JAYWALK 12 GIFTS AND GRATITUDE 35 CALENDAR 08 BISHOP BATTLES 14 OWU CONNECTION 36 CLASS NOTES 09 OWU TIMESCAPES 32 FACULTY NOTES 48 THE FINAL WORD

ON THE COVER: David Jindracek ’22 wails on tenor saxophone during a halftime performance by the newly re-formed marching band Oct. 13. Photo by Paul Vernon. 2 | OWU Leader’s Letter

OWU Board provides thoughtful leadership on University objectives he Ohio Wesleyan Board of Trustees for financial oversight, facilities planning, marching band. The music was fabulous, Tprovides exemplary leadership and and work with the president. and Mary Kate McNally, director of the oversight of the mission and values If you were to ask our trustees what Marching Bishops, energized the board of our University. Our board includes they enjoy most about board meetings, with her introduction to the band, which individuals who bring great experience they would talk about their interactions was last seen at OWU in 1961. in a variety of sectors. While most with Ohio Wesleyan people – fellow The return of the marching band is are alumni, the board also includes trustees, faculty and administrators, and one of the many new programs created as part of the 2020 initiative designed to enhance enrollment at a time of unprecedented challenge in American higher education. The 2020 initiative grew out of a faculty summit on the future of Ohio Wesleyan in May 2015 and a board retreat in February 2016. Since that time, the faculty have adopted 10 new majors, the University has added two new sports and marching band, and we have invested heavily in programs designed to increase retention. Fourteen percent of this year’s new students listed a new major as their area of interest. Twenty-four new students were recruited by wrestling and rowing, our new athletic programs, with another 24 new students participating in marching band (see story Page 18). This year’s class is the strongest class, Colleen Nissl ’72 (left), a member of the OWU Board of Trustees, was a moderator for the second academically, in nearly a decade, with biennial Women of Ohio Wesleyan forum on campus in October. (See story Page 4.) average SAT scores 35 points higher than last year. The 2020 investments are parents of current or recent students most importantly, with students. OWU having significant impact. and community leaders with a passion people are smart and interesting, and I am grateful for the visionary for higher education. Few universities our trustees appreciate their interactions leadership of our board, our faculty, benefit from a board with the stature, with one another and with the campus. and all who have provided generous leadership, accomplishment, and deep They never forget that our mission as a philanthropic support to advance these commitment that is reflected in the OWU residential liberal arts university focuses initiatives, some of which are featured in Board of Trustees. on the transformational educational this issue of the magazine. Thank you for The board’s responsibility is both to experiences of our students. your generous and passionate support oversee the current strategic focus of Each board meeting includes a for Ohio Wesleyan. the University and to take the long view dinner for trustees to spend time with – to ask hard questions about strategic one another in a social setting. The direction that have implications for 25 dinner this fall, originally planned for to 50 years from now. Board meetings the lawn at Pritchard House, was moved include opportunities for thoughtful to the Milligan Hub in Stuyvesant Hall Rock Jones President, Ohio Wesleyan University engagement with key strategic priorities due to weather. During dinner the Twitter: @owu_rockjones as well as the ongoing responsibilities board received a visit from OWU’s new Letters

THE MAGAZINE OF OHIO Old house was filled with memories Rep. Dennis Moore, I was guided to WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY I fondly read the article about the House the facility in Pennsylvania that issues of Black Culture (“A house reborn”) and medals. The medal comes with your what it meant to so many students. I name stamped on the obverse. was fortunate to have been raised just My belief is the Collord family a few homes away. There is an even (“Alumnus sleuth solves 100-year-old more engaging history about that military mystery”) never asked for the WINTER 2019 | Volume 95 Issue N0. 3 location because quite a number of medal (a Silver Star the family could venerable OWU professors and their not locate). They could certainly ask for www.owu.edu/alumni one now through their congressman. families also lived along that street. Ohio Wesleyan Alumni Online Community Such familiar neighbors’ names as Ed Dexter ’69 Prof. Lewis Westgate (geology), Prof. Leawood, Kansas Vice President Benjamin McElroy (religion), Prof. Harvey for University Advancement Hewitt (music), Prof. J. Allen Hynek Natalie M. Doan, J.D. ’03 (astronomy and physics), Prof. Ralph Chief Communications Officer Sinnett (chemistry), Prof. Sidney Rowland Will Kopp (mathematics), as well as my father, Prof. Paul Hahn (German). Editor My best childhood friends were Molly Vogel [email protected] Patricia Kelley Shishler ’55 and Stephen Kelley ’54. Their parents were OWU Director of Alumni Relations graduates Beverly and Ruth Kelley, Katie Webster who owned the home at 65 Oak Hill beginning in the 1930s. I can remember Class Notes Editor Amanda Zechiel-Keiber ’09 playing on the upstairs third-floor fully [email protected] refurbished playroom, in winter sipping hot chocolate in front of the fireplace Editorial Assistant (with the same salvaged mantel), and Anna L. Davies ’19 munching ice cubes in the summer on Dr. Carl Pinkele Copy Editor the large front porch along with all the Andrew Sterling other neighborhood children. Remembering favorite professors I am quite pleased that the wonderful If not for Dr. Carl Pinkele and Dr. Michael Designer location at the “Top of Oak Hill” can Good (politics and government), I would Patrick Kastner again provide an environment of comfort have never graduated from OWU. Both for future students in which to study, were the kind of professors who cared Contributing Photographers James D. DeCamp, Lisa DiGiacomo, reflect and recharge in today’s modern about their students and engaged Spenser Hickey ’15, Mark Schmitter ’12, world. Hopefully the new home can each of their students on a daily basis. Paul Vernon, Reilly Wright ’20 produce many more profound memories. There are those people along the way Jack Hahn ’55 that make a difference in your life. Dr. Contributing Writers Lt.Col. USAF (Ret.) Good was not only my professor, but Cole Hatcher, Molly Vogel Albuquerque, New Mexico ultimately a lifelong cherished friend. Editorial Board When Dr. Pinkele approached me in Dale Brugh, Mike Plantholt, Eugene Rutigliano, Search for Silver Star should later years to sponsor a speaking series, Nancy Bihl Rutkowski start with Congress I felt a deep sense of spirit to give back About six weeks after I returned home to a man who had given so much to me. Office of University Communications (740) 368-3335 from Vietnam, I received orders and a I am deeply saddened to find out he is certificate signed by Gen. Creighton gone. He definitely changed my life for Alumni Relations Office Abrams awarding a Soldiers Medal for the better. Thank you, Dr. Pinkele, for (740) 368-3325 an incident that occurred well before the professor you were! [email protected] I left. No medal was enclosed. Many James Barger ’78 San Marino, California Website: www.owu.edu years later, through my congressman, OWU Magazine: owu.edu/magazine The Ohio Wesleyan Magazine ISSN 0030-1221

Share Email us at OWU Magazine Letters may Corrections: An incomplete Alumni [email protected], Office of Communications be edited for Association Board of Directors roster was your included in the Fall issue; a complete listing can opinions tweet to @OhioWesleyan 61 S. Sandusky St. length and be found on Page 36. Zoe Rosenthal ’18 was or send us a letter: Delaware, OH 43015 clarity. misidentified in a photo, as wasJim Collord ’50. The names of J.D. Faulkner and Kim Eckart were misspelled. We regret the errors. 4 || OWUOWU From the JAYwalk

Doan ’03 appointed vice president, university advancement OWU alumna Natalie Milburn Doan, J.D., Arts degree in politics and government ’03 was named vice president for university and psychology from OWU in 2003 and a advancement Nov. 15, a role she has filled Juris Doctor degree from Capital University on an interim basis since June. She will Law School. She has been a licensed Ohio oversee the University’s alumni relations, attorney since 2006. “I have experienced advancement, and career services offices. firsthand the transformational power of an “Natalie emerged as the ideal Ohio Wesleyan education, and I’m grateful candidate to lead our advancement efforts for the opportunity to serve my alma mater following a national search that resulted during this pivotal time in OWU’s history,” in a pool of absolutely stellar candidates,” said Doan. said President Rock Jones. “She is an “We’re very fortunate to have Natalie outstanding team leader and strategic confident – help to make it OWU’s most as our new vice president for university fundraiser who is deeply loyal and strongly successful fundraising campaign to date.” advancement,” said Kevin J. McGinty ’70, a committed to OWU’s educational mission. Doan joined Ohio Wesleyan in 2012 as member of both the vice presidential search Natalie has been involved with our $200 a development officer for planned giving committee and Board of Trustees. “She will million Connect Today, Create Tomorrow and became director of donor relations provide a dynamic, insightful, and strategic campaign since its inception and will – I am two years later. She holds a Bachelor of focus to the position.”

Austin Manor sale allows for campus improvements In September, Ohio Wesleyan purchased two strategically located properties using a portion of the proceeds from the August sale of Austin Manor. They include a residence at 145 W. William St. that separated the Smith and Welch halls student parking lots (the house was demolished in November and will be incorporated into student parking in the summer) and a home at 46 Hayes St., the (From left) Samantha Wallace Sharpe ’09 moderated the panel “The Life-Work Balance only non-OWU structure in its immediate Unicorn: Seeking Balance and Making Trade-offs,” which featured physician Katie White vicinity. Arendt ’98, community volunteer and stay-at-home mom Kelli McNairy Winston ’93, and The University sold Austin Manor, Jonna Gallo Weppler ’93, who recently left a long career in publishing to join an equity fund. which was constructed in 1923 to accommodate the growing number of women who enrolled at OWU after World WOW forum focused on connection War I, to Columbus-based RiverWest Some of Ohio Wesleyan’s most Teddy Luckett ’84 in the terrorist attacks Partners, LLC., which will continue to accomplished alumnae traveled from of Sept. 11, 2001. operate it as a rental community and retain across the country to participate in Samantha Wallace Sharpe ’09 and the name in the short term. the second biennial Women of Ohio Kara Trott ’83, a member of the OWU The building was named for Cyrus Wesleyan (WOW) leadership forum Oct. Board of Trustees, served as co-chairs, B. Austin, Class of 1879, a longtime 19 and 20 on campus. working closely with volunteer committee University dean. Austin Manor was Lisa Luckett P’16/’20 delivered a members to plan a meaningful event added to the National Register of Historic keynote address based on her new that tackled the value of advocating for Places in 1985 and renovated into luxury book, The Light in 9/11: Shocked by oneself, the question of having it all, apartments in 1988. The Board of Trustees Kindness, Healed by Love, which traces and challenges specific to women in the authorized the use of $865,000 from the her inspiring journey through grief, workplace. The date for the next WOW sale for repairs to Beeghly Library. following the death of her husband has been set for Nov. 6 and 7, 2020. From the JAYwalk From the JAYwalk WINTER 2019 | 5

First-year students at Service Camp volunteered during the day and bonded over campfires in the evening at Camp Lazarus in Delaware.

Camp Oh-Wooo for all incoming students builds community In an effort to provide early opportunities fraternity & sorority life, coordinated the 30 different sites throughout Columbus, for connection and friendship, the six-day program, and each camp was led by a including Ronald McDonald House and Camp Oh-Wooo orientation experience University staff member from the Office the YMCA. was universal for all incoming students for of Student Involvement or the Chaplain’s ● Wilderness Camp groups traveled the 2018-19 school year. Office. Additionally, 69 juniors and seniors to Coopers Rock State Forest in West First-year and transfer students arrived served as small group leaders and 20 Virginia, where they participated in rock for move-in day Aug. 16, participated in faculty and staff members participated as climbing, canoeing, caving, and hiking, Convocation with their families, then set mentors. Students chose from: along with evening campfires. out for camp the following morning. OWU ● Challenge Camp at Camp NuHop, Pulcini says the response from offered four unique experiences. All four about an hour north of campus; students campers was overwhelmingly positive, camps had a unifying curriculum with participated in high and low rope courses and the early bonding experience is discussions and prompts for students and canoeing, competed between groups, expected to help improve student to share with one another in small and worked to support group members retention. “We’re one of the few doing groups, focusing on building community as they pushed themselves to meet their this in this way. What makes us unique is through recognizing that others might goals. there’s no cost to students and we make be struggling with similar questions or ● City Camp participants remained it a part of every student’s orientation challenges as they enter college. near campus, allowing fall athletes who experience,” Pulcini said. “There were three main focuses to the had early season practice to participate. A gift from the Elizabeth Ring Mather camps: to create a sense of belonging Their experience included trips to COSI, and William Gwinn Mather Fund will help early on, to strengthen students’ self- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the Short support the cost of camp for three years. efficacy, and to ease their social integration North district in Columbus, and the city of Planning is already well underway for to campus,” says Brad Pulcini, associate Delaware. the next incoming class, and due to the dean for student engagement, who helped ● Service Camp placed an emphasis growth and scope of the program, a full- conceptualize the camps. on volunteering, as students stayed at time staff position has been created to Dana Behum, director of clubs and Camp Lazarus in Delaware and served oversee the experience. 6 | OWU From the JAYwalk From the JAYwalk

McCain OWU commencement lessons endure The passing of longtime Sen. John McCain on the OWU Board of Trustees. Aug. 25, 2018, after a battle with brain cancer, Siham Gheewala ’10 was among those prompted reflections and testimonials from seniors who took McCain’s 2010 message around the world. Among those who delivered a to heart, although she admits it took a while eulogy for McCain was former Secretary of State to sink in. After graduating from OWU, she Henry Kissinger. completed her master’s degree in education at Kissinger recalled McCain as a “gift of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. destiny” and lauded the family’s history of “I actually think about that speech often. I’m service. He went on: “In a commencement a teacher now (of English at La Jolla Country speech at Ohio Wesleyan University, John Day School in San Diego) and the thing that summed up the essence of his engagement of strikes me as the most pressing problem in a lifetime. ‘No one of us, if they have character, our systems is how uncomfortable we are with leaves behind a wasted life.’” failure. It’s a value that goes deep because McCain delivered the commencement it’s instilled so early, so I really love that Sen. Pepsi choice address at OWU in 1997 and 2010, in part thanks McCain had the courage to get up in front of us brings soda to his good friend Evan Corns ’59, a member of and talk about it.” revenue stream The University signed a 10-year contract with Pepsi that will provide additional revenue. Vending machines are being added around campus, including in Branch Rickey Arena and Selby Stadium.

Sen. John McCain speaks at the 2010 Commencement. Listening are (from left): President Rock Jones, Provost David Robbins; Life Trustee Kathleen Rhinesmith ’64, and registrar Shelly McMahon. Promoting inclusivity in Speech highlights you chose to employ all the blessings God public spaces 1997: All of you will eventually face a choice, bestowed on you to leaving the world a little earlier in life than you may now presume, better for your presence in it. Many restroom signs across about whether or not you will become leaders campus were updated over in society or whether you will allow others to 2010: We are all afraid of something, whether the summer. “It makes a assume that responsibility while you attempt it’s failure, or dispossession, or mortality, and statement to the community to reap the blessings of a prosperous country the sacrifice of time that becomes so precious and in particular the without meaningfully contributing to their to us. But we should not let the sensation of transgender community preservation. I very much hope you will choose fear convince us we are too weak to have that we are intentionally the first course. ... As Socrates contended, courage. Fear is the opportunity for courage, inclusive of all people,” “The unexamined life is not worth living,” so not proof of cowardice. No one is born a said President Rock Jones. I contend that the passive life is not worth coward. We were meant to love. And we were forgoing the satisfaction of knowing that meant to have the courage for it. From the JAYwalk From the JAYwalk WINTER 2019 | 7

Annex reopens as business accelerator The Delaware Entrepreneurial Center at Ohio Wesleyan University opened in the remodeled Stewart Annex on Oct. 4 with an open house. The business accelerator, at 70 S. Sandusky St., is a collaboration among the University, Delaware County, and city of Delaware, the first such kind of partnership in the country. Read more at owu.edu.

Rojas to head diversity efforts In the newly created role of chief diversity officer, Juan Armando Rojas Joo will guide the implementation of Ohio Wesleyan’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policy and serve as a resource for related topics, including educational, facilities, and human resources-related issues, such as employee recruitment and retention. A member of the faculty since 2004, Rojas also is a professor of modern foreign languages and will continue to serve as the University’s associate dean of diversity and inclusion. “Ohio Wesleyan is fortunate to have Dr. Rojas as our first chief diversity Pattern of misconduct prompts officer,” said President Rock Jones. “The University will be well-served by his three-year Phi Delta Theta suspension deep passion for these issues and his In partnership with Phi Delta Theta restart the chapter in spring 2021 and commitment to supporting the further Fraternity General Headquarters and reoccupy the house at 19 Williams Dr. in development of a campus culture that the Alumni Advisory Board of OWU’s fall 2021, provided conditions are met values every form of diversity and Ohio Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta, during the interim period. welcomes all people.” Ohio Wesleyan University suspended Todd said the University remains Said Rojas: “I plan to explore and recognition of the Ohio Beta Chapter very supportive of the fraternity and strategize ways to improve organizational effective Oct. 22. Additionally, the sorority experience, which helps to culture and existing policies with the General Headquarters has suspended develop strong leadership skills, build a goal of creating a more comprehensive the chapter’s charter for three years. As a generous philanthropic spirit, and create academic environment for students, result, the “Phi Delt” chapter house was powerful alumni connections. faculty, and staff from under-represented vacated and the occupants relocated to “It is because of this commitment groups.” other campus housing facilities. to high-quality fraternity and sorority Rojas recently wrote a chapter in “The decision to suspend Ohio experiences that we feel we must the forthcoming book Valley of Hope: Wesleyan’s chapter was made after uphold standards for our chapters that Campus Diversity Triumphs titled significant deliberation among require alignment with the values and “Advocating for a Diversity and Inclusion international staff and officials, local mission of their chartering organizations Commitment at Liberal Arts Colleges: alumni advisors, and University and of our University. We believe by Essential Conversations in the Role of personnel pertaining to a pattern of doing so, we can sustain a strong the Chief Diversity Officer.” In addition, serious misconduct within the chapter fraternity and sorority system for years he has been accepted into the 2018- and a declining commitment to the to come,” said Todd. 2019 Senior Leadership Academy of the values expected of members,” said An email message sharing the news Council of Independent Colleges. Dwayne Todd, vice president for student with alumni was co-signed by Andy Learn more about diversity, equity, engagement and success. Warnock ’06, Phi Delta Theta Ohio Beta and inclusion at OWU at www.owu.edu/ The fraternity will be permitted to Chapter advisor. diversity. 8 | OWU Bishop Battles

October reunion and alumni game celebrate 60 years of OWU lacrosse efore lacrosse alumni from the past 60 years met for a reunion dinner over Homecoming & Family Weekend,B a game had to be played. Coach Mike Plantholt helped assemble the Red and Black teams from across the decades to ensure a range of fresh knees among the sides. They took to the Henry Street lacrosse practice field around noon on Saturday, Oct. 6, for a game that ended 5-3 or 5-4 (the final score was beside the point — alumni won). More than 100 alumni and friends of the program attended the evening’s reunion, along with current players. “Their attendance is a testament to the enduring affection for the program held by so many,” said Plantholt. The gathering was the result of more than a year’s planning by Alumni Relations staff with the extensive help ofPete Lee ’65, who tears up when he talks about OWU lacrosse. “It means the world to me,” Pete Lee ’65 scores on Patrick Kennedy ’03 in the alumni vs. alumni game Oct. 6, on what Lee he says. “It’s a huge part of my life.” called a “beautiful feed” by John Narwicz ’77. (Photo by John Karassick ’68) Bill Ackerman ’58 was one of two inaugural team members (From left) Charles who made it to the reunion. He “Chikk” Myers ’73, son recalled the unorthodox search of inaugural coach Fred for the program’s first coach: Myers; original team “First they asked who had member Russell “Buzz” coached before and nobody had Wilson ’59; the “first lady of OWU lacrosse” Sylvia done that. Then they asked who Willoughby Myers ’69; had played before, and no one original team member had done that. Then who has Bill Ackerman ’58; and seen a game, and Fred (Myers) Pete Lee were among raised his hand and that was it.” the more than 100 former and current players Lacrosse Legends and friends who returned Andrew Stringer ’73, who has for the reunion dinner. stayed on the field as a college referee and as a high school (former coach Rich) Seiler in one game in Needless to say, we did not win that coach for his son, was unable to attend Lake Placid when we were tied with barely game.” the 60th reunion but reflected on his a minute left calling a timeout (mostly so The next tournament is Jan. 18-21, 2019, experiences of playing in OWU’s “lacrosse we could catch our breath) and asking me in Weston, Florida. The Florida Lacrosse legends” games. if I could beat my defender for the last play. Classic features divisions for ages 40 and “I remember playing eight games Naturally, I said ‘Sure….’ I take the ball, up. Pete Lee and Steve Corrigan ’74 are in three days in the Florida Classic one the whistle blows, I make seven or eight always looking for recruits. Contact them year and actually chewing Advil on the moves on my guy and realize when I Iook at [email protected]. sidelines before each game. I remember at the goal that I have not even moved. — Molly Vogel Bishop Battles OWU Timescapes WINTER 2019 | 9

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Sticking Rock and Soaking Rock In President Rock Jones’ 10 years at Ohio Wesleyan, he students could pay $1 for a strip of duct tape to affix has presided over moments solemn and momentous — him to a wall (alas, no records were kept on how many and he’s also done some very silly stuff. Among student strips it took to stick Rock). To kick off the current school groups, Jones is known for being a good sport, happy to year, he joined the Campus Programming Board’s water go along with just about anything to entertain students or games event Aug. 23 on Thomson lawn featuring water support their cause. In 2011, he participated in the Kappa balloons and a dunk tank, where students could take Alpha Theta fundraiser for cancer, Relay for Life, in which their best shot at sinking Rock. At least a few succeeded. 10 | OWU Comfort Zones

Darrell Albon • 109 Merrick Hall Darrell Albon’s “fishbowl” office on the first floor travels with Albon, the director of international and of Merrick is, in many ways, a window to the off-campus programs and administrative director of world. He has a prime view of students coming The OWU Connection, in many cases the man who to learn more about the international and real- played a part in getting them on the plane. He also world opportunities of The OWU Connection helps international students with immigration and and enough international mementos and thank tax issues, and they give him trinkets from home. you’s to stock two offices — which in fact, he has Alumni keep in touch and send gifts, and OWU’s (The OWU Connection staff is also located on international partner organizations also swap the second floor of Hamilton-Williams Campus knickknacks. All of which means: If it’s sitting in Center). People enjoy sharing souvenirs of their Albon’s office, there’s a story behind it.

5 1 Jewel of the Nile 7 Family photo Albon This tiny Tut was a gift from Abeer Abdelaal, Albon cleverly has pieces of paper taped visiting professor of Arabic and Spanish, from to most items in his office to recall their

the University of Cairo. provenance, but his family photos require none. Tim ’11 and Cecelia ’15 both chose ▼ OWU, while Theresa went to Wooster, and 2 OWU seal of approval Maria headed northwest to the University of Albon is one of only two people on campus British Columbia. known to have the official University seal; the other is the registrar. He needs it to certify international documents. 8 Skol! This pewter mug bearing Viking kings of Norway was a gift from Toralv Nordbø, 3 King of New Orleans whose sons Mats ’11 and Tov ’09 both The Mardi Gras scepter and crown were attended OWU. a gift from the students from the 2015-16 Travel-Learning Course “Reading and Writing about Place,” which visited New Orleans with 9 Computer-made critter Lynette Carpenter, professor of English. A tiny textured orange squirrel and its acorns were made using a 3D printer by Albon’s daughter Theresa and her husband. 4 Shipping news This 1945 Fortune magazine transportation issue is a gift Albon tracked down for an 10 United states alumnus in the shipping industry. The cover Albon picked up this Organization of art is by Ralston Crawford, who was born in American States flag while on a trip to Albon’s hometown of St. Catherines, Ontario. Washington, D.C., with international students (a trip supported by Helen Crider Smith ’56 and Gordon Smith ’54). The visit 5 Can you hear me now? to the headquarters of OAS was arranged Albon has kept his first cellphone from 1993, with the help of Erinn Nicely ’95, who a gift from his father. “It worked the last time I worked at the State Department and was checked it,” he says. assigned to the OAS.

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Above: Matt Bixler with his late son, Sam Right: Bixler stood in for his son as an honorary coach at the Oct. 13 football game versus Wabash.

Bixler memorial scholarship honors passion for learning and teaching

s his dad tells it, Sam Bixler ’10 was always a very when he died,” says Matt. Sam was working on his master’s curious kid who excelled at basketball, lacrosse, degree in education policy and leadership studies from and football. But it wasn’t until Ohio Wesleyan that Boston University. Athings really “clicked.” Sam and his sister, Meredith, both attended public “He really came into his own, he flourished,” saysMatt school in Denver. Their high school was a magnet school Bixler ’78. “He was passionate about history, he really loved for international students and refugees, with more than 30 it, and he turned into a voracious reader.” countries represented among the student body. “Very early Sam also found a home with the Battling Bishops football on he decided he wanted to teach young people,” Matt says. team. He played strong side linebacker and made all- After graduating from OWU, Sam worked for Boys & conference one game. Mike Hollway, who coached for 25 Girls Club in Denver, then later at AmeriCorps in Lawrence, seasons including Sam’s, helped recruit Sam to follow in his Massachusetts, then at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School parents’ footsteps in coming to OWU. (CRLS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as an advanced- Sam’s mother, Kim Potter Bixler ’77, of Glen Falls, placement history and social studies teacher in 2017. New York, died Dec. 13, 2017, after a long struggle with “I found out at the celebration of life event held in his Parkinson’s disease. Her two sisters also attended OWU, as honor at the high school that he drew a lot of kids into his did Matt’s sister and brother-in-law. classes, kids that normally wouldn’t try out for AP classes. Sam was walking home one night in Cambridge, They wanted to hear it from Sam. He had this way of being Massachusetts, in January 2018 when he was struck by a car. with kids,” says his dad. He passed away Feb. 14 as a result of his injuries. He was 29. Matt recalls that a CRLS faculty leader said Sam was To honor Sam’s love of history and encouragement of “beyond good — he was one of the greats.” In an article in students, as well as his own family legacy at OWU, Virginia Cambridge Day about Sam, Julian Knight, an 11th-grader at Craighead ’72 and Michael Brooks ’71, friends of Sam’s CRLS, called him “an amazing teacher and extremely kind parents, established the Sam Bixler ’10 Memorial Scholarship to everyone.” in April. Says Matt: “We are all saddened by the loss of our “He had a passion to share what was working for him, dear Sam, but grateful for the amazing impact he had on which was excelling academically, in sports, and in life. He others during his short life. This is a tribute to him as well wanted to pass that on to other kids, and he was doing that as OWU.” Gifts and Gratitude Gifts and Gratitude WINTER 2019 | 13

Robbins endowment in Bahrick’s honor announced at Psychology reunion

ore than 100 former students and faculty members gathered on campus Oct. 5 to celebrate the Psychology MDepartment’s 100th anniversary at Ohio Wesleyan and to honor two of its legends, who had more than 100 years of combined experience. Harry Bahrick joined the department in 1949 and retired in 2006, remaining an emeritus member of the faculty and co-authoring a 2013 book with psychology Professor Lynda Hall and former associate professor of psychology Melinda Baker summarizing more than 50 years of research on maintenance of knowledge. Bahrick established the Memory Lab during his illustrious tenure, funded by a succession of grants over 40 years. Most recently, he received the Association for Psychological Science’s To view a video Mentor Award, which history of the recognizes psychology department, researchers and educators visit owu.edu/ who have shaped the future magazine direction of science by Harry Bahrick, pictured at the Psychology fostering the careers of students and colleagues. Department’s 100th anniversary celebration Oct. 5, One of those colleagues was David O. where President Rock Jones announced that Professor Robbins, who joined the department in 1973 and David Robbins (left), who died Sept. 30, had established specialized in neuroscience; the neuroscience an endowment in honor of his good friend and mentor. program was named in his honor in 2011. Robbins Dea DeWolff, wife of Robert Kail ’71, who gave an died Sept. 30, leaving an indelible mark on his introduction for his former professor, applauds. department and OWU following his many roles within the administration (see obituary, Page 47). In a testament to that community, in June, Giving to an In reflecting on her late colleague at the Robbins quietly established the Harry P. Bahrick endowment Honors Tutorial Endowment with a gift to the reunion, Professor Vicki DiLillo noted how much Anyone can make he’d been looking forward to the evening. Connect Today, Create Tomorrow campaign a gift to the Harry “David is in no small part the reason we are all to honor his dear friend in perpetuity. The P. Bahrick Honors here tonight,” DiLillo said. “I cannot overstate endowment will enhance the honors tutorial Tutorial Endowment. programs and educational experiences of his contributions to the department and to the Robbins’ family honors students with support for their research, University.” suggested those Beyond that, DiLillo noted: “David had the gift internships, or travel to conferences. who wish to may of hospitality. He relished opening his home to President Rock Jones announced Robbins’ make a gift in his his students and his colleagues. Most of us here gift, which was a surprise to most. memory to the David tonight had the pleasure of attending at least one “The focus on my award was overwhelming O. and Janice S. Psychology Department picnic in his backyard.” for me,” said Bahrick. “David Robbins’ gift in my Robbins Summer “While David’s absence tonight is palpable, name tells so much more about him than about Science Research I am certain that he would have wanted us to me. His death is a wrenching loss for me. His Endowment. embrace this opportunity to reflect on our history, impact on OWU and all who had the privilege Visit owu.edu/give to connect with one another, and to celebrate the of knowing him is unforgettable, as is his huge and click “other” or members of this community.” contribution to all colleagues and to OWU.” call 740-368-3315. 14 | OWU OWU Connection

(Below, clockwise from lower left) Nathan Amador Rowley, assistant professor of geology-geography; Laurie Anderson, professor of botany/microbiology, Tyler Sink ’19, Makaila Weir ’21, Delanie Baker ’19, and Peyton Hardesty ’20 on the La Sal Range in southeastern Utah.

On a mission to Moab: Travel-learning course contrasts environments Photos by Mark Schmitter ’12

rofessor Laurie Anderson’s “BOMI 344 — Plant Communities and Ecosystems” travel-learning course explored the interactions between plantsP and their environment. The upper-level course combined lectures and lab work, including a trip to Moab, Utah, during mid-semester break in October. Students were able to contrast the desert plant communities in the red-rock canyon lands, as well as the pinyon-juniper woodlands and subalpine forests there, with the environment in Ohio and observe how plant communities change and adapt along an elevational gradient. And the view wasn’t half bad, either. (To learn more about these and other OWU Connection opportunities, visit owu.edu/connection.) OWU Connection OWU Connection WINTER 2019 | 15 16 | OWU Alumni Profile

Artist Day captures Manning’s famous audible on canvas ill Day ’93 has always been drawn to the idea, as he puts it, of bringing different minds together. At Ohio W Wesleyan, he pursued majors in international studies and French because he thought he wanted to be a diplomat. Instead, he ended up in finance and working as an architectural consultant before a layoff in 2007 presented him with the opportunity to reinvent himself as an artist. “We all have to find a way to enter into what we love,” Day says.

For Day, this meant painting Left: Will Day and with a plan. He met with his most Peyton Manning entrepreneurial friends and created an inside Mile High art inventory program, a way to lease his Stadium in Denver, art to local businesses around Boulder, site of Manning’s Colorado. “It was going to companies last four seasons of and saying: ‘Let me help fill your walls his 18 in the NFL. with some of my art that’s contemporary, Opposite page: clean, and new.’ ” Day’s commissioned It worked. Day was slowly able to 8-by-7-foot work build a business and full-time career to Omaha captures support his family, including his wife, the frenetic energy Aimee, son, Spencer, 14, and daughter, and intensity of Abigail, 12. Manning at the After meeting JP O’Brien, the CEO line of scrimmage. and managing partner of Black Lab It takes its name Sports through their sons’ lacrosse from Manning’s league in 2016 Day took up residence in trademark audible call and now resides a studio inside the sports tech incubator on the club level of and business accelerator’s offices, the Mile High Stadium. embodiment of his desire to combine viewpoints. In early 2018, his home base led to another connection, this time with Mac Freeman, the chief commercial officer Day met with Manning to discuss the intention was to capture Peyton’s legacy of the Denver Broncos NFL team, and project. “He said, ‘When I’m at the line, on the field by combining physical form another opportunity to combine two that’s the most tense, because that’s with my abstract, layered, textural style…. disparate worlds: Day was commissioned when the real things happen….I want My goals with the finished piece are to capture legendary quarterback to be able to capture this moment of twofold: first, to invite Peyton’s fans into Peyton Manning on canvas. movement.’ ” his shoes so they can experience the The No. 18 jersey, command control Day worked on the piece for three timeless moment I chose to represent at the line of scrimmage, and shouts of months, settling on a final size of 8 feet his career: clock ticking, adversaries “Omaha” are familiar hallmarks of the tall and 7 feet wide. “I wanted to capture approaching, crowd roaring, and future Hall of Famer, who is best known something bigger than him, I wanted the pressure building. Finding clarity in the for his time with the Indianapolis Colts vertical to be about Peyton’s silhouette,” chaos is something we can all aspire to, but went out on top after winning Super Day says. whether in helmets and pads or in your Bowl 50 in 2016 with the Broncos. In an artist statement, Day wrote: “My chosen daily uniform.” Alumni Profile WINTER 2019 | 17

Photos courtesy of Will Day

The piece was unveiled in August, Right: The and was featured in a documentary Day family: that aired on the Denver NBC affiliate. Spencer, It now hangs on the club level of Abigail, Mile High Stadium, where the team Aimee, and Will. plays. As a Broncos fan, Day calls the experience a career highlight. “Ohio Wesleyan taught me to say, ‘What is your dream? Go get it – we’ll figure it out,’” he says. “If a sports guy like Peyton Manning can really relate and understand my story, it was the most powerful thing.” — Molly Vogel 18 | OWU

After a 57-year hiatus, and a full year of planning, the Marching Bishops have returned to OWU the band is back in town

By Joe Meyer

h what?” shouts the band director. “ “Oh-Woo!” answers the band. “Oh what?” “Oh-Wooo!” “Oh what?” “OH-WOOO!” The marching band is taking Othe field again at Ohio Wesleyan and is ready to make some noise. After just five weeks of practice, the 31 men and women who make up the Marching Bishops performed a rousing halftime show during OWU’s season opener against Wooster on Sept. 15. The last WINTER 2019 | 19

Cody Lunder ’22 (far left) and Hannah Cordes ’19 (front, center) show spirit as members of the six-person flag-twirling color guard in the marching band.

Photo by Mark Schmitter ’12 20 | OWU

Photo by James D. DeCamp

time an OWU marching band strutted Mary Kate McNally (left and above, center), on the grass at Selby Stadium, John F. director of marching and spirit bands, leads the band during a halftime performance on Kennedy was president, and it was 1961. Sept. 15. The band’s halftime routine for the season is on the nose. In a show titled “Back in Town,” the Marching Bishops and cheer and crank up the crowd with pace through four songs – the theme from music and general zaniness. The “William Back to the Future, “I Want You Back” by Tell Overture” is involved. Members the Jackson 5, “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom alternate heckling opposition players with Petty, and “The Boys Are Back in Town” by performing a selection of their “stand Thin Lizzy. (Get it?) songs” like “Crazy Train” and stanzas For the 1 p.m. game against Wooster, on Photo by Lisa DiGiacomo from “Tell” to punctuate game action and a sunny day with temperatures pushing timeouts. into the upper 80s, close to half of the listen attentively, then swap positive As Wooster lines up to kick off, a home-side crowd appears to be there critiques. drumroll emanates from the percussion for the band (no offense to the Battling But the band members are there to section. All the band members join in with Bishops, who go on to win 9-7). For the support the football team. Before the an anticipatory “Ohhhhhh …” as the kicker halftime show, the fans cheer, clap, and game, seated in the stands, they chant approaches the ball, and a loud “WOOOO!” WINTER 2019 | 21

got to make a band and people paid me to do it. It’s pretty awesome – I’m not going to lie. I really did luck all the way out.” Most of the first year of her job was devoted to recruiting, visiting high schools, and attending music-educator association events to spread the word that marching band was returning to OWU. She also worked with the Office of Admission to identify incoming students with an interest, resulting in 24 first-year students in the band. On the way to 76 trombones Thirty-one is not a large number for a marching band. But it’s a long way from zero. “That’s a good number to start with,” Photo by James D. DeCamp McNally says of her group. “And they’re Above: Bob really, really phenomenal students. Very the Bishop focused, very driven. You don’t have to tell inspects the them a whole lot.” troops during a down moment McNally has worked with much at the OWU v. smaller ensembles. The native Wooster game of Monument, Colo., received her Sept. 15. undergraduate degree in music education Left: OWU’s from Henderson State University in marching band Arkansas in 2012. She moved back to in the 1930s. Colorado to teach in public schools for three years before coming to Ohio to earn her master’s in music conducting at Kent State in 2017. Teaching in Colorado, “I was in a very rural town in a very rural district,” she says. when the ball is struck. It is music to the routines, and rehearsal plans. More “My high school band at its largest crowd’s ears. than this, she’s working to reintegrate when I was teaching there was 12. So The fanfare is the result of more than marching band into the campus and anything over 20 was going to feel a bit a year of planning and recruitment by community culture, with appearances like a vacation.” Mary Kate McNally, who leads the band at Main Street Delaware’s “First Friday” McNally anticipates the numbers in mirrored sunglasses and with the celebration, the tailgate at Homecoming will grow as news of the band’s return personal passion of 1,000 pep bands. & Family Weekend, and a surprise spreads. The initiative to revive the Coming on as Ohio Wesleyan’s director celebration of President Rock Jones’ 10th Marching Bishops was launched in of marching and spirit bands in August anniversary at OWU. response to prospective student interest. 2017, she’s spent a year recruiting band McNally moves quickly and talks The band is a club, operating within members and prepping music, marching faster. “This is my dream job,” she says. “I the University’s Division of Student 22 | OWU

Drumline instructor Jack Boulis claps the tempo for the band before they begin a drill exercise at practice in August. Photo by Lisa DiGiacomo

Engagement and Success. As a club, class band that will rehearse just a couple Proctorville. Black plans a career in politics, credit isn’t offered – and McNally says of times a week and perform at home as a politician or someone involved with she’s sought to establish the band with basketball games. Students are free to campaigns. A concert band member the time constraints of her students in participate in one band or both. since seventh grade, and marching band mind. “We have over a dozen academic member since eighth, she says playing in departments represented in the band, OWU’s band is helping her feel at home. which means that schedules vary widely Banding together “It’s going really well. I like the family from one student to the next. It was really Members of the band hail from all aspect the small group has, and it’s important to me this first year to keep the corners of the campus. All but a handful amazing to be a founding member of it.” time commitment super, super reasonable were leaders in their high school Aleea Ratcliff ’22, a first-year for those students that participate.” marching bands. More than a dozen saxophone player from Fairborn, Ohio, The Marching Bishops practice three academic majors are represented, near Dayton, is double-majoring in evenings a week, and performances are but McNally aims to recruit widely. zoology and environmental studies, with focused on home football games with “(We have) literally everything from an English minor. She was a little worried appearances at other key events. The band astrophysics to zoology. I feel like I want the football team would be mad at the was featured throughout Homecoming to be a Pokemon Master while I’m here, band, but she says that didn’t happen. “We & Family Weekend and will march in the and try to ‘catch ’em all.’ We’ve got over were just trying to have fun and get the Delaware Christmas Parade in December. 90 majors here, so ...” team motivated. At most (high) schools, After football season, the ensemble Political science is represented by the relationship between the band and will switch gears to become the Bishop Danielle Black ’22, a first-year clarinet the team is not that great – but not here. Basketball Band, a winter-season pep player from the small Ohio River city of Everyone is nice and we’re all excited,” WINTER 2019 | 23

Photo by Troy Mueller The ‘W’ the marching band spelled out at halftime of the game against Wooster also stood for “win:” The Battling Bishops prevailed 9-7.

Ratcliff says. It’s been fun for the group with different musical and marching style Band formations: backgrounds to come together. “I think it’s cool that we’ve changed some things There’s an app for that (on campus). I think we’ll grow next year, lotting each movement in terms of size.” for each musician in a Maddie Marusek ’22 is a first- marching band takes time. It year clarinet player from Gahanna, used to mean giant packets of Ohio, where she marched in her high paper for each band member, school’s 200-member band. But she says with a football field on each sheet marching in OWU’s modest band was a and dots to represent the member’s great early introduction to the tightknit P moves. Twenty moves in a song? That’s community she’s finding at Ohio 20 sheets for each member. And each Wesleyan. “I really like everyone. I feel song is a separate set. There are slightly like we were able to bond really quickly more eco-friendly condensed diagram in band camp, and we all knew someone options, but any edit still requires reams terms of drill reading can do what’s when school started,” Marusek says. of paper per redo. best for them,” she says. “My roommates say I do everything But the newly reintroduced Some like the view with the whole with band people, and it’s true – even Marching Bishops have gone fully field, some just want to see their spots trips to Walmart.” digital, thanks to an app called Pyware. and steps. “And I don’t care how they do Joe Meyer is a freelance writer from Director Mary Kate McNally writes it. I just care that they do it,” McNally Westerville, Ohio. the drills using Pyware, and the band says. members use its 3D viewer to learn Clarinet player Danielle Black ’22 ap- them on their mobile devices. preciates the technology. “It’s very nice online The app allows performers to view to not have the papers blowing away the overall formation or just one when you march.” Alumni share memories of the original member’s movements. It provides McNally says the software saves Marching Bishops at owu.edu/magazine directions and animates the set. Each money and time. And the instructions set has its own list of instructions, are never left back in the students’ To view a video of the new Marching Bishops performing at the season opener allowing the band member to watch dorms rooms. “They’re not going to for- – and the 1951 band at Homecoming, what they do when and how. “Students get their drill, because they never forget visit owu.edu/marchingband. who come from different traditions in their phones,” she notes. 24 | OWU

OWU’s first lady, Melissa Lollar Jones, worked with Rock’s executive assistant Janet Lewis and members of the Student Involvement Office to pull off a surprise celebration Sept. 25 in Hamilton- Williams Campus Center. T-shirts echoing those made for his inauguration were handed out, along with Rock-sicle sticks (his face on a popsicle stick), and, of course, cupcakes.

OWU Magazine: Let’s start with the surprise celebration. What’d you think? Rock Jones: There were so many things about it that I enjoyed, most importantly the energy of the students and the support of the faculty and staff who were present. I enjoyed the “16” T-shirts echoing the ones that were created 10 years ago when I began. That was really fun for me.

Photo by Paul Vernon OWU: You mention the energy of the students. Your schedule is so packed, how do you find the enthusiasm for each day? Rock: Well, the students certainly provide the energy. It’s also very important to do things necessary to maintain energy. I take time in the summer to replenish, then I’m careful to devote my time in the places that have the most long- term impact for the University and that also give me the energy and fuel that I need. So if there’s an athletic event and I’m in town, I’ll be there. If there’s a theatre performance and I’m + in town, I’ll be there. If there’s a campus lecture and I’m in town, I’ll be there. The energy fades if Q A I lose that contact with the students. OWU: Can you pick a favorite part of your job? WITH Rock: The favorite parts of the job all involve people. I have the extraordinary pleasure and honor to interact with a lot of different people at a lot of different places in life. Obviously, the students are the focus. Watching them grow and evolve over four years and being at ROCK a setting where the president knows students well and can really interact with them is deeply his summer marked 10 years since ROCK JONES rewarding. And it’s rewarding now a decade in assumed the role of president of Ohio Wesleyan, to be at alumni events and to hear from young women and men I knew as students talk now making him the 10th president of OWU’s 16 to reach about life after OWU and how OWU prepared that milestone. Just a few days after a surprise them. Melissa and I also get to interact with celebration to mark his decade in office, Rock sat down alumni who are involved in leadership in every T sector of our society, who have great passion for with OWU Magazine editor Molly Vogel to look back, look OWU, and who want nothing more than for their forward, and discuss the 24/7 job of being president of alma mater to thrive. Then there are the faculty and staff who devote their lives every day to our OWU — even if it’s 10:30 p.m. in a grocery store. mission, who are the heart and soul of OWU and whose dedication inspires me every day. WINTER 2019 | 25

OWU: You just mentioned the incredible breadth OWU: Are those challenges something you feel of people you interact with, and anyone who PEBBLES the broader OWU community understands? has ever emailed you knows that you’re very Have you ever Rock: I think they do. There has been some responsive. How are you able to keep up with binged a TV show? remarkable work by the faculty: the creation of Lark Rise to that? Candleford (BBC) the new majors, the Bachelor of Science degree, Rock: It takes time. Email can consume you. I have and This Is Us (NBC) the advancement of The OWU Connection, and always wanted to be accessible, and I do make it the new sports, the marching band, the programs a point to reply to every email I receive, but I have What are your to provide additional academic support and also learned that there are times when I have to favorite podcasts? improve retention. All of those are responses to Anything NPR: put that on hold to ensure that the work that is Freakonomics, these challenges, and I think Ohio Wesleyan’s going to have an impact for the next 25, 30 years This American Life, faculty and administrative leadership have is not put on the back burner. I do my best to not How I Built This responded more briskly than many. finish the day without being current on email. OWU: What do you wish people knew about OWU? OWU: I think everyone knows the tyranny of Rock: The students who come to Ohio Wesleyan, the inbox. What’s something about your job that who work hard and do well, when they graduate people would be surprised to learn? they are competitive with the best students from Rock: The president’s home here (Pritchard any small college in the country, including those House), which is very comfortable and where that are ranked the very highest. I don’t think we are happy and honored to live and where we the outside world understands that. At Ohio Do you have a host between 75 and 100 events each year — it’s hobby? Wesleyan, the attention that students receive amazing the number of people who think we Cooking. I read exceeds peer institutions. The OWU Connection don’t live there, who think that we just have novels in the is an extraordinary set of opportunities for official events there. Also, it’s a very public life. summer; I enjoy students to connect what they learn in class and historical fiction. I can be at Kroger at 10:30 at night and someone Gardening, when I on campus to prepare them for life beyond OWU, will stop to want to ask a question about OWU, have time for it. and our surveys show that this is not as well- and that’s all right. known as I think it should be. Last great book OWU: Is there a part of your job that you have to you read? OWU: In that context, now entering your second Mudbound by Hillary psych yourself up for? Jordan and The decade in your role, are you starting to think Rock: In some ways, the biggest challenges Blood of Emmett Till about what you want your legacy to be? can be the most interesting but they can also by Timothy Tyson Rock: I think the legacy of any president at an be the most consuming, so working through a institution of our sort at this time, given the particularly dense spreadsheet is not likely my What is your challenges I was just describing, would be to favorite getaway favorite part of the job. It’s a lot more fun to be leave the institution where it is healthy and destination? raising money with donors than to be balancing Ocracoke Island, vibrant and where its mission continues to a budget internally, although both are important. North Carolina be fulfilled with a foundation that protects it well into the future. We have a campaign to OWU: How has your job changed in 10 years? Do you have a complete that supports that legacy. We have an favorite AVI meal? Rock: This is not so much about being president Not yet, I tend to enrollment problem to solve that is critical to at Ohio Wesleyan as it is about being president eat salads. This is that legacy; I think we’re moving on that. We of a good small liberal arts college. These are a job where you have a residential life facility problem to solve difficult times. There are headwinds in our sector have to be careful in order to fulfill that legacy. Those are the big that face all small colleges: Demographics are what you eat. areas of focus for me over the next five years changing, preparation for college has changed, that I think contribute to that ultimate legacy of family resources have changed. There are fewer staying strong, vibrant, and vital as a residential, students with the preparation and the resources, undergraduate liberal arts university and even with the very generous financial aid we perpetuating the mission of an institution that provide. There are more questions about the educates moral leaders for a global society. value of a liberal arts education than ever before. I think those questions are terribly misguided. OWU: Do you allow yourself to think about what We have to be much crisper in demonstrating Do you have any you’ll do when you retire? the value of what we do and why it matters. To guilty pleasures? Rock: Yes. It will involve some combination of the extent the job has changed in 10 years, it has Chocolate and books, travel, grandchildren, and continued ice cream changed not in response to internal dynamics involvement in higher education – just not but to external ones. anytime soon! 26 | OWU

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Through his work with the Peace Corps, FijiPhi Gamma Delta Alex Widman ’17 is asking fellow alumni for book donations as he builds a lasting literary legacy on the small Pacific island of Yanuca

By A.L. Davies ’19

hen Alex Widman ’17 entered his senior year at Ohio Wesleyan, he already knew that a life sitting at a desk wasn’t for him. Instead, he wanted to get out, see the world beyond Ohio, and make a direct impact through his work. WSo, like 78 OWU alumni before him, he joined the Peace Corps. “He didn’t care where he ended up getting stationed. He said he’d even go to Mongolia,” Alex’s father, Tim Widman, says. “He didn’t know he’d end up on 28 | OWU

an itty-bitty island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.” Alex has been assigned to focus on Since November 2017, Alex has been stationed 7,300 miles away from his helping the young adults of Yanuca, hometown of Bucyrus, Ohio (population: continuing an interest in working with 12,000), on Yanuca, a less-than-five-square- mile island, home to approximately 300 this age group that he developed at OWU. Republic of Fiji citizens. He is the sole American on the speck of an island and the first Peace Corps volunteer to be stationed on Yanuca since the creation of the organization by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. “One of my favorite aspects of the Peace Corps is the people-oriented approach in my job,” Alex says via email. “I work directly with the people in my community and at my school to develop projects that have a positive impact on everyone, while simultaneously showing them what I’m doing so that they can develop and manage projects after I am gone.” Alex has been assigned to focus on helping the young adults of Yanuca, continuing an interest in working with this age group that he developed while at OWU. After pinching a nerve playing football his freshman year, Alex decided to retire from the team and devote his time to community service, particularly in local elementary schools. He started volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters, despite never having tutored before, and stayed with the organization throughout his four years. “I liked tutoring so much that I later found a work-study job through (OWU director of community service learning) Photos courtesy of Alex Widman Sally Leber at the Columbus Initiative, and worked at a Linden elementary school in Columbus with kindergartners to sixth- Alex Widman tests the waters off Yanuca. have also pitched in. graders for three and a half years,” he says. He is stationed on the small Fijian island Alex’s father manages the logistics through the Peace Corps. While most Peace Corps assignments of shipping books to Fiji from Bucyrus in the area of youth empowerment work and says that, at last count, over 500 with anyone unwed between the ages of 18 spark ideas. His biggest projects focus on donated books — from popular favorites and 35, only a handful of Yanuca residents promoting literacy for elementary and like the Hunger Games series to learn-to- fall into that category; the population is middle-school students. Alex submitted read books for the younger set — have almost exclusively younger children and a Class Note to OWU Magazine about been sent to Yanuca. Tim has shipped a their older parents and grandparents. his adventure early in 2018 in which he circa-1970s World Book encyclopedia set Because of the age gap, Alex has had to requested donations of children’s books, in batches (it costs about $100 to send be creative with his assignment. But kids prompting two readers to reach out with 20 pounds of books), along with 40 or are kids the world over, and Alex has been donations. Family, friends, and his Phi so children’s books (Berenstain Bears, able to draw on his college experiences to Gamma Delta (FIJI) brothers back home Arthur, and the like) from Alex’s aunt. WINTER 2019 | 29

Alex is also writing a grant to build an PACIFIC OCEAN annex onto Yanuca’s only school. He plans to create a library and is in contact with VANUA Fiji’s Library Services office in the capital LEVU city of Suva about providing tables, chairs, TAVEUNI and shelves. “Library Services became interested in my project once they learned YASAWA that I was receiving donated books from GROUP the United States,” Alex says. “All of these donated books are in excellent shape, new LOMAIVITI GROUP or like-new. The kids love it.” Understanding and speaking English is VITI LEVU TARO SEA crucial for the students of Fiji, who speak Fijian at home. A former colony of the Suva ★ British Empire, the island nation follows a British education model. Students are Fiji Islands LAU required to pass proficiency exams entirely Yanuca GROUP in English before they can advance to the next grade. With the only high school a KADAVU boat ride away on Suva, most students, as their parents did, will choose to leave RUSSIA N 20 miles school after eighth grade JAPAN and later find work CHINA farming, fishing, or in the Fiji Islands tourism industry on other Fijian islands after they INDONESIA AUSTRALIA turn 18. Alex hopes to show students that continuing their education can be just as beneficial as entering the workforce, and to chapter for the $1,200 shipping demonstrate to other costs. “Our fraternity thrives off villagers that creating a the motto ‘Not for college days library is an investment in alone.’ This project allowed us Yanuca’s future. to assist our brother in a worthy Alex has worked to humanitarian cause that has the ensure that members of potential to impact generations to the OWU community come,” Copeland says. The picturesque island of Yanuca has no running water, spotty are investing in that electricity, and is less than 5 square miles. Alex’s drive has sparked future, too. He first interest outside his fraternity as well. reached out to his brothers either $5 or a children’s book. T. Alexandra Kermode ’83 saw the in the Theta Deuteron chapter of FIJI They also collected books at a table in Class Notes item and decided to donate last year, requesting they donate to Hamilton-Williams Campus Center and a stash of books she used to read to her Yanuca’s library as a community service reached out to FIJI alumni and families children. “I’d chosen those books and read project. Chapter president Duncan to ask for book donations. Whitbourn them to my kids when they were growing Copeland ’20 and recording secretary says the concert and book drive ended up. I couldn’t seem to part with them,” Ben Whitbourn ’19 both wanted to help up being one of the most successful she says. “But when I saw Alex’s work, I out, along with Nick Braydich ’20, Theta events Theta Deuteron has ever had. The thought, ‘What a good cause.’” Deuteron’s philanthropy committee chapter collected six boxes of books, all Among the two boxes of books chairman. They combined the book drive within a K-12 reading level, to ship to donated by Kermode were Judy with Phi Gamma Jamma, FIJI’s spring Alex in Yanuca. Braydich says alumni Schachner’s Skippyjon Jones — a favorite philanthropy concert. Admission was brothers generously reimbursed the of her children — and works by naturalist 30 | OWU

Jim Arnosky, her favorite. “I hope the children on Yanuca get the joy my kids and I got out of all those books,” she says. Mindy Williams ’00 was also inspired The 7- and 8-year-olds of Yanuca Island School show off their new books. to donate about 50 books after she read about Alex. Her father, William Bossert ’61, was a FIJI, and her grandfather, “it looked like worthwhile, lasting improvement is to Roy Bossert, was an organic chemistry work with people and empower them to professor at OWU from 1937 to 1972. “I Christmas morning. take agency over their lives,” he says. wanted to help this project, even if it’s They were tearing This idea carries into Alex’s Peace halfway across the world,” she says. Corps work, and every project he The students of Yanuca had about open the boxes and undertakes starts with an idea from 400 books donated from Australia and Yanuca’s residents. His father, Tim, says Great Britain before Alex began asking for couldn’t believe he encouraged Alex to listen to what donations, but they’re especially excited all the different people ask for and to recognize the to receive books from the United States. community’s independence. “(When the children got the books) stories.” Alex says his transition to Fijian life it looked like Christmas morning. They wasn’t difficult. Peace Corps volunteers were tearing open the boxes and couldn’t Alex Widman ’17 do two and a half months of required training at their assigned location, and believe all the different stories,” Alex about books donated Alex spent his attending local events like says. Among the children’s favorite books to Fijian children are Disney fairytales, Dr. Seuss books, and “Kava Circles,” community gatherings the Harry Potter series. where locals sit around and drink kava, Alex cites an Interfaith Service Trip a mild alcohol made from the roots of a he took during spring break 2016 as the at Pittsburgh elementary schools, he pepper plant. “Before long, everybody catalyst for his desire to serve. He, eight felt unfulfilled after the trip. He says knew me, and I picked up much of the other students, and two faculty advisors that being in the community for only a local language,” Alex says. spent the week volunteering in downtown week felt insulting to its residents given His new neighbors were eager to learn Pittsburgh with Repair the World, a Jewish how much work still needed to be done. all about him. After he mentioned that nonprofit. While Alex loved helping in “This was the first time it occurred to me he was in wrestling club at OWU, his neighborhood development and tutoring that the only way to make any sort of new friends began challenging him to WINTER 2019 | 31

matches. News spread to a nearby village, and there, he tries to focus on the work. “I and Alex found himself being challenged approach my Peace Corps assignment as by someone who outweighed him by a job,” he says. “When in doubt, do a little 30 pounds. Alex won and says they’re social research or just make it up as you friends now. To stay active, every day go along. Don’t be afraid to be wrong.” except Friday and Saturday, Alex plays In addition to his book drive, Alex rugby with the young men in the village. is also serving as project manager for a Yanuca doesn’t have running water or playground for the elementary school roads. Alex showers in unheated collected and a cyclone evacuation shelter for the rainwater, fishing out the occasional dead island. Both of these projects are possible gecko. Electricity is spotty, depending on through grants Alex applied for, inspired the cooperation of solar panels. He has no by community suggestions. Materials refrigeration and hangs his food from the and builders have been secured for both. rafters of his house to keep the rats away. His Peace Corps assignment continues He subsists on pumpkin, rice, oatmeal, until December 2019, although he has the chickpeas, and vegetables, along with option to remain for another year. fruits that grow on his island: papaya, a concern. Alex told his father that all the “I’m really proud of what he’s done,” pineapple, wild grapes, coconuts, and kids have scars on their legs from picking Tim says. “A lot of Peace Corps volunteers breadfruit. Serious medical assistance is at mosquito bites. “It is an eye-opening are on the main island in office jobs, more than an hour away. He clears fallen experience for him,” Tim says. but he’s on his own. He has to take timber to help abate mosquitoes. Zika is Even with a little culture shock here initiative.”

‘Child of ’60s’ found purpose in Peace Corps irginia “Ginny” Pearsall Kirkwood joined the Peace Corps toughest job you’ll ever love.’ People who immediately after her graduation from Ohio Wesleyan in go in find that it changed their life.” As a self-professed “child of the ’60s,” 1964, just three years after the volunteer organization was V Kirkwood says she used to think doing created. It’s still her favorite topic. good meant she had to travel far away. Kirkwood spent two years in Turkey working in two orphanages. In Despite her global volunteerism, she’s Kirklareli, she worked to increase community involvement, including learned that sometimes doing the most good means helping out right where you organizing a coat drive for the mostly are. “You don’t have to go very far to have 3-to-7-year-old residents. “The kids never a fulfilled life,” she says. “There’s lots of left the building from October to April chances to help at home. When you can because they didn’t have coats,” she says. help someone, you should.” Kirkwood was the first in her family She and her husband, Charles, now live to get involved in the Peace Corps but was in Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania. followed by her mother and father, who Her family owns a golfing and ski resort spent two years volunteering in Malaysia. in the town, and this past August, her Kirkwood’s niece, Carrie Hessler-Radelet, community held a conference for 250 was stationed in Western Samoa from 1981 former Peace Corps volunteers. to ’83 and later became director of the Peace Ginny Pearsall Kirkwood (left) speaks As the current chair of the Pennsylvania at the 2016 Women of Ohio Wesleyan Special Olympics, she has also helped set up Corps under President Barack Obama. leadership forum held on campus with From 1990 to 1993, Kirkwood herself fellow panelist Denise Sabo Brenner ’00. Special Olympics organizations in countries served as director of the Peace Corps in like China, Thailand, and Pakistan. “I feel Thailand, the second-largest country the advisory board today. good about my career,” Kirkwood says. program at the time. She oversaw “I’ve known thousands of Peace Corps “When you’re doing something that helps 600 volunteers and focused on AIDS volunteers, and I’ve never met anyone other people, it makes you feel your life has prevention programs and sustainable who wasn’t glad they did it,” she says. more meaning. It helps you realize how engineering projects, and she remains on “The motto of the organization is ‘the many blessings we have.” 32 | OWU Faculty Notes

Kira Bailey, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience, along with Jun Jiang and Xiao Xiao, published “Midfrontal theta and posterior parietal alpha band oscillations support conflict resolution in a masked affective priming task” in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. She also gave two workshops on the neuroscience of memory at SourcePoint, a community center in Delaware, Ohio, for adults 55 and older.

Jeremy Baskes, director of the OWU Global Studies Institute and Latin American studies major and professor of history, published “The Economy of New Spain” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). “The Economy of New Spain” was also published in the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. His article Kristina Bogdanov, associate professor of fine arts, delivers an i3 lecture entitled “Are We Clay?” on Sept. “La producción y el comercio 18. The popular lecture series features professors nominated by students giving three-minute talks on a del tinte de la grana cochinilla variety of topics with “ideas, insight, and imagination.” en Oaxaca, México de 1750 a See all of this year’s lectures at owu.edu/i3. 1821” accompanied an exhibit called “Rojo mexicano. La Policies” in The Global Studies course in French on the topic and Amy Spears, published grana cochinilla en el arte” at Journal (Vol. 11, Issue 2) in of immigration. She received “How Did I End Up Here? The the Mexico City Museum of 2018. He was interviewed on a Great Lakes Colleges Realities of Teaching Music Fine Arts in 2018. the radio program Voice of Association grant to support Education at Small Colleges America on the prospect of collaboration between her and Universities” in Visions of Andrew Busch ’07, assistant the U.S.-North Korea Summit own class and a class on Research in Music Education. professor of health and in June, and following the African art taught by Nancy human kinetics, presented summit on All Sides with Demerdash-Fatemi at Albion Gerald Goldstein, professor at the sixth annual National Ann Fisher on WOSU-FM. College in Michigan. Together, of microbiology, along with Strength and Conditioning Additionally, he presented students are tackling Sarah Bergman ’18, Marielle Association international “North-South Dynamics and questions about the stakes Buss ’20, Hanna Cordes ’20, conference in Madrid in Inter-Korean Rapprochement” of cultural representation Mary Cranley ’18, Nicolas September. He focused on the at a workshop hosted by and debunking myths about Reed ’18, and Malory Wolfe cumulative stresses a throwing the Bureau of Research and African culture. Cusato also ’19, published “Coriander seed shoulder must withstand and Intelligence, U.S. Department was awarded a grant from extract enhances the yield of emphasized the importance of of State, in Washington on the Digital Projects Initiative T2 bacteriophage in E. coli by screening athletes to identify Aug. 23. of the Five Colleges of Ohio stimulating adenylate cyclase” those at a higher risk for to support the collection and in Research & Reviews: A injury. He also discussed the Mary Anne Lewis Cusato, recording of oral histories from Journal of Biotechnology (Vol. best corrective strategies for assistant professor of French French-speaking immigrants 8, Issue 2, 2018). improving shoulder function and Francophone studies, in central Ohio. These oral and thus reducing the risk of published “From Tahar histories will be available to Juan Armando Rojas injuries. Djaout’s ‘No’ to Mustapha historians, sociologists, and Joo, chief diversity officer Benfodil’s ‘Enough!’: Two others who wish to learn and professor of Spanish, Ji Young Choi, associate Moments of Revolutionary about immigration through published two books in 2018: professor of politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary the voices of those who have Posmodernidad y multiforma government, director of East Algerian Literature and experienced it directly. en la obra de dos poetas Asian studies, and affiliate Cultural Activism” in mexicanos contemporáneos: professor of international Expressions maghrébines Rich Edwards, associate Alberto Blanco y Coral Bracho studies, published “The Rise (Vol. 17, No. 1). Cusato has professor of music, along (Madrid: Editorial Pliegos), of East Asian Economies, also received two grants with Scott Edgar, Kimberly and De caña de maíz y Globalization, and State to support an upper-level Councill, Edward Hoffman, miel: 12 haikus de Ohio / On Faculty Notes Faculty Notes WINTER 2019 | 33

Cornstalks and Honey: 12 Benedict Professor of Christian Ohio Haiku, edited by Paula Studies, has published a two- Lambert and translated to volume academic textbook English by Jennifer Rathbun in religion and ethics entitled (Full/Crescent Press, 2018). Religion and Ethics Today: He also published the article God’s World and Human “Advocating for a Diversity Responsibilities (Cognella and Inclusion Commitment Academic Publishing, 2019). at Liberal Arts Colleges: Both volumes cover critical Essential Conversations in and controversial issues in the Role of the Chief Diversity contemporary ethics and Officer” in Campus Diversity academic theology and Triumphs (Diversity in Higher cover a wide range of topics Education, Vol. 20, Sherwood such as the environment and Thompson ed., Emerald climate change. The books Publishing Limited). include discussion of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Sarah Kaka, assistant si” concerning human professor of education, Professor Hideyuki Takahashi, Graduate School of Life Sciences, responsibility to protect the published “Fixing the Educator Tohoku University and Chris Wolverton at a conference in environment. Shortage at the District Level” Sendai, Japan. in the American School Rashana Perks Smith, Board Journal in August. was elected as coordinator questions” of human existence assistant professor of theatre Kaka also presented two of Region 4 of the Society of in The Brothers Karamazov. and dance, performed her sessions at the international Professional Journalists. This Film footage from Cook piece “Bear Traps & Other American Educational position involves working and Plazek’s journey will be Impressions” at the Wexner Research Association’s annual with professional and student included in a spring 2019 Center for the Arts as part of conference in New York City: journalists in Ohio, Michigan, Comparative Literature Columbus Dance Alliance’s “Preservice Teachers’ Impact West Virginia, and western event, “The Great Ohio curated evening of local on Student Learning: A Mixed Pennsylvania, and advising Wesleyan Read: The Brothers dance makers. Smith’s piece Methods Approach” and SPJ chapters in the region. Karamazov.” In January 2019, reconstructs and updates “Predictors of edTPA Score.” the campus community and an older work wherein she Lynda Hall, associate dean alumni will be invited to addresses first and lasting Sean Kay, professor of for academic performance participate in a six-week online impressions as part of identity. politics and government, was and professor of psychology, reading and discussion of the mentioned in the October presented a series of four novel, which has been taught Chris Wolverton, professor of Politico article “Bernie talks on lifespan maintenance continuously at Ohio Wesleyan botany/microbiology (above), Sanders Is Quietly Remaking of knowledge at Lakeside for eight decades, including as gave lectures at the 15th the Democrats’ Foreign Chautauqua in Ohio during the part of the core Great Books Korea-Japan Joint Seminar Policy in His Own Image.” summer. course from 1941 to 1991. on Space Environment Kay, along with Dan Nexon Utilization Research and of Georgetown University, Stephanie Merkel, associate Amy McClure, the Rodefer at the annual meeting of coordinated informal foreign professor of comparative Professor of Education the Japanese Society for policy for Sanders’ 2016 literature, received assistance and chair of the Education Biological Sciences in Space, presidential campaign. They on her research on Fyodor Department, was selected both at Tohoku University in assembled a team of more Dostoevsky’s final novel, for membership on the Sendai, Japan. He discussed than 50 top advisors to The Brothers Karamazov, Outstanding International the preliminary results from his help develop international and the topic of “Mentoring Books award committee. space experiment on plants, policy for the campaign the Teacher: the Friendship Committee members which concluded in April 2018 and encouraged the hiring of Fyodor Dostoevsky and review books submitted by and returned to Earth in May. of a full-time policy staffer, Vladimir Solovyov and the international publishers and In addition, in November, Bill French of the National Genesis of The Brothers determine those that are of his Plant Gravity Perception Security Network, a now- Karamazov” from former the highest literary and artistic Team received a 2018 NASA defunct progressive foreign students Alexander Cook ’16 merit. Her appointment is for Ames Research Center Honor policy nonprofit. In addition, and Lucas Plazek ’16. The 2018 to 2020. She was also Award from more than 100 Kay’s book Rockin’ the Free pair traced the summer 1878 selected to participate on a nominations for “exceptional World: How the Rock & Roll journey of Dostoevsky and panel of literacy experts to performance in successful Revolution Changed America Solovyov from St. Petersburg to revise the standards that guide completion of a plant biology and the World was released in the Optina Pustyn monastery preparation of prospective experiment on board the ISS paperback on Nov. 30 with a in Kozelsk, Russia, which teachers in literacy instruction. (International Space Station) new afterword. Dostoevsky undertook to The work was sponsored by while working through major cope with the recent death of the Ohio Department of Higher challenges during flight.” Paul Kostyu, associate his 3-year-old son. In the end, Education. Wolverton traveled to the professor of journalism and the 25-year old philosopher center at Moffett Field, chair of the Journalism and helped the 58-year old author Kalenzi Emmanuel Twesigye, California, in November to Communications Department, grapple with the “accursed Aden S. & Mollie Wollam accept the honor. 34 | OWU Alumni Happenings Homecoming & Family Weekend

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Kelly Glassburn Augspurger ’06, who was Bob the Bishop does his best Marty McFly impression inducted into the OWU Athletics Hall of (orange vest and all) by the Back to the Future DeLorean Sarah Buggy ’18 (left) chats with Allison Fame over the weekend in tennis, with her replica that was rented for the Battling Bishops tailgate. Greeley ’18 at the tailgate. daughter, Evie, and son, Ben.

Delta Delta Delta reunion (from left): Marion “Sunny” Willis Fletcher Mini-reunion “huddles” were a feature at the tailgate again. (From left) Charles ’72, Chappie Wick ’19, Kara Reams P’19 and her daughters Hanna Hayes ’70, Alumni Association board member Andrew Sloan ’13, Dave Hume Reams and Meryl Reams ’19. ’60, and Phil Roos ’60 gathered at the Phi Delta Theta table in the shade.

Jay Tilton ’03 (center), was inducted into Kappa Alpha Thetas at their huddle included (from left): the OWU Hall of Fame in men’s golf. His wife New wrestling coach Paul Reid and his Hannah Wargo ’19, Taylor Shinaberry ’20, Kaitlyn Karishma (left), and son Neil joined him, along daughter, Madilyn, enjoyed the family- Gilson ’21, Grace McKiernan ’21, Hallie McMurtrie ’20, with his parents Jennie and Tim Tilton. friendly tailgate. Ana Borish ’19, and (front) Maia Virgei ’21. Alumni Happenings Alumni Happenings WINTER 2019 | 35

More than 1,000 Bishops and their families returned to campus Oct. 5-7 for Homecoming & Family Weekend, during which the CALENDAR Battling Bishops defeated the Kenyon Lords 49-7. Find free photos of EVENTS available for download: owu.edu/2018hfw. The following is a listing of OWU alumni events around the country. These events offer alumni, families, and friends opportunities to network with fellow Bishops and to reconnect with OWU close to home. To RSVP for an event, visit owu.edu/alumni or call (740) 368-3325.

DECEMBER 2018 December 4 – 13 | Various cities Holiday parties Details at owu.edu/2018holidays

FEBRUARY 2019 Michael Creech P ’19 helps his granddaughter Gabriella inspect February 14 | The Field Club her balloon animal options. His Sarasota Red & Black Luncheon Bob the Bishop gets an inspection by a young fan daughter, Gabriella’s aunt, at the football game. Alexandria Creech is a senior. February 15 | Royal Poinciana Golf Club Naples President’s Circle Weekend February 16 | Royal Poinciana Golf Club Naples Red & Black Luncheon

MARCH 2019 March 23 | On campus FIJI Pig Dinner March 26 | On campus Monnett Club meeting featuring Lynda Hall, professor of psychology

APRIL 2019 April 27 | Various Locations Jesse Jean ’08 holds daughter Evelyn, and (From left) Will Alford ’12, Steven Brown ’10, Lacrosse Viewing Parties his wife, Carly Jean ’07, holds their son, Silas Jolliff ’13, and John Batchelder ’12 at the April 29 | Scioto Country Club Max, at the tailgate. track & field and cross country reunion. Monnett Club meeting featuring Nikki Hildebrand Smith ’01 MAY 2019 May 17 – 19 | On campus Reunion Weekend: Celebrating class years ending in ’4 and ’9

JULY 2019 July 13 | Home of Tom and Susan Palmer Michigan Red & Black Luncheon

OCTOBER 2019 George Gauthier Award winner Jackson Winters ’61 waves at Krishna Arjune ’16 (left), Rosa Escobar ’17, who works in the October 18-20 I On campus the crowd at Selby Stadium. Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, andBhuneshwar Homecoming & Family Weekend Dick Farhney ’62 is also pictured. Arjune ’16 enjoy the nice weather out on the JAYwalk. 36 | OWU CLASSnotes

at Mason House Gallery at More Award, which is given to David Vowles ’67 was inducted 1950s the General Morgan Inn in a legal professional who has into the Greater Akron Baseball Richard Jackson ’53 is the Greenville, Tenn., in August. demonstrated outstanding Hall of Fame in August. Vowles, founder of One People, personal integrity, professional a Vietnam War veteran, the Delaware, Ohio-based excellence, and community resumed his baseball career organization that co-hosted 1960s service. in 2007, 39 years after he the Community Festival George Conrades ’61, a life graduated from Ohio Wesleyan, Celebrating Juneteenth in trustee on the OWU Board Larry Heinzerling ’67 was by joining the Kent Mudhens June. Juneteenth is a holiday of Trustees, retired from his presented with the Albert in the Roy Hobbs program. He predominantly celebrated in position as chairman of Akamai Nelson Marquis Lifetime continues to play on that team. African-American communities Technologies Inc. in June after Achievement Award by Marquis in commemoration of the eight years in the role. Who’s Who. With 50 years of Robert Rupp ’69, professor of abolition of slavery in the U.S. excellence in communications, history and political science The event was billed as a way Alice Moore Batchelder ’64, Heinzerling retired in 2017 as at West Virginia Wesleyan to bring the entire community a judge in the 6th U.S. Circuit an adjunct assistant professor College, participated in the together in a show of unity. Court of Appeals, was honored for the Graduate School of college’s panel discussion “The in May by the Catholic Diocese Journalism and the School of Constitution, Impeachment, James Clem Allison ’56 hosted of Cleveland as the 2018 International and Public Affairs and the 25th Amendment” an exhibition of his paintings recipient of the St. Thomas at Columbia University. in September. Rupp recently

Maola welcomes notes from students Vincent Maola ’56 of Swarthmore, Pa., recently reconnected with former professor of music Willis Olson at the retirement facility in Wooster, Ohio, where Olson resides. Olson celebrated his 96th birthday in September. Maola says: “Mr. Olson loves to walk the halls speaking Swedish because no one can understand him! He loves reading and listening to classical music. He sounds great on the phone and is thrilled to hear from his former students.” Anyone who wishes to connect with Olson may do so via Illinois State Fair recognizes Maola at [email protected]. Maola was Olson’s Nelson farm centennial first clarinet student and reports that he continues to Marilyn Sturdivant Nelson ’47 owns a farm perform with four groups outside Philadelphia. that has been in the Nelson family for more than 100 years, an important distinction in the Midwest. At the invitation of the Illinois Newcomb celebrates 104th birthday Department of Agriculture, Nelson and Mildred Newcomb ’41 celebrated her 104th her daughter, Lorine Etheridge, attended a birthday in July and was featured on WBNS- breakfast at the Illinois State Fair honoring TV (Channel 10) in Columbus. When asked the centennial farm families. Gov. Bruce secret to reaching 104, she replied: “Get to be Rauner was among the speakers at the 103.” Newcomb was in her 50s when she pursued event. Nelson (wearing hat) and Etheridge her doctorate and retired as head of the English are pictured with the state fair queen and Department at OWU. the state director of agriculture.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Denise Sabo Brenner ’00 Elizabeth Long Downey ’06 Sarah Kieta Kirwen ’06 Lana Rucks ’95 Alumnae Panhellenic Vice President Council Representative Justin McCoy ’07 Andrew Sloan ’13 Betsy Drew Dunn ’78 Andrea Moore ’82 Samuel Smith ’96 Sarah Bruno ’10 Erin Flynn Kristen Cemate ’06 Faculty Representative Ann Muenster-Nuiry ’73 Mary Beth Sommer ’88 Peter Chase ’74 Bob Gordon ’88 Michael Pattison ’04 Sue Struna Subel ’69 Michelle Corbett Coutts ’09 Candace Griffith ’09 Anthony Peddle ’14 Gordon Witkin ’77 Vicki DiLillo Kevin Hinkle ’94 Sheila Fagan Plecha ’84 Faculty Representative Alumni “W” Association President Scott Donaldson ’02 Representative Carrie Lippert Reinhardt ’94 Alumni Interfraternity Council Katherine Jenks ’12 Keith Rozanski ’99 Representative WINTER 2019 | 37

completed a manuscript on “The legal education. A law professor Debra Thomas Mines ’73 Central Ohio Scholar Athlete Primary that Made a President: emeritus living in Vermillion, published Stinky Shoes, a read- Award. Junk is an attorney in notes Kennedy” and is the author S.D., he is the second-longest- aloud book for children, in 2017. Washington Court House. CLASS of 1970 Battleground in West serving faculty member in Virginia, a book published by the 104-year history of the William Bouton III ’75, a Gary Patzke ’76 published West Virginia University Press. University of South Dakota corporate lawyer at Hinckley the mystery book Murder by School of Law. During his Allen, was named corporate Munchausen in 2017. tenure, he received the law law “Lawyer of the Year” on 1970s school’s annual teaching award the 2019 “Best Lawyers in Katherine Mandusic Finley Frederic Brouner ’70, an three times, the university-wide America” list. Only one lawyer ’77 was honored with the attorney at DeWitt Ross & award for excellence in teaching in each specialty in each region Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Stevens S.C. in Madison, among tenured faculty, and the is honored as a “Lawyer of the Achievement Award from Wis., was named to the 2019 South Dakota State Bar law firm Year” by the organization. Marquis Who’s Who. Finley “Best Lawyers in America” list. award for his contributions to has worked as the executive Recognizing legal excellence, legal education. William Junk ’76 was inducted director for the Organization of the list is based on a peer- into the Washington Court American Historians since 2010. review survey in which tens of Clay Small ’72 was honored House, Ohio, City Schools thousands of leading attorneys with the Southern Methodist Academic Hall of Fame. Douglas Kennedy ’77, an cast votes on the legal abilities University Dedman School of Junk was recognized for his attorney at Roetzel & Andress of other lawyers in their Law Distinguished Alumni Award scholarship, leadership, service, LPA in Cleveland, was named practice areas. for Corporate Service in April. and athleticism, earning the to the 2019 “Best Lawyers in Small retired in 2012 as senior 1972 Clarence A. Christman America” list. Charles Thatcher ’71 retired at vice president and managing Award, as well as the 1972 the end of a 43-year career in attorney at PepsiCo Inc. National Football Foundation

Fraternity brothers golf to support cancer research OWU alumni and Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers gathered in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 19 to play golf to raise funds for pediatric cancer research at Vanderbilt Hospital. From left: Guy Herrmann ’82, Daniel Bishop ’82, Peter Burrell ’81, Scott Glazer ’84, and Howard Greenstone ’83.

Burrell wins professor of the year award Peter Burrell ’81, left, was selected as the 2018 Michael Dean Undergraduate Professor of the Year at the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business. Burrell has taught law courses there part time since 1993 and full time since 2013. He also continues to practice law in Cincinnati at Pinales, Stachler, Young, Burrell & Crouse, where he has been Alumni win lacrosse named an Ohio Super Lawyer for the past 11 years. championship OWU grads from three different decades came Morey-Wong wedding together to win their second Kathleen Morey Wong ’80 straight Vail Supermasters and Allen Wong were lacrosse championship. From married on March 17 in Dublin, left: Jim Schwartz ’89, Jim Ohio. Jan Wilkin Bambach Loffredo ’95, and Tony Losito ’79, Dennis Bambach ’76, ’00 spent a week together in and Jeanne Bauer ’80 (not Vail, Colo., playing lacrosse pictured) were among the with friends and family. wedding attendees. 38 | OWU Class Notes

Thomas Rosenberg ’77 was officer of the Southern Kentucky church’s celebration of its in May. Rucker is a former named chair of the American Performing Arts Center in 100th anniversary in its current professional football player, Bar Association Forum on Bowling Green, Ky. building. two-sport All-American, and Construction Law. The forum national champion. is the largest organization of Jeffrey Long ’82 was named Thomas Cunningham ’89 construction lawyers in the director of athletics at the was named superintendent Christine Watchorn ’94 was United States. Rosenberg University of Kansas in July. of Southern Local Schools in named to Profiles in Diversity leads the construction practice Salineville, Ohio, in June. Journal’s 2018 list of “Women at Roetzel & Andress LPA, in Byron Pitts ’82 was named Worth Watching” in July. The list Cleveland. He was also named journalist in residence at recognizes women of purpose to the 2019 “Best Lawyers in High Point University in North 1990s and drive who represent America” list. Carolina. Stephen Hikida ’90 was diversity within their spheres a finalist in the American of influence. Watchorn is a Graham Miller ’78, an abstract Michael Oliver ’83 joined Photography Open 2018. Hikida partner at the Ulmer law firm in painter in Greenwich, Conn., Michael Blades and Associates was recognized for his photo Columbus. hosted a month-long exhibit as vice president and vertical titled Zander and the Polar titled “Bold Dimensions” at the transportation consultant. Bear, which was taken at the Rick Ritzler ’95 was appointed Geary Gallery in Darien, Conn., Columbus Zoo and Aquarium to the Columbus State in September. Paul Burnside ’85 performed and features his son watching Community College Board of an organ recital at Emanuel polar bears swim by. Trustees. He is the chief talent Lutheran Church in Marion, officer at Information Control Co. 1980s Ohio, in October as part of Keith Rucker Jr. ’92 was named Thomas Carto ’80 was named Marion Music Club’s monthly assistant football coach at Daniel White ’95 was named president and chief executive program series and the Capital University in Columbus superintendent of Keystone

Jones-Amanna wedding Anna Jones ’15 and Jackie Amanna ’14 were married on Aug. 3 near Asheville, N.C. OWU friends joining in the celebration were (from left): bride Amanna, Ashley Taylor ’14, OWU President Rock Jones, Brianna Robinson ’15, Jenna Reeger ’14, Zach Paul ’15, Kelly Rand ’15, Becca Fisher ’15, Kerrigan Boyd ’15, Grace Thompson ’16, William Hayes, Sara Jane Sheehan ’15, Naomi Abrams Hawkes ’14, Brenda Gable ’15, Megan Pinto ’14, Kelsey Ullom ’14, Haley Figlestahler Barber ’13, Craig Ullom, and bride Jones.

McHale-Mittan LaFrombois-Barhorst wedding wedding Rory McHale ’09 and Ciara Nathan LaFrombois ’16 and Mittan were married on June Nicole Barhorst ’16 were 23 in Berkeley, Calif. Pictured married on Aug. 4 in Milwaukee, from left (back row): Ryan with 20 OWU alumni in Sarni ’03, Stacy Snow ’11, John attendance. The wedding was Moriarty ’10, Tavish Miller officiated by OWU associate ’09; (front row:) Ross McHale chaplain Chad Johns ’02. ’10, Conor McHale ’06, the groom and bride, Vinod Saranathan ’04, and Farrukh Mushtaq ’07. Not pictured: Amanda Fisher ’09. Class Notes WINTER 2019 | 39

Local School District in Lorain, at the college in 2011, is the Ohio, in June. Previously, he was author of Between Preservation director of education at Midview and Exploitation: Transnational Schools in Grafton, Ohio. Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing John Ryan Bradley ’96 Countries (MIT Press, 2016). was named vice president, contact center operations, at Edward Canterbury ’02 was Selective Insurance Company elected in July to the Executive of America. Previously, he Committee of Henderson, served as director, center of Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., in excellence, at Erie Insurance. Fort Myers, Fla., where he is an attorney. Nicole Eiler Henry ’96 was named principal of Hebron James Vanek ’02 was named Elementary School in Hebron, principal of Independence Ohio, in June. Middle School in Independence, Ohio, in July. Rachelle Johnsson Chiang ’97 was appointed assistant clinical Jada Hamilton ’04, assistant professor at the University Hawthorne receives grant for drone-based attending psychologist at of Texas at Austin, teaching marine ecosystem research Memorial Sloan Kettering in the public health program. Cancer Center in New York She earned her DrPH in health Timothy Hawthorne ’03, assistant professor of geographic City, was named to Delta policy and management from information systems (GIS) in the Department of Sociology at the Zeta sorority’s “35 Under the University of North Carolina University of Central Florida, received a $1.25 million grant from 35” list for 2018. The list at Chapel Hill in 2017, returning the National Science Foundation to use drones to look at eelgrass highlights outstanding young back to school to complete a health along North America’s Pacific coast. He is collaborating with professionals who have made doctorate after many years of interdisciplinary partners at the Smithsonian Institution, Cornell a significant impact in their working in public health policy University, and the University of California-Davis to research industry before the age of 35. and practice. eelgrass, a coastal vegetation that is vital to overall coastal ecosystem health. Brandon Bytnar ’05, an James Campbell ’98 was At the University of Central Florida, Hawthorne leads Citizen attorney in Naples, Fla., was named principal of Pickerington Science GIS, a research organization that creates visualizations selected as a 2018 Florida Alternative School in of social and environmental inequalities through global Trend Legal Elite Up & Comer Pickerington, Ohio. partnerships. Citizen Science GIS will work with the Smithsonian in August. Joining a prestigious Marine Global Earth Observatory (MarineGEO) researchers roster of attorneys chosen for Kgutlisi Moloi ’98 was a from the Tennenebaum Marine Observatories Network to use recognition by their peers, vocalist in “Gone Too Soon,” drones to provide high-resolution mapping and imagery of Bytnar was selected in a a concert tribute to music category for attorneys under the eelgrass communities along the Pacific coast. The team will train legends that ran at the age of 40 who have exhibited community partners to operate the drones when the team cannot Lyric at Gold Reef City in leadership in the law and in their Johannesburg, South Africa, in be on site, bringing an innovative element of citizen science to community. October. the project. Through their efforts, the team hopes to understand what environmental factors play a role in the spread of wasting Adam Shank ’05 was named Timothy Baker ’99 was named disease in eelgrass communities from an ecological and geospatial executive director of the Ohio senior vice president in the perspective. Hawthorne says he is excited to combine his social Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs Equity Sales Trading Group science expertise with that of world-renowned scientists to pursue in July. Shank will lead the at JonesTrading Institutional solutions that no one discipline could solve alone. alliance’s statewide organizing Services LLC in August. and capacity-building efforts. Bringing 14 years of experience Boys & Girls Clubs serve more to the role, Baker is responsible than 44,000 youth across Ohio, for trading and account Rita McMillen-Healy ’00 at 64 sites across 15 counties. coverage, with a particular 2000s was named CPEA educator focus on special-purpose David DeBord ’00 was of the year for Canton City JoAnna Slobodnjak ’05 joined acquisition companies and named senior legal counsel Schools in Canton, Ohio, where Hospice of Southern Maine other special trading situations. for TireHub, a new U.S. tire she teaches geology and as a palliative medicine fellow distribution company that began environmental science. in June. Slobodnjak is board Scott Robertson ’99 joined operations in July. certified in internal medicine Idaho Independent Bank as Kemi Fuentes-George ’01 was and completed her residency at vice president and commercial Lauren Hall ’00 was named promoted to associate professor Wright State/Wright Patterson loan officer at the Boise branch. chief development officer at the of political science at Middlebury Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Robertson has 10 years of National Brain Tumor Society, College in Vermont. He was She received her M.D. from banking experience, primarily headquartered in Newton, also granted tenure. Fuentes- Creighton University School of in commercial lending. Mass. George, who joined the faculty Medicine in Omaha, Neb. 40 | OWU Class Notes

Andy Keatts ’06 was named Bar Association and the Ohio the men’s lacrosse team at John “Robby” Rinehart ’15 Journalist of the Year by the State Bar Association. She was Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. was promoted to Richmond San Diego County chapter of also recognized in Columbus Bank’s assistant banking center the Society of Professional Business First as one of “15 Coleman Oberli ’13 was named manager at the Ontario Banking Journalists for his work Central Ohio Young Lawyers an assistant prosecutor in Center in Ontario, Ohio. exposing misconduct at the to Know,” and published Ashland County, Ohio. San Diego Association of networking tips for young Brianna Robinson ’15 joined Governments. Keatts is a lawyers in the Columbus Bar Jennifer Eltringham ’14 was the Boston Lyric Opera in reporter and assistant editor at Lawyers Quarterly Magazine. named instructor at Kraemer August. She has a master of Voice of San Diego, a nonprofit Family Library at the University music in performance and news organization. Joe Duffy ’09, of Cleveland, of Colorado in Colorado Springs. literature degree with a is planning project manager certificate in arts leadership Caitlyn Nestleroth Johnson at Union Miles Development Jamie Richardson ’14 was from Eastman School of Music. ’08 was recognized as one Corp. and was granted named cheerleading coach of Delta Zeta sorority’s “35 certification as an economic at Garden City Community Marissa Witkovsky-Eldred Under 35,” a list highlighting development finance College in June. ’15 is serving as assistant outstanding young professional with the National coordinator for the 2019 Church professionals who have made Development Council. Calla Loadman ’15 received of the Brethren work camp a significant impact in their her master of science in season in Elgin, Ill. industry before the age of 35. speech-language pathology An attorney for the Office of 2010s from Loyola University Maryland Kristen Canda ’17 was the the Ohio Attorney General, Judson Hall ’11 was named in May and is currently artist in residence at the 2018 Johnson is recognized for assistant coach and completing a post-graduate Lancaster (Ohio) Festival in July. her work with the Columbus defensive coordinator for clinical fellowship. Her 10 featured oil and acrylic

Moller-Jacobs/Grawe wedding Rose Moller-Jacobs ’13 and Anthony Harper Grawe ’12 were married on Feb. 17 in Hilliard, Ohio. From left (back row): Shane Brandt ’13, Charles “Zeke” Alumni hike in Rocky Mountain Brechtel ’13, Grant Kilduff ’12, Adrian Morrison ’12, Guanyi Yang ’13, Allyson Hays ’13, Matthew Kaste ’12, Jonathan Rux ’12, Frank Kushnar-Sanderson ’13, National Park Five alumni who participated in OWU’s Wilderness Larry Osborne ’11, Maren Oehl Schludecker ’12, Brock Schludecker ’12; (middle Ministry program and went on wilderness treks row:) Clare Duffy Brandt ’13, Mark Ripper ’14, Nathan Eckersley ’12, Elyse Ward together as students gathered in Colorado, along ’13, Amber Kimberling ’14, Katherine Juliani ’13, Christopher Heckman ’12, with three of their spouses, for a five-day backpacking Logan Osborne ’13, Paige Phillips Osborne ’13, Priyanka Venkat ’14, Iftekhar and camping trip in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ahmed Showpnil ’13; (front row:) Devin Heath ’13, Danielle Muzina ’13, the Pictured on Gabletop Mountain are (from left): bride and groom, Sonja Petermann ’14, and Hannah Appelbaum ’14. Cora Munroe ’14, William Hayes (group leader and director of Wilderness Ministry at OWU), Naomi Abrams Hawkes ’14, Thomas DeHaas ’15, Alyson Michael ’14, and Haley Figlestahler Barber ’13. Class Notes WINTER 2019 | 41

Friedman-Martin Fellow alumni support Sadiq wedding in campaign for Ohio House Alexandra Friedman Adam Dettra ’13 (left) and Sean Harris ’97 ’09 married Reid (right) attended a fundraiser for Shareeque Martin on Sept. 23, 2017, Sadiq ’17 (middle), who was a candidate for in Oklahoma City. OWU the Ohio House of Representatives in the classmates joining in 26th district, but lost in November. the celebration were (from left): Martim Thomaz ’10, Raksha Adhikari ’10, Maggie Coleman Maxi ’09, the bride, Emilie Hanson ’12, Olivia Talbott Colopy ’09, Ryan Colopy ’07, Erin Hanahan Gatz ’10, and Kofi Quaye ’10.

Wholley-Roth Wedding Hoffman-Meyer wedding Meredith Wholley ’13 married Taylor Roth on Oct. 28, 2017, in Megan Hoffman ’12 married Eric Meyer on Aug. 25 in Columbus Nashville, Tenn. Pictured from left (front row): Gabrielle Dinkin after five years of dating. The couple was surrounded by friends, ’14, Annie Swanson ’13, Scott Rosenthal ’13, Molly Curry ’13, Emily both from Ohio Wesleyan and the John Glenn College of Public Lunstroth ’13, Mary Shinnick ’13, Steph Martineau ’14, the bride, Affairs at Ohio State University, where they met in grad school. Cate Bailey ’14, Devin Steinberg ’13, Meg Doherty ’16, Kayla Back row (from left): Kyle Lemke ’12, Tori Schlaudt ’13, Chelsea Henderson ’13, (back row): Mark Schmitter ’12, Liza Bennett ’13, Dipman 13’, Amy Siemon ’13, Tyler Mather ’12; (front row:) Taurey three groomsmen, the groom, Eileen Foley ’15, Meagan Ferns ’13, Overturf Lemke ’12, Kate Raulin ’12, Katie Hurley ’12, the bride, Kelsey Countryman Tennesen ’12, and Calina Hilyard ’13. Tim Carney ’12, and Ann Merrell ’12.

Loved ones commemorate passing of OWU classmates Classmates and families of four deceased classmates came together to com- memorate the 30th anniversary of their passing. Jeff Eddy ’90, Bill Kroener ’90, and Jay Riesz ’90 lost their lives in a car accident after attending a Russian studies conference at Oberlin College in 1988. That same year, Tom Schultz ’90 lost his life in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland. All four students were politics & government majors. Those who gathered came from seven states. Pictured from left (front row): Bob Hering ’90, Matthew Morris ’92, Paul Klatt ’93, Kirk Keller ’91; (back row:) Peter Beale, E. Marcus Case ’89, Bill Brosius ’90, Bob Abrams ’90, Jim Stilwell ’91, Roger Ward ’90, Mike Colson ’91, and Brien Donovan ’90. Not pictured: David Poss ’89, Kevin McDonnell ’92. 42 | OWU Class Notes

paintings were inspired by and Mary Jeanne Walter Stephens Jeanette Spaulding White ’76. Frank was a member of Phi produced specifically for the ’43, of Allentown, Pa., July ’42, and is survived by a sister, Gamma Delta fraternity. event, featuring moments from 11, at the age of 97. She was Corene Spaulding Grube ’44. the 2017 festival. predeceased by her parents, Sally Kreidler Griffith ’50, of H.W. Walter 1916 and Sarah Gordon Newell ’48, of Acworth, Celo, N.C., Aug. 8, at the age of Nate Axelrod ’18 joined the McElhinny Walter 1916, and Ga., Sept. 2, at the age of 90. She was predeceased by a men’s basketball coaching staff a sister, Phyllis Walter Jeffers 95. He was predeceased son, Dennison Griffith ’74. and at Oberlin College in August. ’39. She is survived by a by a sister, Mary Newell her husband, Floyd Griffith ’50. grandson, Flynn Skidmore ’12. Quackenbush ’42, and was She is survived by a daughter, Paige Haenig ’18 was accepted She was a member of Delta a member of Delta Tau Delta Anne Griffith Barrus ’80. Griffith to the University of Illinois Gamma sorority. fraternity. was a member of Kappa Alpha College of Veterinary Medicine Theta sorority. in Urbana, Ill. Haenig received Elizabeth Fyfe Faragher ’44, Hildreth Houston Spencer ’48, her bachelor’s degree in of Farmington, Conn., Aug. 18, of Adrian, Mich., July 30, at the Julian Martin ’50, of Austin, zoology from OWU with minors at the age of 96. She was a age of 91. She was a member of Texas, Aug. 6, at the age of in chemistry and psychology. member of Kappa Alpha Theta Alpha Chi Omega sorority and 89. He is survived by his wife, She was also a varsity member sorority. the OWU Tower Society. Lois Wesler Martin ’51. He was of the field hockey team and a member of Beta Sigma Tau a member of Delta Gamma Suzanne Luethi Ross ’44, of Jane Fetters Anderson ’49, fraternity and the OWU Tower sorority. Columbus, June 9, at the age of of Stryker, Ohio, Sept. 28, Society. 96. She was a member of Delta at the age of 90. She was Elizabeth Hardaway ’18 was Delta Delta sorority. predeceased by her husband, Gust Kookootsedes ’51, of The named a staff writer at The Raymond Roger Anderson Woodlands, Texas, June 1, at the Charlotte Sun in Port Charlotte, Dorothy Eckert Dent ’45, of ’50, and was a member of Chi age of 88. He was predeceased Fla. Danville, Calif., Aug. 18, at the Omega sorority. by a brother, Chris Christy ’53, age of 95. She was a member and is survived by a sister, Mary of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Carolyn Morris Conarroe Kookootsedes Jannides ’59. Births ’49, of Longmont, Colo., Aug. He was a member of Phi Delta Phyllis Bruce Hackett ’45, of 24, at the age of 91. She was Theta fraternity. 2000s Cleveland, Sept. 13, at the age predeceased by her mother, Erika Little Thomason ’02 of 95. She was a member of Catherine Fissel Morris 1912, Richard Miller ’51, of Milwaukee, and her husband Matthew Delta Delta Delta sorority. and a brother, Edward Morris Aug. 3 at the age of 91. He welcomed boy and girl twins, ’45. She was a member of was predeceased by his wife, Reid Angelo and Raelyn Grace, Harriet Smith Brush ’46, of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Marilyn Minton Miller ’50, and on April 16. Roslindale, Mass., June 5, at the was a member of Sigma Phi age of 94. She was a member Sue Basquin McCurdy ’49, Epsilon fraternity. Ryan Sir Louis ’06 and Abbey of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. of Portsmouth, Ohio, Aug. Kelley Sir Louis ’07 welcomed 4, at the age of 91. She was Thomas Long ’51, of St. Simons their first child, Eleanor Paige, Dorris Dillon Kovalick ’46, of predeceased by her husband, Island, Ga., June 8, at the age of on May 14. Odessa, Texas, June 11, at the Robert McCurdy ’47, and two 88. He was predeceased by his age of 94. siblings, Betsy Basquin Moran mother, Dorothy Crates Long ’44 and Donald Basquin ’43. 1922, his wife, Helen Simester In Memoriam Juanita Conkle Milleson ’46, She was a member of Pi Beta Long ’52, a sister, Evelyn Long 1930s of Ironton, Ohio, June 2, at the Phi sorority. Mauck ’48, and two brothers, age of 94. William Long ’51 and Albert Clara Sesler Genther ’38, of Helen Schultz Reardon ’49, of Long ’51. He is survived by Cincinnati, Aug. 18, at the age Eleanor Newcomb Rice ’46, Rocky River, Ohio, formerly of three children, Ross Long ’78, of 101. She is survived by a son, of Candler, N.C., July 20, Canfield, Ohio, July 7, at the age Lucy Long ’79, and James Long William Genther ’71, and a at the age of 93. She was of 91. She was a member of Chi ’81, and a granddaughter, Alicia grandson, Peter Yoshida ’17. predeceased by two brothers, Omega sorority. Long ’07. He was a member of Charles Newcomb ’32 and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. 1940s Alan Newcomb ’42. She was Sybil Burger Richards ’49, of a member of Kappa Kappa Hawthorne, N.J., Oct. 1., at the Edward Schwinn ’51, of Beaver, Richard Bohr ’43, of Chagrin Gamma sorority. age of 91. Ohio, June 7, at the age of 89. Falls, Ohio, Aug. 5, at the age He was predeceased by his of 97. He was a member of Phi Frederick Brubaker ’47, of mother, Beulah Hunsberger Kappa Psi fraternity and the Oxford, Pa., Sept. 26, at the age 1950s Schwinn 1918, and a brother, OWU Tower Society. of 92. He was predeceased Frank Beasley ’50, of Pompano Robert Schwinn ’53. He is by his wife, Marilyn Myers Beach, Fla., June 8, at the age survived by a brother, William Harold Higgins ’43, of Brubaker ’46, and was a of 91. He was predeceased by Schwinn ’59. Edward was a Scottsdale, Ariz., June 11, at the member of Sigma Chi fraternity. his parents, Carl Beasley 1916 member of Phi Delta Theta age of 96. He was predeceased and Aurelia Stevens Beasley fraternity. by his wife, Miriam Jones Betty Spaulding Hockin 1917, a sister, Ann Beasley Higgins ’44, and was a member ’48, of Salt Lake City, June Reider ’38, and a brother, Carl Kathryn Blayney Upton ’51, of of the OWU Tower Society. 9, at the age of 92. She was Beasley ’40. He is survived by Medford, Ore., Sept. 21, at the predeceased by a sister, a daughter, Liza Beasley Ames age of 89. She was a member Class Notes WINTERWINTER 2016-17 2019 | 4743

of the OWU Tower Society and M. Edward Gibson ’57, of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Alameda, Calif., June 1, at the age of 82. He was a member of John Bauknecht ’52, of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Westwood, N.J., Aug. 21, at the age of 87. He was Richard Gregory ’57, of Powell, predeceased by a sister, Ohio, June 26, at the age of 82. Virginia Bauknecht ’46, and he He was a member of Phi Kappa was a member of Sigma Alpha Psi fraternity. Epsilon fraternity. David Reed ’57, of Macon, Ga., James Diehl ’52, of Woodsfield, May 25, at the age of 83. He Ohio, June 5, at the age of is survived by his wife, Janith 88. He was predeceased by Root Peak ’59, and a daughter, his wife, Joanna McGill Diehl Nancy Reed ’79. David was a ’52, and a sister, Margaret member of Alpha Sigma Phi Diehl Robinson ’46. He was fraternity and the OWU Tower a member of Kappa Sigma Society. fraternity. Roommates dedicate bench in friend’s honor Robert Swope ’58, of Marvin Ludwig ’52, of Portage, Zanesville, Ohio, June 11, at the Mich., May 16, at the age of 91. Four roommates reunited at OWU in June for the first time in more age of 81. He is survived by a He was predeceased by his than 40 years to dedicate a bench in honor of their late classmate, daughter, Erin Shope Votaw wife, Ruth Bjorkman Ludwig Ann “Annley” Campana Judge ’73, who was on American Airlines ’93, and was a member of ’53. Flight 77 that was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. After Sigma Chi fraternity. purchasing the bench in Judge’s honor, the four classmates spent John White ’52, of Chautauqua, a special day together on campus in celebration of her life, visiting Sandra Linn Schiefer ’59, of N.Y., June 30, at the age of 88. the Delta Delta Delta sorority house (of which Judge was president Bucyrus, Ohio, Sept. 12, at the He was a member of Sigma Chi during her time at OWU), enjoying Bun’s restaurant for lunch, age of 82. She was a member fraternity. and sharing OWU memories. Pictured from left: Nancy Bender of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Kortright ’74, Susan Henze Twomey ’73, Mary Ellen Gray Hart ’73, , of Dayton, , of Leon Whitney ’52 and Susie Green Beckler ’73. Karla Koehn Westlake ’59 Ohio, June 2, at the age of 89. Westlake, Ohio, Aug. 6, at the He is survived by his wife, Betsy age of 80. She was a member Baldwin Whitney ’52. Leon was of Chi Omega sorority. a member of the OWU Tower Robert Cotner ’54, of He was a member of Sigma Chi Society and Kappa Sigma Georgetown, Texas, Aug. 10, at fraternity. 1960s fraternity. the age of 86. He is survived by his wife, Alsa King Cotner Gwendolyn Jackson Weigner Howard Briggs ’60, of Paradise Nancy Evans Christensen ’53, ’56, and was a member of Beta ’55, of Warwick, R.I., Sept. 10, at Valley, Ariz., Sept. 5, at the age of Hudson, Ohio, May 22, at the Theta Pi fraternity. the age of 85. of 80. He was a member of age of 86. She was a member Sigma Chi fraternity. of the OWU Tower Society and Carolyn House Dulin ’54, of Gloria Daly ’56, of Hilton Head Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Metamora, Mich., Aug. 19, at the Island, S.C., June 17, at the age Daniel Cochran ’60, of age of 86. of 84. She was predeceased by Coshocton, Ohio, July 24, at the Nancy Haig Marshall ’53, of her mother, Virginia Ellies Hume age of 80. He is survived by his Cape Elizabeth, Maine, July 22. Harry Ebeling ’54, of Kettering, ’28, and is survived by a brother, wife, Nancy Lightell Cochran She is survived by her husband, Ohio, July 14, at the age of 85. David Hume ’60. She was a ’60, and was a member of Chi William Marshall ’53, and a He was predeceased by his member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Phi fraternity. daughter, Jeanine Marshall ’85. parents, Philip Ebeling ’28 and Helen Guion Ebeling Stratton Barbara Mangun Raby ’56, of Phillip Jarvis ’60, of Lewisburg, John Mason ’53, of Toledo, ’30, and his wife, Martha Cascade, Mich., Sept. 8, at the W.Va., Aug. 12, at the age of Ohio, Sept. 3, at the age of 87. Bowman Ebeling ’54. He was age of 83. She was a member 91. He is survived by a brother, He was predeceased by his a member of the Tower Society of Delta Gamma sorority. Bruce Jarvis ’64, and was wife, Anne Lepley Mason ’55, and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. a member of Beta Theta Pi and his father, Harold Mason Harold Sawyer ’56, of Santa fraternity. ’24, and is survived by two Col. James McMillen Owen Rosa, Calif., Sept. 17, at the age brothers, David Mason ’57 and ’55 of Melbourne, Fla., July of 84. He was a member of Phi Richard Stouffer ’60, of James Mason ’55. He was a 1, at the age of 85. He was Delta Theta fraternity. Ashtabula, Ohio, July 16, at the member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon predeceased by his parents, age of 79. He was a member of fraternity. Gladys McMillen Owen ’25 Jerold Cory ’57, of Delaware, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. and William Owen ’24, and Ohio, June 27, at the age of Deane Stokes ’53, of Atlanta, a sister, Peggy Owen Pithan 87. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Driscoll Ackerman ’61, May 31, at the age of 88. He was ’54. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth Iden Cory ’55, and a of Danville, Pa., July 28, at the a member of Delta Tau Delta Roberta, sister Janet Owen daughter, Janice Cory Adams age of 78. She was a member of fraternity. Barnes ’50, and four children. ’80. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. 44 | OWU Class Notes

Rebecca Snyder Adlam ’61, of Deborah Volk Cook ’63, of Mary Strohm Clements ’67, of Milwaukee, May 9, at the age Denver, July 29, at the age of Ellington, Conn., Sept. 1, at the 1970s of 78. She is survived by her 77. She was predeceased by age of 73. She was a member of Howard Wiener III ’70, of husband and her four children her parents, Vaughn Volk ’33 Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Washington, D.C., July 9. and four grandchildren. She and Elizabeth Monahan Volk Mary Shepston Cloney ’68, of He was predeceased by his dearly loved her life at OWU ’35, and was a member of Herndon, Va., June 22, at the mother, Evelyn Dunne Wiener and all the lifelong friends she Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. age of 72. She was a member of ’45, and is survived by his wife, made there and was a member Delta Delta Delta sorority. Sharon Anderholm Wiener of Chi Omega sorority. Louise Evans ’63, of Chestnut ’70, and a sister, Susan Wiener Hill, Mass., Sept. 5. Charles Underwood ’68, of Roetcisoender ’72. He was Ann Ruston Healey ’61, of Fort Whitehall, Ohio, July 18, at the a member of Kappa Sigma Worth, Texas, Aug. 21, at the John Ludington ’63, of Key age of 72. He is survived by his fraternity. age of 78. She was a member of Largo, Fla., July 4, at the age of wife, Mary Traster Underwood Chi Omega sorority. 76. He was a member of Sigma ’68, and was a member of Beta Michael Adams ’72, of Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Theta Pi fraternity. Delaware, Ohio, June 26, at the Anne Stacy Kelty ’61, of Reno, age of 67. He was predeceased Nev., June 13, at the age of John Starkey ’63, of Portland, Valerie White Stultz ’69, of by a brother, Jeffrey Adams ’74, 76. She is survived by a sister, Ore., Aug. 1, at the age of 77. He Delaware, Ohio, June 14, at the and is survived by his mother, Dorothy Stacy Farley ’58, and was predeceased by a sister, age of 71. She is survived by Kathryn West Heiskell ’47. He was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sarah Starkey Gilliland ’59, and her husband, Francis “Buck” was a member of Delta Tau sorority. was a member of Phi Gamma Stultz ’66, and a daughter, Delta fraternity. Delta fraternity. Marny Stultz Saldanha ’99, Harold “Butch” Harvey ’62, along with two other children, Richard Lindsey ’72, of of Hillsboro, Ohio, Sept. 5, at Margaret McAllister Ward ’64, grandchildren, and extended Hopedale, Mass., July 7, at the the age of 77. He is survived of Westfield, N.J., June 25, at family. The Rev. Dr. Stultz was age 69. He was a member of by his wife, Diana Crowgey the age of 75. She is survived a retired clergy member and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Harvey ’61, and was a member by her husband, Kenneth Ward district superintendent of the of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. ’64, and two children, William East Ohio Annual Conference John Jernigan ’74, of A woodworker, visual artist, Ward ’92 and Jane Ward Tyner of the United Methodist Church Chickasha, Okla., Sept. 30, at and musician, Harvey taught in ’94. She was a member of in Delaware. Originally from the age 68. He is survived by a public schools and community Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. Pepper Pike, Ohio, she received brother, Robert Jernigan ’75. college for 50 years. her bachelor’s degree with a Richard Newberry ’65, of teaching certificate from OWU Donald Loyd ’74, of Petoskey, Sarah Stewart Welch ’62, of Seminole, Fla., June 23, at the and the State University of New Mich., June 13, at the age of 67. Denver, July 1, at the age of 77, age of 75. He was a member of York. She earned her master He was predeceased by his after a brief battle with cancer. Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. of divinity and master of arts grandmother, Anna Blackford At OWU, Welch was a zoology from the Methodist Theological Child 1912, and his parents, A. and education major, a member William Niblock Jr. ’65, of School in Ohio and her doctor Elizabeth Child Loyd ’39 and of the Dolphin Synchronized Malvern, Pa., July 23, at the of ministry in pastoral leadership John Loyd ’41, and a brother, Swim team, and a member of age of 75. He is survived by his from Wesley Theological School. Christopher Loyd ’71. Donald Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. wife, Lynne Loveless Niblock She also had a certification in was a member of Phi Delta She retired from a career as a ’65, and was a member of Beta spiritual direction from John Theta fraternity. physician’s assistant in Denver, Theta Pi fraternity. Carroll University. Stultz also and is survived by three children traveled to Haiti, Nigeria, William “Dana” Hoffhines ’79, and seven grandchildren. James Loughran ’66, of Salem, Israel, Zimbabwe, Botswana, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., on Inquiries and condolences can S.C., July 17, at the age of 73. He South Korea, Hungary, and May 25. He was predeceased be directed to her to daughter, was a member of Alpha Sigma Mozambique for educational and by his father Ralph “Monty” Kim Koilpillai, at 16974 Courville Phi fraternity. mission trips. She was a member Hoffhines ’47 and brother Dr, Northville, Mich., 48168. of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Jeffrey Hoffhines ’76, and survived by his mother Louise Judith Price Zura ’62, of Ellicott Tilton Hoffhines O’Connor ’47, City, Md., June 18, at the age of WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU his brother Eric Hoffhines ’73, 77. She was a member of Alpha and his two children and four Xi Delta sorority. Please email your news to [email protected]. grandchildren. You can also submit your news to: Sallie Dicke Cook ’63, of Attn: Class Notes Editor Include your name and class 1980s Wooster, Ohio, Aug. 8, at OWU Magazine year as well as a daytime the age of 76. She was Ohio Wesleyan University phone number, should we Christine Lindberg Molnar ’80, predeceased by her mother, Mowry Alumni Center need to reach you. Photos of Myrtle Beach, S.C., July 28, at Anna Uncapher Dicke ’35, and 61 S. Sandusky St. are welcome. Submissions the age of 60. She is survived by is survived by her husband, Delaware, OH 43015 may be edited for space. her husband, John Molnar ’80. Roger Cook ’58. She was a member of the OWU Tower The deadline for receiving Class Notes and Faculty Albert Warner ’80, of Society and Delta Gamma Notes submissions for the Spring 2019 OWU Magazine Columbus, June 23, at the age sorority. is Feb. 1, 2019. of 60. Class Notes WINTER 2019 | 45

Jeffrey Steward ’82, of dean’s list. He was not currently Chambersburg, Pa., Sept. 1, enrolled in classes. According Haycock established foundry and at the age of 58. He was a to his obituary: “Hollis was member of Tau Kappa Epsilon the humblest being and very cast metal programs, elevated art fraternity. outgoing, anyone that crossed his path saw Hollis with the Everett “Ebb” Haycock, Leslie Gilbert ’83, of Shaker biggest smile on his face. emeritus member of the fine Heights, Ohio, Aug. 21, at the Hollis could make anyone arts faculty, died June 11 in age of 57. Gilbert attended laugh and was the funniest Delaware, Ohio. He was 94. Case Western Reserve person you ever came across He was born July 4, 1923, in University Medical School and was an influence on many Newark, N.J., to Ora (Hill) and and practiced as a vascular people’s lives.” He is survived Walter Haycock. specialist with the Cleveland by his grandfather, Kenneth Haycock came to Ohio Clinic system. She is survived Calhoun, as well as his mother Wesleyan as a fine arts by her husband, daughter and and brothers, Tru and Myles instructor in 1949, becoming full son-in-law, and her son. Morrison. He is also survived by professor in 1968 and retiring in his best friend, Scott Hughes, 1985. He was the driving force Jackie Patterson ’83, of his closest friend since the first behind the creation of OWU’s Fairlawn, Ohio, June 15, at the day of first grade, who is also a foundry and cast metal program. age of 56. member of the Class of 2021. A The foundry is now located in campuswide candlelit vigil was Haycock Hall, a building named Carol Rogers Driscoll ’89, held for Morrison on Oct. 26. in his honor in 2002. of Springfield, Mass., Sept. Haycock graduated from 23, at the age of 51. She was Kutztown State Teachers a member of Delta Gamma Faculty/Staff College in Pennsylvania and received a master of art degree Ebb Haycock next to his Oracle sorority. Joseph Burke, who taught for from Columbia University. He sculpture on campus two years at OWU, of Albany, served in the Navy as a staff N.Y., Aug. 3, at the age of 86. 1990s artist during World War II and Luikart ’71, a member of the taught at Lehigh University OWU Board of Trustees; as well Lisa Davis Haren ’90, of Akron, Henry Decker, professor prior to OWU. as daughter Cindy Haycock Ohio, Sept. 2, at the age of 50. emeritus of botany, of His bronze sculpture Oracle Liscow ’76, and Jeffrey Ostrander, Ohio, July 17, at Paul Sclafani Jr. ’90, of Sandy near Beeghly Library is a Haycock, and by grandchildren, the age of 88. He is survived Hook, Conn., Sept. 22, at the campus landmark. great-grandchildren, and other by a daughter, Susan Decker age of 50. He was a member of Haycock was preceded in family and friends. McLaughlin ’89. Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. death by his wife of 73 years, Memorial contributions may

Brierly “BJ” Anderson Jr. ’94, Ernestine “Teena” Haycock, be made in his name to the of Evanston, Ill., Aug. 10, at the Sympathy to and is survived by their three Butler A. Jones House of Black age of 46. He was a member of children: Lorry Haycock Luikart Culture at owu.edu/give or by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Lori Everett ’77 for the death of ’73 and her husband Jack calling 740-368-3315. her mother, Mary Anne Everett, 2000s on July 14 at the age of 87. Dezaray Reed Fuller ’08, of Thomas Raymond ’84 and Notice of public comment North Charleston, S.C., Aug. 7, James Raymond ’90 for the Ohio Wesleyan University is seeking comments from the public at the age of 32. death of their father, George Raymond, of Riverside, Conn., about the college in preparation for its periodic evaluation on May 31 at the age of 93. by its regional accrediting agency. The college will host 2020s a visit on March 4-5, 2019, from a team of peer reviewers representing the Higher Learning Commission. The team will Hollis Oliver Morrison, a Hillary Panas Pember ’85 review the institution’s ongoing ability to meet HLC’s Criteria for member of the Class of 2021, for the death of her father, Accreditation. Ohio Wesleyan University has been accredited died Oct. 2 at his home in Jerry Panas, on July 14 at by HLC since 1913. Bidwell, Ohio. He was 19. the age of 89. He was the Born Oct. 13, 1998, he was the founder and chief executive Comments must be in writing and must address substantive son of the late Hollis Oliver officer of Jerold Panas, Linzy matters related to the quality of the institution or its academic Morrison III and Anita Darnell & Partners, a leading national programs. Morrison. His late grandmother, fundraising consulting firm. Two Tammy Calhoun, was his great years ago he visited campus to Submit comments to HLC at hlcommission.org/comment or inspiration and encouraged make a presentation to OWU’s mail them to the address below. All comments must be him to be the great man he University Advancement team. received by Feb. 4, 2019. was. Morrison graduated from River Valley High School with Katherine Edgar Mayes ’96 Public Comment on Ohio Wesleyan University a 4.0 G.P.A. and was awarded for the death of her mother, Higher Learning Commission the Horatio Alger Scholarship Suzanne Barber Edgar, on July 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 at Ohio Wesleyan. In his first 30 at the age of 70. Chicago, IL 60604-1411 year at OWU, he made the 46 | OWU Class Notes

Livingston returned to academia for second career Sally A. Livingston, a member of the Women’s Fund of Western the Department of Comparative Massachusetts to empower Literature, died in Washington, women and girls. In 2001, she D.C., on Oct. 4 after a long returned to school and received struggle with brain cancer. She her doctorate in comparative was 71. literature from Harvard University She was born Feb. 24, 1947 in 2008, where she later lectured in Montague, Mass. After the on history and comparative death of her mother, Adeline literature. (Sojka) Geraghty, when Sally In 2011, Livingston joined was just 7 years old, she lived OWU, where she was promoted with her aunt and uncle, Stella to associate professor in 2015. At (Sojka) Skrzypek and Joseph the age of 70, she was awarded V. Skrzypek, who became her tenure in recognition of her adoptive parents. work as an innovative teacher Livingston attended Sarah and a committed mentor to her Lawrence College and the students. University of Manitoba, where She was the cherished sister she earned bachelor’s and of Mary Ann (Mimi) Ginsberg and master’s degrees in Renaissance her husband, Dr. Stuart Ginsberg, history, after which she entered of Arlington, Va., and devoted the doctoral program at the fundraising, at the Seattle a partner for several years aunt to her beloved nieces and University of Toronto. Opera and the American Farm at Woods and Livingston in nephews. She spent several years School in Greece, then as Springfield before starting her Contributions in Livingston’s teaching history at Hampshire executive director of the Sisters own firm. She also served on the memory may be made to the College in Amherst, Mass. of Providence Foundation in Massachusetts Commission on Sally Livingston Scholarship She left academia to pursue Springfield, Mass. Entering Judicial Conduct. Fund at OWU or to the Women’s a career in development and the investment field, she was In 1997, she helped found Fund of Western Massachusetts.

OWU’s 12th president and first lady, Thomas and Nancy Wenzlau

Thomas E. Wenzlau ’50, He also spent a year made many friends through Ohio Wesleyan University’s as a Fulbright lecturer in her generous hospitality, 12th president, died Aug. 1 in Pakistan. support, and involvement Colorado Springs, Colo. He was During his time as in a variety of projects, 91. His beloved wife of 68 years, president of OWU from 1969 including efforts to improve Nancy Allen Wenzlau ’50, to 1984, the $33.5 million the president’s house and preceded him in death June 9. XIVth Decade development to preserve Monnett Hall She was 89. program was begun and memorabilia. She had an Tom received his Bachelor successfully completed. extensive family history at of Arts degree from OWU with Major construction projects OWU, including mother and honors. He also was elected included the Chappelear various aunts, uncles, and to Phi Beta Kappa, served as Drama Center, the Branch cousins. president of the Sigma Alpha Rickey Physical Education The Wenzlaus are Epsilon fraternity, and lettered in Center, the expansion and survived by their daughters, football, basketball, and track. In remodeling of Sanborn Hall, Kathy Wenzlau Comer 1972, he was inducted into the and the magnificent Rexford ’76 and Janet Wenzlau Battling Bishop Athletic Hall of Keller Memorial Concert Von Kraut; sons David and Fame. Organ in a remodeled Scott Wenzlau; and four He received his master’s Gray Chapel. In addition, grandchildren. and doctor’s degrees from the major advances were Contributions in their University of Illinois. made in campus computing involved in the Young Women’s memory may be made to Tom taught at Wesleyan capabilities. Christian Association, Le Bijou the Nancy Allen Wenzlau ’50 University, Kenyon College, and Nancy majored in English yearbook, varsity swimming, and and Thomas E. Wenzlau ’50 Lawrence University, where and later taught the subject. Twin-W (varsity club for women). Scholarship Fund or any other he chaired the Economics She was a member of the Kappa During her 15 years as need-based scholarship fund at Department. Alpha Theta sorority and was Ohio Wesleyan’s first lady, she OWU. Class Notes WINTER 2019 | 47

Robbins defined neuroscience at OWU David O. Robbins, a longtime member of the Department of Psychology and the Ohio Wesleyan administration, died Sept. 30 in Delaware, Ohio, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 75. (See related story, Page 13.) He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pa., on July 1, 1943 and grew up in Havertown, Pa., and Ocean City, N.J. He earned degrees from the University of Delaware and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in physiology at the Eye Research Foundation of Bethesda, Md., where he later became BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY director of research. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD LIFE TRUSTEES John Milligan ’83 | Chairperson William Blaine Jr. HON ’89 Nick Calio ’75 | Vice Chairperson Jean Fitzwater Bussell ’69 George H. Conrades ’61 Patricia Belt Conrades ’63 TRUSTEES AT LARGE Richard Alexander ’82 Evan Corns ’59 Doreen DeLaney Crawley ’91 Douglas H. Dittrick ’55 Daniel Glaser ’82 Andres Duarte ’65 Aaron Granger ’93 William E. Farragher ’49 For over 40 years, Robbins Edward Haddock ’69 Lloyd Ferguson ’62 was a professor, then provost and Carol Hilkirk Latham ’61 Robert W. Gillespie ’66 interim president at OWU. He also Jack Luikart ’71 Maribeth Amrhein Graham ’55 served as chair of the Department Todd Luttinger P ’10 Michael Long ’66 of Psychology and director of Kevin McGinty ’70 Jack McKinnie ’54 the University’s Summer Science Phillip J. Meek ’59 Research Program, and was co- Colleen Nissl ’72 C. Paul Palmer IV ’96 Carleton P. Palmer III ’64 founder of the Neuroscience Kathleen Law Rhinesmith ’64 Program. He was named an Thomas Palmer ’69 Helen Crider Smith ’56 honorary alumnus in 2008 and Anand Philip ’00 received several teaching honors, Frank Quinn ’78 James D. Timmons Sr. ’61, P ’92 including the Sherwood Dodge George Romine Jr. ’67 Tom Tritton ’69 Shankland Award and Hebert Tom Simons ’88 Welch Meritorious Teaching Award. Katherine Boles Smith ’71 GRADUATING CLASS TRUSTEES He was preceded in death Kara Trott ’83 Daud Baz ’17 by his parents, Morris and Anne Emma Drongowski ’16 Robbins, and brother, Allen Guillermo Gutierrez ’18 Robbins. He is survived by his wife TRUSTEES FROM of 47 years, Jan, their daughters, THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Drs. Cynthia Robbins and Karen Jan Baran ’70 EAST OHIO CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED Robbins; sons-in-law River Bailey Rick Doody ’80 METHODIST CHURCH TRUSTEE and Andrew Knapp; and precious Jason Downey ’02 Robert Hickson ’78 granddaughter, Lydia Robbins Peter Eastwood ’91 Knapp. He is also survived by his Martha Nunn Lewis ’83 OTHER CONFERENCES OF THE UNITED sister, Marianne, and her partner. Craig Luke ’85 Contributions in his memory METHODIST CHUCH TRUSTEE Vikram Malhotra ’87 may be made to The David O. and Myron F. McCoy ’77 Janice S. Robbins Summer Science Michael McCluggage ’69 Research Endowment at OWU. Cynthia Carran O’Neill ’81 Ellen Simpson ’77 EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Kenneth B. Sternad ’77 Rock Jones Tracie Winbigler ’87 Tracy Malone Gregory Vaughn Palmer 48 | OWU The Final Word

joined from the outset by banjo player Manny Haynes ’58. The personnel of the rhythm section changed a couple of times. Vick, the bassist, signed up in the fall of 1956. Drummer Bill Weinig ’60 also enlisted that year. Wayne Shannon, from the Kenyon College Class of 1958, a great stride pianist, played with the band whenever he could hitch a ride from Gambier, Ohio, in which case we became the Beale Street Seven. (Wayne couldn’t make it The Beale Street to the photo shoot.) Six in June 1958 Traditional jazz, also (from left): called Dixieland, is the Richard W. Hottel exuberant music of ’58, D. Manning collective improvisation Haynes ’58, invented by young Verrick O. French African-Americans ’60, William I. Weinig ’60, in New Orleans in Charles V. Brown the first decades ’58, and William of the last century. H. Coles ’58. (Photo Louis Armstrong, the by Donald E. brilliant trumpeter and Hughes ’58) composer, was an exemplar. Inspired by performances and recordings of the New Orleans originals, a dozen variants and subgenres sprang up overnight. Among the best was the music of several bands in the Midwest and New York that featured the gifted cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. We thought of the Beale Street Six as part of a storied musical continuity. Our theme song was Beale Street Blues. A small sample of our repertoire included Royal Garden Blues, Muskrat Ramble, Tin Roof Blues, Basin Street Blues, Doctor Jazz, Electric Chair Blues, and Careless Love. For four years, the Beale Street Six played fraternity and sorority parties on campus. We also staged two concerts in The Beale Street Six Gray Chapel, and The Transcript featured the band in several articles. Demand grew. In our By Charles V. Brown ’58 and Verrick O. French ’60 third and fourth years, we often played two he two of us have been good friends for 66 years and counting. weekend gigs, and we became an indelible feature of campus social life. As word spread, We played together in a swing band led by Charlie in junior high fraternities at other colleges in central and high school, and we pledged Delta Tau Delta at OWU two years Ohio booked us. We recall gigs at Kenyon, Tapart. ¶ Charlie founded the Beale Street Six, a traditional jazz band, in for example, that were neither sedate nor the fall of 1954, at the start of his freshman year. Charlie’s instrument decorous but great fun! Sixty years on, do any of us still play?

is clarinet. By a remarkable turn of luck, his Delt pledge class included Only a couple of us have kept our chops, Dick Hottel ’58, a fine jazz trumpeter, and Willie Coles ’58, an equally but we’ve never forgotten our marvelous fine jazz trombonist. The three formed the band’s front line. They were undergraduate jazz venture.

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Ohio Wesleyan’s new women’s rowing team practices on Alum Creek Lake in early October. The full eight- woman team under Coach Andriel Doolittle participated in one event this fall and will return for the spring season in March. (Photo by Mark Schmitter ’12)