Otterbein • C O l lege Fall, 2009 Shining a new light 179600_cover indd 1 11/19/09 6 04 PM Oct. 23 Inauguration (stories and photos begin on page 14) New Equine Center Open House Tribute to Fallen Veterans (page 10) Oct. 24 Homecoming (stories and photos begin on page 46) 179600_cover indd 2 11/19/09 6 04 PM Towers Otterbein College One Otterbein College Westerville, OH 43081 Students have always been our highest priority. By supporting the Otterbein Annual Fund you’re helping every student! Your Annual Fund support will increase student scholarships, allow more students to travel abroad, upgrade technology and continue to provide the very best faculty and staff. Please give to the Otterbein College Annual Fund today by using the envelope inside this magazine, visiting our secure online giving site at www.otterbeincollege.edu/makeagift, or by calling (614) 823-1948. Please contact Jennifer Waddell ’01, Director of Annual Giving, at (614) 823-1948 or [email protected] with any questions. Contribute every year. Make a difference every day. 179600_cover indd 3 11/19/09 6 04 PM TableC ofontents VOLUME 82 • NUMBER 4 • Fall 2009 Features Science Center Opens 11 Schear-McFadden Hall has undergone a $20 million dollar renovation and addition. The Inauguration 14 Otterbein inaugurated its 20th president, Dr. Kathy A. Krendl, on Oct. 23. Meet Our New President 18 A look at President Krendl’s path in life and her initial thoughts on Otterbein. 20 Things to Know 24 About our 20th president. A fun, graphical look at favorite things and interesting facts. Regulars College News 2 President of the College • Kathy Krendl • Otterbein Security to Become Police Force ~ 2 Vice President for Institutional Advancement • Heidi Tracy • Evolutionary Scientist Speaks on Origin of Species ~ 3 Director of Alumni Relations • Becky Fickel Smith ’81 • Dee Dee Myers is 2010 Pack Lecturer ~ 4 Executive Director of Mktg. & Communications • Jennifer Slager Pearce ’87 • English Prof. Named Ohio Poet of the Year ~ 5 Editor/Designer • Roger Routson • VP for Institutional Advancement Hired ~ 5 Assistant Editor/Communications Coordinator • Jenny Hill ’05 • Mortar Board Wins National Award ~ 5 Photographer • Ed Syguda • Second Class Inducted into Athletics HOF ~ 6 • Lacrosse Comes to Otterbein ~ 6 Email: Classnotes and Milestones: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] • New Leadership Minor Offered ~ 8 • Spotlight on Faculty: Uwe Trittman ~ 9 Towers Magazine is produced in cooperation with the Alumni Council in the • Fallen Veterans Honored with Plaque ~ 10 interest of Otterbein alumni and friends. Published by the Office of Marketing & Communications, phone (614) 823-1600. • CCE Director Finishes Year as Engaged Scholar ~ 10 Towers (USPS 413-720) is published quarterly by the Office of Marketing & Communications of Otterbein College, 141 W. Park St., Westerville, Ohio 43081. ClassNotes 26 Periodic postage paid at Westerville, Ohio 43081. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Towers, Institutional Advancement, Howard House, Otterbein College, • Profile: ranF Myers (Grandma Lee) is a Star ~ 27 131 W. Park St., Westerville, Ohio 43081. Otterbein College is committed to providing equal educational opportunities Milestones 34 regardless of sex, race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, marital or parental status, veteran status, national origin or disabling condition in the admission Investing in Otterbein 42 of students, educational policies, financial aid and scholarships, housing, athletics, employment and other activities. Inquiries regarding compliance may be directed to the Alumni Notes 44 vice president for Academic Affairs, chair of the Affirmative Action Committee, or the director of Human Resources/Sexual Harrassment investigation officer. On the Cover: President Krendl is officially inaugurated as Otterbein’s 20th, and first woman, president. Photo by Doug Martin. 1 179600_text indd 1 11/20/09 1 42 PM College Newscompiled by Jeana Harrington ’10 Otterbein Security to Become Police in 2010 tterbein College Security is on Currently the department is complete advanced training. Some O target to become an official focusing on the administrative and new equipment will also police authority by July 1, 2010. legal requirements necessary for be purchased, including “We’re still in transition,” said Larry the conversion, such as proper computers, radios, Banaszak, director of security. “We’ll policies and procedures, handguns, tasers and make the full transition when we’re hiring standards and officer pepper spray. fully prepared and equipped.” contracts, among others. As a police Current security officers have A variety of updates authority, “it’s an added received training and certification to current equipment level of safety and security through the Ohio Peace Officer is necessary as well. and quicker service to the Training Commission (OPOTC) Existing security vehicles campus,” said Banaszak. and were commissioned as police will be modified with As security, officers can hold officers last February. “It’s going very police computer systems a scene; however, they cannot smoothly,” said Banaszak. “It just takes and lights, and officers will take action until the Westerville time.” undergo background checks and Police Department (WPD) arrives, 2 179600_text indd 2 11/20/09 1 42 PM which on average is a searches and seizures and starting with the department’s official few minutes later than investigate criminal activity. recognition next July. security’s response. Under “We’ll be doing all of the According to a presentation their new authority, things any regular police given last February to the Board of campus police will have force does,” he added. Trustees, most new equipment will be the power to respond Otterbein police will purchased and select staff will have to crimes in action and only have jurisdiction over salaries adjusted in the first two years. provide quicker service. campus property and they’ll By 2013, when everything is finished, “We know all of the nooks work out mutual agreements the switch will require a total budget and crannies on campus,” with Westerville Police increase of $183,414. Banaszak said. “We’ll be Larry Banaszak Department to respond to Feedback thus far has been able to respond quicker.” director of Security private residences and the “overwhelmingly positive,” Banaszak According to Banaszak, the streets surrounding campus. said. “Administrators have been very Otterbein police department will have While the transition is already in proactive and many other colleges the authority to stop and detain, arrest, progress, different aspects of the program have switched as well, it’s really the deter crimes in progress, conduct will be phased in over the next four years, way of the future.” l Evolutionary Scientist Featured in 19th Science Lecture Series Two hundred years after Charles at venues such as the American is what first engages me or my Darwin’s birth and 150 years after the Museum of Natural History and the audiences, but we now have the means publication of his On the Origin of Field Museum in Chicago. He is a to know not just what exists, but to Species, scientists are studying evolution professor of molecular biology and understand how it came to be. That at the molecular level. Sean B. Carroll, genetics and an investigator with the power makes for a deeper and much Howard Hughes Medical more complete understanding of Institute at the University of evolution and the history of life.” Wisconsin. His research has Dr. Carroll’s lecture at Otterbein centered on the genes that coincided with the opening of the control animal body patterns newly renovated Science Center and is and play major roles in the the 19th Science Lecture Series. l evolution of animal diversity. Major discoveries from his laboratory have been featured in TIME, US News & World Report, The New York Times, Discover and Natural History. He is the author of three books: Remarkable Creatures (2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), widely recognized as the leading public The Making of the Fittest (2006, W.W. voice of evolutionary science in the U.S. Norton) and Endless Forms Most today, discussed foundational questions Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo of evolutionary biology in his lecture, (2005, W.W. Norton). “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures Regarding his latest book, in the Search for the Origins of Species.” Remarkable Creatures, Dr. Carroll The lecture was held on Tuesday, Oct. 27, states: “I like to tell stories at the in Riley Auditorium in the Battelle Fine intersection of natural history Arts Center. with molecular biology, where we A fellow of the American can explain how some aspect of a Academy of Arts & Sciences, Dr. remarkable creature evolved. The Sean Carroll with Professor of Life and Carroll is a much sought after speaker natural history of some creature Earth Sciences Michael Hoggarth 3 179600_text indd 3 11/20/09 1 42 PM 2010 Pack Distinguished Lecturer Former White House Press Secretary Coming to Campus Otterbein will host a lecture by Myers’ book, Why Women 2010 Pack Distinguished Lecturer Dee Should Rule the World, considers the Dee Myers on Feb. 24, 2010. Myers question: What would happen if served as White House press secretary women ruled the world? Blending under President Clinton from 1993- memoir, social history, and a call to 1994 and is a political analyst and action, Myers challenges us to imagine commentator, contributing a not-too-distant future in editor to Vanity which increasing numbers of Fair and author women reach the top ranks of Why Women of politics, business, science Should Rule the and academia. Reflecting World. Myers is an on her own experiences in expert on the issues the political arena, Myers facing women in assesses the crucial but Washington and in long-ignored strengths that leadership positions female leaders bring to the of all kinds and one of table. “Women tend to be the top commentators better communicators, on national elections, better listeners, better the players and the at forming consensus,” issues.