ALUMNI Faculty Flashback Helen Gibbons Name: Helen Gibbons Favorite IPFW memory: Successful ceremonies! Current hobby: Volunteering Taught at IPFW: 1972–1990 Current nonprofit involvement: Habitat for Courses taught at IPFW: Introduction to Teaching Humanity, WonderLab, Girls Inc., the Monroe County ALUMNI and Business, Secondary Schools Curriculum, Public Library’s weekly book sale, Bloomington Business Communications. Hospital’s Community Health Access Program and the St. Paul Catholic Center/Newman Center at IU Volume 8, Number 6, June 2005 Bloomington. If I could tell my former students one thing: Get your education! Women need to be able to Books I’m reading and recommending: The Five provide for themselves and their families. Broaden IPFW alumnus uses his experiences People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie your horizons! and degree to help others… Turn Mountains into Molehills IPFW celebrates 40 years and 40,000 alumni! Name____________________________ No. of Golfers ______ @ $69/package PAYMENT OPTIONS (alumni dues-paying members) ..$______ Address __________________________ 1. Check: Enclosed for $ _____________ Please make check payable to IPFWAA. City____________State____Zip_______ No. of Golfers ______ @ $75/package ....................................................$______ Home phone ______________________ 2. Credit Card: Work phone _______________________ I We wish to add an IPFW coach to Charge $__________ to my credit card. our foursome. ___________________ I MasterCard I Visa I Discover E-mail ___________________________ (coach preference) Account Number____________________ ________________________________ Donation of..................................$______ IPFW Alumni is published six times Exp. Date _________________________ I I per year by the office of University IPFWAA member Nonmember Total Enclosed: $______ Signature _________________________ Relations and Communications at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499. 260-481-6807 Mail to: IPFW Alumni Association, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 www.ipfw.edu/alumni Irene Walters, Executive Director, University Relations and Communications Editor: Jennifer R. Bosk, Director of Alumni Relations (l–r) Brian Atz, Kim Avila, and Dana Reeve at this year’s Tapestry event. Produced by IPFW Publications “It still holds true that man is most uniquely human Thanks to his strong will and perseverance, Brian when he turns obstacles into opportunities.” didn't let anything stop him from graduating with a – Eric Hoffer B.A. in philosophy with minors in English and All of us can apply author Eric Hoffer's words to our psychology from IPFW. He's taken that degree, along lives. IPFW alumni even could have used them during with his experiences, and turned them into their days here on campus, turning the dismay of a opportunities to help others in similar situations as distant parking spot into an opportunity for a healthy his own. aerobic walk to class. But Brian Atz, B.A. ’89, who Home for spring break during his freshman year at didn’t have the luxury of making the hike from a Indiana University Bloomington, he was involved in a distant parking lot to his classes, of taking notes life-changing car accident. Three fractured cervical himself, or even being able to sit in class and take a spinal vertebrae left him a quadriplegic unable to test, serves as a much stronger example. breathe on his own. Molehills, Continued on page 5 2 ALUMNI Upcoming Alumni Events 30th Annual Alumni 5th Annual & Friends Golf Outing IPFW Soccer Showcase Deer Track Golf Course – Half-day on Friday, July 22, Tailgate 7 a.m. registration, 8 a.m. shotgun start for the Florida Scramble Saturday, Aug. 20, 5:30 to 8 p.m. $69 per person includes green fees, two carts per McKay Farm across from Hefner Soccer Fields foursome, one mulligan, one prize ticket, one golf Are you an IPFW, IU, or Purdue alumnus/alumna? Join us and meet IPFW, IU, gift, hearty lunch, and beer and soft drinks. and Purdue soccer coaches while eating munchies and enjoying a cash bar. New this year: Add an IPFW coach to your No cost, but we need you to R.S.V.P. for food count purposes to Kay at foursome for no additional cost! Just let us know 260-481-6807 or to [email protected]. Lots of giveaways and prizes! which coach you’d like to have join your team! There is a quick-and-easy registration form on the back of this newsletter! Save the Date Oct. 11 Oct. 13 Oct. 25 Nov. 19 7th annual Mastodon Roast (top) Mike Engels (right), '95 MBA, IPFW Alumni Student/Alumni Mentoring 6th annual Homecoming and Association president, presents student Aung Tun with Join your favorite faculty members Dinner at the Summit Club Legislative Issues Luncheon pre-game bash at the Coliseum his class ring at the annual April ceremony. Over 100 for free food, drink, prizes, and more. Sign up to mentor students who hope We need your voice to help promote IPFW vs. Loyola, but first we party at family members gathered to watch students be to enter your career field. IPFW to our Indiana legislators. the big student and alumni bash. presented with their official IU or Purdue class rings. (below) Dave, ’69 A.A.S, ’71 B.S., and Lanna Trimmer New men’s basketball chat with the School of Visual and Performing Arts coach Dane Fife, Dean, Ben Christy (right), at the Warsaw concert left, and Mark featuring IPFW ensembles. Spade, ’78 B.S, chat at the recent Fourth of July Class Notes Alumni Reception. 1971 1987 1999 Janet Aiken, M.S., M.T., has been named the Tandra Johnson, B.S., has established Tandra Keith Tarnow, A.S., has joined Coldwell Banker new chief executive officer for the Indiana/Ohio S. Johnson LLC, a law firm exclusively devoted Roth Wehrly Graber. Blood Region by the American Red Cross in ROOFTOP PARTY! to family law. Fort Wayne. Alumni & Friends Rooftop Party on top of IPFW’s Parking Garage #1! 2000 king The best and closest seats in the area to see the firework spectacular. # Covered par 1972 1990 Timothy Kuhnen, B.S. Business, has been (Fireworks will be shot off IPFW’s Parking Garage #2) Les Kreger, A.S., has been named marketing Michael Wilson, B.S., has joined Fifth Third promoted to sales manager of the Three Rivers manager for Chore-Time Poultry Production Bank as vice president of institutional Federal Credit Union Coventry branch in Systems based in Milford, Indiana. investment management. Monday, July 4, 2005 Fort Wayne. # Great m usic and fun w The N ith om Pizza Hut 1977 ew Majic 95.1 5 to 10 p.m. # $5 food certificate fr 1994 FM Brent L. Clifton, B.S., Business, of Grabill 2002 Amanda Branstrator, A.S., has been hired as Bank in Fort Wayne was honored for 35 years Dusty Bortner, B.S. Business, has been of service. Construction Administrative Assistant for $10 named branch manager of Peoples Federal # Games for the kids, including Schenkel-Shultz Architecture of Fort Wayne. stickers, per carload # P bubbles, tatoos, chalk, rizes every Savings Bank in Waterloo, Indiana. 15 minutes w 1980 hula hoops GRAND PRIZ ith a E Family Fun Thomas Eishen, B.S. Education, is now the # Much, much, more! six tickets Pack with 1997 to Cedar Poi author of “Courage on Little Round Top.” $50 gas g nt and a Jason Richman, B.S., masonry specialist, ift certificate All proceeds go to the Children of IPFW Alumni Scholarship. estimation department, has joined Hagerman 1981 Recent promotion? Dr. Jeffrey Walls, B.S. Business, professor of Construction in Fort Wayne. Job change? IPFW ALUMNI DUES PAYERS ONLY! business with Indiana Institute of Technology, has Join us at the Rooftop Party on the Fourth of July, and when you show your current IPFWAA, IUAA, or PAA dues-paid membership card, been honored with the Paul Harris Fellow award 1998 Share your news along with this coupon, you will receive… by the Anthony Wayne Rotary Club in Fort Wayne. Paul Moss, B.S. P.A., has been chosen by the with us for Class Notes Fort Wayne Business Journal as a Power Player A FREE CD from The New Majic 95.1 FM + A FREE 6-pack alumni cooler from the IPFW Alumni Association Greg Weisman, B.S. Business, has been by dropping us a line at named president of Logikos in Fort Wayne. in the field of health. Moss is the senior vice This coupon good on July 4, 2005 ONLY! www.ipfw.edu/alumni Weisman has served as interim president since president of Lutheran Health Network and May 2004. CEO of MedPartners. 3 4 ALUMNI Molehills, continued from page 1 said. “He has quietly and persistently pursued gained the use of a special computer device, his goals. We (nurses) all celebrate his Darci Too, made for people whose physical After a lengthy hospital stay, Brian settled in accomplishments and feel a great sense of disabilities keep them from being able to type. at home and decided to continue his college pride in his determination. Most people would Darci Too is unique in the fact that it creates an education. He chose IPFW because it was close not have the will or perseverance to handle this interface between the computer and a wide to his home and convenient, not to mention he kind of adversity, and I feel fortunate to have variety of keyboard alternatives. could transfer his credits easily. Most of his witnessed his achievements.” By using a technique called puff and sip, classes were in the same Brian acknowledged Greg Washington, who Brian can control his computer through Morse building, and he could taught philosophy at IPFW from 1976 to code. This now allows him to work schedule them 1983, as someone he really independently of his nurses for his schoolwork around his connected with while he was and to communicate with others with more therapy working toward his degree.