MAGAZINE Spring 2015 CNBC’s JON FORTT ’98 is always in the forefront of technology coverage ALSO IN THINK: LIVE: THIS ISSUE ETHICS BEYOND THE WALLS EVERY OPPORTUNITY SPRING 2015 TO DEPAUW PERFORM MAGAZINE i HOOVER HALL With a target completion date of fall 2016, construction of Hoover Dining Hall is well underway on DePauw’s campus. Set to serve as a point of connection between students, faculty and staff, Hoover Hall will sit opposite the Union Building anchoring the northeast corner of Hanna Street and Burkhart Walk. The new dining hall will include a main dining room, along with multiple smaller dining rooms and meeting spaces for faculty and student gatherings. Once complete, the existing kitchen in the Hub will be removed creating a space between the Union Building and Hoover Hall that is approximately the same size as Ubben Quadrangle. The construction of Hoover Hall is possible thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends, including a lead gift from David and Suzanne Hoover, both Class of 1967. Interested in watching construction progress live? Don’t miss the Hoover Cam at depauw.edu/hoovercam. ii DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 DEPAUW GREENHOUSE The greenhouse in the F. W. Olin Biological Sciences Building is the only place in Greencastle where you can grow papaya, pineapple, coffee beans and vanilla beans. It’s also home to dozens of other plant species as well as faculty and student projects. 2 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 SPRING 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 3 4 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 MEN’S BASKETBALL On Feb. 28, the DePauw men’s basketball team defeated The College of Wooster, claiming the Tigers’ first conference tournament championship since joining the North Coast Athletic Conference. The fourth-seeded Tigers beat second-seeded Wooster by a 69-56 margin. The win earned the Tigers an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Tournament. SPRING 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 5 STUDY ABROAD If we're talking about study abroad, then a single photo (like this one of Madison McIntyre '17, who studied in Italy as part of the course “Architecture of Sport: Soccer and Society in Italy”) never seems to be quite enough. With DePauw students all over the globe exploring new cultures, conducting research with faculty, tackling new internships or diving into new courses on campus through the Extended Studies Program, we could probably fill an entire magazine. Or, even better, we'd love to hear from you about your study abroad stories. Write letters to us at landersn@depauw, and we'll print them in the next issue. 6 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 MAGAZINE 18 26 32 THRIVE THINK LIVE A Good Fit Ethics Beyond the Walls 21st-Century Musicians DEPARTMENTS STAFF Jonathan C. Coffin ’06 Steven J. Setchell ’96 10 News associate vice president for associate vice president for communications alumni engagement MAGAZINE 14 Recent Words [email protected] [email protected] Spring 2015 / Vol. 77 / Issue 3 www.depauw.edu/pa/magazine 36 Connections: Larry G. Anderson Contributors: Kevin Bugielski '16, Engaging with DePauw editorial director Bob Handelman, Sarah McAdams, [email protected] Linda Striggo and Christopher L. Wolfe 42 Class Notes Kelly A. Graves Cover photo and photos on pages 18-25 creative director DePauw Alumni [email protected] Association Officers by Bob Handelman. Brent E. St. John ’89, president Donna Grooms class notes editor Donald M. Phelan ’79, vice [email protected] president Larry G. Ligget Jill Robertson McNay '86, University photographer secretary [email protected] SPRING 2015 DEPAUW MAGAZINE 7 letters The fall issue of DePauw Magazine featured annotated – always with pencil – and apartment for tea and cookies. a story about “The Legend of Andrea Sununu,” evoked a sense that we were having a Andrea’s dedication to her students professor of English, and her extraordinary conversation. Once I asked Professor does not end when they graduate. Every dedication to teaching and her students. Sununu why she used pencil and not year on my birthday, I get an email from Because DePauw professors are known for pen to write comments. She spoke of the her wishing me all of the best. In 2005 their commitment to supporting students and simple pencil actually contrasting more I gave birth to twin daughters. Andrea having lifelong impact on them, we invited than ink on a typed paper and being less sent me little outfits for each of them and alumni to share their experiences with their intimidating at the same time. It does not consistently asks about them in her emails. own legendary teachers. Not surprisingly, we resemble a bloody ink massacre taking Andrea has had a profound impact on received a number of letters. – Editor. place on a student’s work. Pencil is not my life. I am so grateful I had the privilege permanent, and its eraser is used for of being one of her students. MORE ABOUT ANDREA SUNUNU making changes. Simple but empowering. Sheila Jenkins Watson ’96 Fostered passion for writing As a veteran high school English Reston, Va. Editor, teacher, I seek to make personal Dr. [Andrea] Sununu embodies the connections with my students. I have OTHER LEGENDARY PROFESSORS true spirit of service in teaching. Her made it my practice not to use red ink on Sharon Crary dedication to my success at DePauw is students’ papers. When my students write Editor, now the cornerstone of groundbreaking in pen, I smile and pick up my pencil to “Who enjoyed biochemistry in college?” was policy documents that I author for the start our conversation using the magic a question recently posed to me and a group government. Those endless hours in her language of graphite. of 10 other medical professionals. To my office, many times during the semester, Thank you, Professor Sununu, for surprise, I was the only one who raised my fostered my passion for writing. demonstrating expert knowledge of hand. As the others explained their lackluster Tajah L. Blackburn ’95 writing and evaluating writing. Just as experiences – auditorium-size classrooms, Falls Church, Va. important, thank you for your investment uninterested professors and bubble sheet in my learning – written or otherwise. exams – I realized my time at DePauw with Power of a pencil Andrea D. Smith-Ignelzi ’91 Professor Sharon Crary was unique. Editor, New Lenox, Ill. I was an eager biochemistry major I met Professor Sununu in the second planning to attend medical school semester of my senior year in 1991. That Stays in touch when she arrived in 2003. It took only first day of class, I remember her scurrying Editor, a few classes with her to realize it was into our classroom in Asbury Hall. After I have many great memories of DePauw, OK not only to love science, but also introductions, she and I discovered a but the one that comes to mind most enthusiastically share that passion with connection: the same first name. I’ve often and always makes me smile is that of others. Her comprehensive knowledge continued to learn over the last 23 years Andrea Sununu scurrying across campus, of biochemistry and ability to tie in her that teacher-student connections can be as her arms full of papers, as she rushed to personal experiences as a postdoctoral valuable as course content. attend an activity that one of her students fellow at the CDC made it relevant, The most meaningful concept I learned was involved in. interesting and literally infectious. A group from Professor Sununu, however, is not I had Andrea for English 101 during of other biochemistry majors and I even something we learned from a textbook. It my freshman year, and I remember telling scheduled our courses to ensure we could was her process of meticulously writing my mother about this amazing professor. take Sharon’s classes together, and several a zillion comments using ever-shrinking In addition to her teaching schedule, she of us worked in her laboratory. pencil nibs on everyone’s essays. met with each student twice about each Her mentoring and guidance were My returned essays from Professor paper, attended all of the activities they a critical component of my successful Sununu were thoughtfully and thoroughly were involved in and had students to her application to medical school, and my 8 DEPAUW MAGAZINE SPRING 2015 experience at DePauw would not have been the same without my own Professor Andrea Sununu. I attended Vanderbilt FROM THE PRESIDENT Medical School and am now a fifth-year Brian W. Casey plastic surgery resident at the University of Michigan. When I last wrote to you in these pages, I detailed the ambitions set forth in The Dr. Tiffany N.S. Ballard ’06 Campaign for DePauw. Since then, I have had the opportunity to meet with many of you Ann Arbor, Mich. in cities across the country as we discussed the future imagined for DePauw through this campaign. Because of the enthusiasm and generosity of our alumni and friends, I Preston Adams can report that we have surpassed $210 million on the way to the campaign’s ambitious Editor, goal of $300 million. In short, the campaign seeks to set the University firmly on the path As a microbiology major at DePauw, I was of becoming one of the strongest universities in the nation – one that attracts leading required to take a course in mycology. The students, supports them with sufficient levels of financial aid, educates them to be leaders study of fungi? I really wasn’t interested in in the world and connects them on a campus marked by profound beauty. that and dreaded taking it. Preston Adams We are well on our way.