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THERE’S A NEW PRESIDENT IN TOWN.

Monmouth College MagazineVolume 29 | Number 2 | Summer 2014

EDITORIAL BOARD

Stephen M. Bloomer ’83 Vice President for Development and College Relations

Jeffrey D. Rankin Director of College Communications

Barry J. McNamara Associate Director of College Communications

Hannah Maher Director of Alumni Engagement

Monmouth College Magazine is published by the Office of Development and College Relations for alumni and friends of Monmouth College. All opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the editorial staff or the college.

We welcome letters about the college or the magazine. Letters will be printed on a space-available basis and may be edited for length, style and clarity. Send letters, queries or submissions to: Monmouth College Magazine, 700 East Broadway, Monmouth IL 61462-1998, or email [email protected].

EDITORJeffrey D. Rankin

ASSOCIATE EDITORBarry J. McNamara

DESIGNERDebby Winter, Winter Agency

BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

William Goldsborough ’65, Chairman Nancy Snowden, Vice Chair

Gerald Marxman ’56 (Emeritus), Treasurer Karen Barrett Chism ’65

Robert Dahl Larry Gerdes

Mark Kopinski ’79Gail Simpson Owen ’74

Stanley Pepper ’76 Jack Schultz

Mark Taylor ’78 Ralph Velazquez ’79Jean Peters Witty ’88 Richard Yahnke ’66

ALUMNI BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Jeff Miller ’84, President Neil Dahlstrom ’98, Vice President

Jerri Picha ’75, Secretary

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MONMOUTH COLLEGE ADMITS STUDENTS OF ANY RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL OR ETHNIC ORIGIN TO ALL RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, PROGRAMS, AND ACTIVITIES GENERALLY ACCORDED OR MADE AVAILABLE TO MONMOUTH STUDENTS. MONMOUTH COLLEGE DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, DISABILITY, AGE, MILITARY SERVICE, MARITAL STATUS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR OTHER FACTORS AS PROHIBITED BY LAW IN ADMINISTRATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, ADMISSIONS POLICIES, SCHOLAR-SHIPS AND LOANS, ATHLETICS AND OTHER SCHOOL-ADMINISTERED PROGRAMS.

COVER: Clarence Wyatt, Monmouth College’s 14th president, and his wife, Lobie Stone, officially joined the Monmouth College community in July.

LEFT: A portrait of 13th Monmouth College president Mauri Ditzler is unveiled by chairman of the board Bill Goldsborough ’65 (left) and dean of faculty David Timmerman at a farewell reception in May for the departing leader.

COVER AND OPENING SPREAD PHOTOS BY GEORGE HARTMANN

CORRECTION: In the Winter 2014 issue, a story about William Trubeck ’68 incorrectly identified his Vietnam service unit as the 11th Armed Cavalry Regiment. It was the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.

4 Meet the presidentClarence Wyatt brings an impressive blend of credentials from four decades at Centre College

16 Where we are, how we got hereWhile building on its strong academic reputation, Monmouth has transformed in the past 20 years

20 A fond farewellOn a gorgeous May afternoon, Mauri Ditzler presided over his ninth and final Monmouth College commencement

26 Scholar-athletesThe Fighting Scots men’s golf team enjoyed great success on the course and in the classroom

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A MESSAGE TO ALUMNI

Dear Fellow Scots:

It is hard to believe it has been more than three months since we held our spring Alumni Board Meeting on Commencement Weekend. During our meeting, we went through a strategic planning process, reviewing the College’s mission statement, vision statement, strategic plan and campus master plan, in order to determine how the Alumni Board can best represent both alumni and the College. During the meeting the Board affirmed our support of the faculty, staff and students as they pursue a sustainable, vibrant and growing community, dedicated to excellence in every educational endeavor. Our desire is to serve Monmouth College by actively and effectively performing those functions that will foster attainment of the educational and life goals of prospective and current alumni.

The Board is committed to doing everything within our means to ensure that Monmouth College continues its mission of helping our students and alumni explore multiple perspectives on the human condition and prepare themselves for rich personal and professional lives—for leadership, citizenship and service in a global context. As alumni, we are united in our passion for Monmouth College!

The Alumni Board asks that alumni join with us in actively and effectively serving the College through engagement with the institution, other alumni and students. Opportunities for engagement include:

Supporting the Monmouth Fund or joining the McMichael Heritage Circle

Providing professional expertise to the College

Attending or hosting local and regional alumni events

Returning to campus for Homecoming or Golden Scots celebrations

Recommending prospective students to the Office of Admission

Attending student programs and activities

Assisting students with career networking, internships or job placement

This challenge is for all alumni to be actively involved with the College in supporting these and other projects.

I ask that you consider joining the Alumni Board in this supporting challenge. We look forward to partnering with you to advance our beloved alma mater.

Jeff Miller ‘84Alumni Board President

Sincerely,

THE MONMOUTH COLLEGE VISION STATEMENT READS: By the year 2025, Monmouth College will be nationally recognized as an excellent residential liberal arts college which, through its distinctive integrated learning curriculum, produces graduates of extraordinary character and ability who are well-prepared professionally and personally to be leaders in a complex world.

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BREAKING NEWS

MONMOUTH’S NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENTAGAIN ON PACE FOR RECORD LEVEL

Although official numbers won’t be available until early September, Monmouth College is once again bucking a national trend by preparing to welcome a record- level class of first-time freshmen.

Last year’s matriculating class was one of the largest in Monmouth College history, and this year’s admission numbers promise to be equally strong.

A year ago, the college’s Class of 2017 came within one stu-dent of the all-time record of 393 first-time freshmen. This year, the college is on pace to come close to that mark again.

Not only will the quantity of the Class of 2018 be high, but so will its quality. The average ACT score of entering students has risen by 1.3 points over the past two years. The number of out-of-state students has more than doubled during that time, and international students are up again, rising to a healthy 6 percent of the entering class.

Majors with large recent gains include economics, physics/pre-engineering, mathematics, history, music, art and bio-chemistry. The college’s new $42 million Center for Science and Business deserves some of the credit, as this year’s en-tering class was the first to be able to tour the completed facility.

But Monmouth also has exceptionally strong departments throughout its curriculum, noted Tim Keefauver, vice presi-dent for strategic initiatives.

“Students are being drawn to Monmouth’s academics for many reasons—from the opportunity to work with published professors, to performing with unique music ensembles such as the Pipe Band, Chorale and jazz and a cappella groups, to conducting scientific research side-by-side with professors and with state-of-the-art equipment in the new building.”

Monmouth’s reputation for successful outcomes is also part of the reason for the increase, said Keefauver, citing the col-lege’s recent top 15 ranking in Money magazine’s categories of Most Affordable Private Colleges and Colleges That Add the Most Value. The college’s data shows that 99 percent of 2012 and 2013 graduates were employed or enrolled in further education within six months of commencement. Additionally, a large number of the graduates found well-paying jobs, making a Monmouth degree a good return on investment.

In the Money magazine rankings, Monmouth’s graduation rate outperformed its anticipated rate by 18 percent, while re-cent graduates’ earnings outperformed the expected amount by $3,500 annually. Graduation rates were predicted based on the rates of schools with students from similar socioeco-nomic and academic backgrounds, while expected earnings were calculated using the percentage of a school’s Pell Grant recipients, standardized test scores and the mix of majors at the school.

“We believe our impressive graduation rate is in part a result of our high-touch, 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio,” said Keef-auver. “Our professors know their students personally. That not only helps them achieve in the classroom, but helps them more successfully navigate the four-year college experience.”

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NEW PRESIDENT

An accomplished history professor, college admin-istrator and community activist, Monmouth’s new president is himself a living example of how the lib-eral arts can provide the necessary tools for success to anyone willing to invest the time and talent. He was not only a member of the first generation in his family to attend college, but also the first genera-tion to attend high school—his parents only having completed the eighth grade.

“There are things a residential liberal arts college can do that no other institution can do,” said Wy-att, who has spent the last four decades of his life at Centre College in Danville, Ky., a school of similar size and academic programs as Monmouth. At the urging of a high school counselor, he entered Centre in 1974, and upon graduating with a double major in English and history, immediately went to work for its development office.

Never one to let the grass grow under his feet, Wyatt soon began taking on a growing list of fundraising and strategic planning duties at Centre, while also pursuing graduate study in history at the University

CLARENCE WYATT

When Clarence Wyatt speaksabout the transformative powerof a liberal arts education,he speaks from the heart.

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ON THE MOVE FOR THELIBERAL ARTS


NEW PRESIDENT

ABOVE: Wyatt considers his wife, Lobie Stone, an important partner in the Monmouth presidency.

LEFT: Interviewed in his new office in Wallace Hall, President Wyatt recounts some of the lessons he has learned over the course of four decades at a private liberal arts college.

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of Kentucky, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1990. Two years later, he was a full-time member of Centre’s history de-partment. In 1993, he received national attention for his book Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War, and received Centre’s distinguished young alumnus award. His expertise on Vietnam would lead him to spend a semester teaching Vietnamese and U.S. history at Hanoi University as a Fulbright Fellow. But the diversity of his interests, inspired by the liberal arts experience, would not allow him to be content in a class-room. Wyatt kept one foot in administration, becoming Centre’s chief strategist, responsible for crafting its capital campaigns and strategic plans. During his tenure, Centre achieved a growing national reputation and was the site of two vice presidential debates, which Wyatt co-chaired.

In his “spare time” at Danville, he also managed to found an award-winning main street program and develop a civil war battlefield preservation effort.

There was certainly more than enough to keep Wyatt oc-cupied in his adopted hometown, so what would cause him to decide to pull up stakes and head north after 40 years?

“It was a great combination of circumstances,” explained the 57-year-old educator. “There is a great sorting out of liberal arts colleges that is taking place now. There are se-cure colleges with billion-dollar endowments which don’t think about how they can do things better, and there are other institutions that are under such pressure that they are pursuing short-term fixes that are a recipe for either stagnation or, ultimately, failure. But Monmouth is neither of those places.”

A COLLEGE ON THE RISE“A lot of good things are starting to come together here. It’s a wonderful chance to come and be a part of a place that’s on the rise and a place where some of the experi-ences that I’ve had can be helpful,” Wyatt said.

While most college administrators have several months to transition to a presidency, Wyatt did not have that lux-ury, agreeing to take the helm July 1, just three weeks after accepting the position. He admits it has been a whirlwind, but his anchor in the storm has been his wife, Lobie Stone, whose organizational skills, energy and creativity have already been put to the test, working with director of facilities management Earl Wilfong and his dedicated team to pull off a refreshing of Quinby House’s interior that would rival for speed any HGTV makeover.

Although she is currently a professional interior designer, that is only the latest entry on her long and varied ré-sumé.

“She is an extraordinarily talented person and she is a great example of the power of a liberal arts education,” said Wyatt. “She has a bachelor’s degree in studio art, but she has in her life run a barge line, been an oil trader, been a senior vice president for marketing for a Chicago-based oil company, been a senior stockbroker, and was a crude oil derivatives trader at Enron when Enron blew up, and then she’s also had in San Antonio a very successful inte-rior design practice.”

Wyatt is quick to tell you that Lobie will be a key partner in the Monmouth presidency, and will also put her talents and enthusiasm to work in the community. “She’s a great advocate for the arts; she’s also a great advocate for sus-

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tainability,” he said. “Both of us in recent years have been involved in downtown development and historic preservation issues.”

Speaking of downtown development, Wyatt is optimistic about the future of the city of Monmouth, despite a gradual decline in business climate over the past two decades. “Everyone you talk to—whether it’s a faculty member or an administrator—is going to talk about the challenges of where you are located, whether it’s a metropolitan area or a small rural community,” he observed. “But there is an energy here, of which the college is a part, and we are ready to tap into it.

“The college being here is an absolute asset to the town, but in the same way, the town can provide a great learning laboratory—a great opportunity for service for our students—and the attractiveness of the town is a key part of students wanting to come here, and there are some great things starting to happen downtown. There’s an awareness of that in the town, so one of the things that I’ve been a part of in my previous life is that partnership between the town and the community, because each one needs the other,” he said.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONWyatt is also a fan of partnerships within a college, such as Mon-mouth’s recent interdisciplinary initiative within the Center for Science and Business.

“One of the things that residential liberal arts colleges can do that other settings can’t do nearly as well is break down the walls among the disciplines,” he explained. “Young people are not going to go out and live their lives solely as historians or economists or biologists. They may pursue careers within those areas, but even within the world of work they’re going to have to bring lots of other perspectives to things they deal with. You’re not going to be able to deal with situations in the workplace, much less within your personal life or within your service to a community, solely from the perspective of one discipline. You’re going to have to apply the perspectives of lots of different disciplines to that, and those are the lives that our students are going to lead.”

Having taught in Southeast Asia, Wyatt is a strong advocate for the off-campus study experience.

“It’s a vital truism that we live in a global community, and right here in Monmouth’s packing plant you can find 10 or 11 different languages spoken,” he said. “You can go into many establishments in a town of 10,000 in western Illinois and being able to speak Spanish can be a very handy thing. Our students live in a global society, and the more that we can help them develop that global awareness and that sense of comfort in a global society, they’re going to live lives that are more fulfilling in terms of their careers, they’re going to be more fulfilling in terms of their personal ex-periences, they’re going to be better prepared to lead in society.”

“To me, a big part of what a private liberal arts education does is to push people beyond their comfort zone,” he continued. “Study-abroad is a great concrete example of that. Being able to go to a very different culture and not only survive but thrive in it develops self-confidence that is going to empower them in every other as-pect of their lives.”

Of his short time at Monmouth, Wyatt says he is impressed, par-ticularly with the guidance and foresight provided by the board of trustees. “Every institution has facilities issues that it needs to deal with,” he said, “but Monmouth is miles and miles ahead of a lot of places in terms of the quality of its physical plant, and that doesn’t happen by accident.”

LOOKING FORWARDIs Monmouth poised to achieve a greater level of national atten-tion?

“Absolutely Monmouth is positioned to do that. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been an attractive opportunity for Lobie and me,” he said, adding, “There is no magic wand. There is no silver bullet. What it takes is a clear sense of mission, a clear sense of purpose, solid planning, a focus on key strategic steps to get there. And all of that developed by wide involvement of the whole campus community, a sense of who you are and what it is you have to offer, you look at the strengths you have, you look at the weak-nesses you have, you look at the opportunities and the challenges that are out there. You develop a plan that’s going to address all of those things through the broad involvement of the community, and then you work that plan. It’s an everyday process, but it’s a gradual process. To me, a lot of good things are coalescing in and around Monmouth.”

At what point will we know that Monmouth has arrived?

“I hope there’s never that point,” Wyatt said, “because I hope that Monmouth always stays hungry. When you stop being hungry, you stop working. I don’t care how big the endowment gets, or how many applicants we have for each slot in the entering class, or how pretty the buildings are, or how well paid the faculty and staff are, or what the test scores are—any of those numerical measures that determine the strength of a college like us, no matter what those numbers may be, I would hope that Monmouth will always be asking, ‘What’s next?’”

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A BIG PART OF WHAT A PRIVATE LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION DOES IS TO PUSH PEOPLE BEYOND THEIR COMFORT ZONE.


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Richard Marshall, formerly vice president for fi-nance and administration/CFO at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H., is MC’s new vice presi-dent for finance and business.

A native of Illinois, Marshall began his position in March.

“Richard was selected from a strong national pool,” said former president Mauri Ditzler. “One of the credentials that stood out was his range of experience as a vice president at a number of private colleges.”

Marshall’s first VP stint came in 1986 at Mac-Murrary College in Jacksonville. He held the vice president for business affairs position until 1998, when he joined the Vermont state college sys-tem as the dean of administration at Castleton State College. Marshall left Castleton in 2001 to become vice president for finance and adminis-tration at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico,

and he also served five years as vice president for administration and finance/CFO at Barton College in North Carolina before moving on to Franklin Pierce University in 2010.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to serve Monmouth College,” said Marshall, who has an MBA from the University of Illinois-Springfield. “My visit to campus during the search process confirmed that Monmouth is a very collegial community founded on strong traditions and committed to providing its students an ex-emplary educational experience. The campus community is very positive about the future of the institution, and I look forward to helping the college achieve its vision.”

Marshall completed two undergraduate degrees at Illinois College, majoring in history and in eco-nomics and business, and he has completed the Society for College and University Planning’s Planning Institute.

Monmouth College has turned to one of its grad-uates and current staff members to take over the role of vice president for development and col-lege relations.

Director of development and principal gifts Steve Bloomer ’83, who joined his alma ma-ter’s development staff in 2007, was appointed to the position in February. In making the an-nouncement, President Mauri Ditzler spoke of the positive momentum that the development office is experiencing. Just a few years after the college’s Annual Fund first reached the $1 mil-lion mark, the $2 million milestone was nearly achieved.

Ditzler noted, “Our $75 million ‘Fulfilling the Promise’ campaign is moving forward more suc-cessfully than we could have imagined. … That’s an indication of the confidence that our constitu-

ents have in the future of the college.”Ditzler said it is important that the college “seize the opportunity and build on this momentum. Who better to do that than Steve Bloomer, who has been a big part of building that momentum as he has risen through the department?”

Bloomer served for 27 years in the National Guard, where he was employed full-time 22 years and rose to the rank of colonel. From 2004 to 2007, he was the chief of staff for the Iowa Army National Guard, managing more than 1,000 full-time employees. He earned a master’s degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College and American Military University.

MONMOUTH APPOINTS VETERAN CFO MARSHALL TO OVERSEE FINANCE AND BUSINESS

BLOOMER TAKES NEW ROLE AS VICE PRESIDENTFOR DEVELOPMENT AND COLLEGE RELATIONS

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URBAN, PETERSON RECEIVE HATCH AWARDSWilliam Urban, the Lee L. Morgan Professor of History and In-ternational Studies, and accounting professor Judy Peterson received MC’s prestigious Hatch Awards during the spring se-mester.

A member of the history department since 1966, Urban received the Hatch Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Research

“His work is recognized around the world,” said faculty colleague Chris Goble while presenting the award. “His books are standard reading across central and Eastern Europe. He is an international expert on military history, especially the Baltic Crusades and the history of mercenaries.”

Peterson received the Hatch Award for Distinguished Service and “was nominated by multiple faculty members,” said faculty mem-ber Mike Connell, who presented the award.

Peterson joined the faculty in 1998, and Connell said during that time, she has been instrumental in transforming accounting into one of Monmouth’s best programs. He added, “Our graduates get great jobs and enjoy success in graduate school.”

Peterson developed and supervises what Connell called “the model Citizenship program at Monmouth College,” Volunteer In-come Tax Assistance (VITA).

MYERS AUTHORS BOOK ON RISE OF COEDUCATIONA book by visiting assistant professor of history Christine Myers received a positive review in Victorian Studies, the journal of the North American Victorian Studies Association, which called her study of the rise of coeducation a “fascinating read.”

Myers is the author of University Coeducation in the Victoria Era: Inclusion in the United States and United Kingdom.

In the review, published in the Spring 2013 issue of Victorian Studies, the University of Birmingham’s Ruth Watts wrote, “My-ers is to be congratulated on a rare comparative study on higher education in the United Kingdom and the United States. She has achieved what must have been a mammoth task by focusing strictly on one topic: the integration of women into male univer-sities and the response of society to this integration.”

DID LOCAL SPIDERS SURVIVE POLAR VORTEX?The harsh winter added a new field of inquiry to biology professor Ken Cramer’s ongoing study of the brown recluse spider: Can the poisonous arachnid survive a polar vortex? The answer, surpris-ingly, was yes.

“Having a native, wild population that I can study has been a big help,” said Cramer, who a few years ago discovered the spiders in the garage and basement of a faculty colleague.

Five years ago, research conducted by Cramer and one of his former students, Alex Maywright ’05, determined “a limiting temperature of –5 degrees Celsius for brown recluse overwinter survival.” That equates to 23 degrees Fahrenheit, but the weather in western Illinois was much colder this year.

Cramer’s brown recluse research was featured in a recent issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology. Co-authored with Richard Vetter, a research associate in the department of entomology at the University of California-Riverside, the article is titled “Distri-bution of the Brown Recluse Spider in Illinois and Iowa.”

CORDERY’S CLASS FEATURED ON C-SPANA class taught by history professor Stacy Cordery was featured on C-SPAN 3’s American History TV in July.

American History TV features a weekly series called Lectures in History, in which a video crew visits colleges across the country to tape a class session in its entirety for playback at a later date. The series features a range of classroom settings, from straight lectures presented to 250 students to seminars heavy on discus-sion with as few as six students.

At Monmouth, a visiting crew taped a session from Cordery’s sev-en-week freshman course about the 1960s.

“The class that was taped (on April 11) focused on the Women’s Liberation Movement,” said Cordery. “We discussed the ideals and goals that drove feminists and the movement, and we ex-amined several essays published by feminist writers of the time.”

The program is available on demand at www.c-span.org/History/Lectures-in-History/.

JOHNSON IS ‘TALKING POLITICS’ ON RADIO SHOWRobin Johnson ’80 has served as the moderator for two lively and informative post-election forums on campus, bringing in a balanced and engaging panel to discuss the elections of 2010 and 2012.

Now, the college’s well-connected political science lecturer is bringing that format to radio, hosting Talking Politics, a half-hour public affairs interview program on KBUR-AM 1490. The show airs Fridays at 10 a.m., following the news. Podcasts of previous programs are available on the station’s www.kbur.com website.

The first program, which aired in April, featured Des Moines Reg-

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ister political columnist Kathy Obradovich. Iowa governor Terry Branstad, who has also visited Johnson’s college classroom via Skype, Rand Paul and Chicago Tribune political reporter Rick Pearson were other notable guests from the first few shows.

LEADERSHIP EXPERT POSNER ENGAGES STUDENTSWhen national leadership expert Barry Posner asked a group of approximately 130 Monmouth students what they thought was the ONE reason he didn’t realize his dream of becoming a pro-fessional basketball player, one student chose the words of her reply carefully.

“Because you weren’t fast enough?” she timidly proposed.

Posner, a professor of leadership at Santa Clara University and co-author of the internationally-acclaimed The Leadership Chal-lenge, appreciated the delicate response, thanking her for not saying he was too slow. He fielded several other possibilities from the group of aspiring leaders before delivering one of the key lessons he wanted to teach.

“I didn’t make it as a professional player because there are not enough teams,” he said. Once the students took a few seconds to process his unexpected reason, he continued, “Fortunately, that doesn’t apply to you. For leaders, there is no shortage of oppor-tunities.”

The keynote speaker of the “Scots Leadership Challenge 2014,” Posner titled his talk “The Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership.” Those practices included: 1) model the way; 2) in-spire a shared vision; 3) challenge the process; 4) enable others to act; and 5) encourage the heart.

When heading down the leadership road, Posner told the stu-dents they first have to make an “audacious assumption.”

“You need to believe that you make a difference,” he said. “The first person you need to lead is you.”

He continued, “The question to ask is not ‘Will I make a differ-ence?’ but ‘What difference will I make?’ By asking that question, you will start to live your life in a very forward-thinking way.”

To answer his final question, “When does leadership begin?,” Posner introduced the students to “The Parable of the 12 Frogs.” He told them there were 12 frogs sitting on a log on a pond, and seven of them decided to jump in. He then asked, “Now, how many frogs are on the log?”

Some students replied “5,” and a few said “Zero.” But the cor-rect answer, Posner revealed, was “12 ... They made a decision to jump in, but there is a difference between deciding to do some-thing and actually doing it.” Posner’s appearance on campus was

made possible through a Sigma Phi Epsilon connection fostered by Monmouth College trustee Brad Nahrstadt ’89.

KELLOGG SHARES SECRETS TO TITANIC’SSUCCESS DURING WHITEMAN LECTUREDuring Mary Kellogg’s highly successful 30-year career in the television industry at CBS and The Walt Disney Company, and in her current role as co-owner and executive vice president of mar-keting, sales and operations of Cedar Bay Entertainment, she has lived by the motto “It has to be perfect.”

Kellogg returned to her Monmouth roots earlier this month to inspire students with her story and to share the business princi-ples she uses at Cedar Bay, which oversees the Titanic museum attraction in Branson, Mo. (opened in 2006) and in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (opened in 2010). True to its namesake, Titanic is the world’s largest museum attraction.

Speaking to a group of students, as well as faculty, staff, trust-ees and local business people, Kellogg first set the stage for her current career, then devoted the rest of her talk to ways that she and her staff endeavor to make the Titanic experience perfect for their guests.

There are more than 400 real Titanic artifacts at each location, and they do draw in visitors, Kellogg said. “But the heart and soul of Titanic is her passengers and their stories. We focus on bring-ing their story to life.”

Kellogg used an example from the college to illustrate her next point.

“At Monmouth, you want to make sure your faculty is happy,” she said. “If the faculty is happy and engaged, that will benefit the students and enrich their experience. Similarly, in our company, our employees come before our guests. If our employees are happy, then the guest experience is a happy one.”

In relating a story about the importance of social media today, Kellogg shared a quotation about the importance of change and moving forward that applies to other facets of her business, as well. If you are on a downward moving escalator, she said, you will go down if you stand still. The only way to go up is by running hard.

Kellogg closed by telling students that “the world is so wide open, full of new excitement and new possibilities. Embrace it with joy and excitement. Your foundation is being built right here at Mon-mouth.”

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A visit to campus last spring by one of Monmouth’s many successful alumni paved the way to summer internships for three students.

Clayton Brundige ’15 and Dillon Lehr ’15 had full-time internships at ENFOS, Inc., a commercial software company that helps companies manage their environmental impacts and cleanups on contaminated property through their advanced, high-tech software solutions. They learned about the Naperville company when its co-founder and executive vice president, Roger Well ’86, worked with several business classes throughout the spring semester. Well conducted on-campus interviews for internships, and also landing a part-time summer position with the company was his daughter, Madison Well ’15.

“(Business professor) Terry Gabel, (vice president) Steve Bloomer and (Wackerle Career and Leadership Center staff member) Marnie Dugan played a key role in engaging me with the students and getting the ball rolling on this idea,” said Well. “As a Monmouth graduate, I am very happy to have a group of Monmouth students helping us out this summer. The exposure to a high-tech company like ENFOS and to a very exciting field of study is invaluable to them. The foundation that each of the interns has brought to us from Monmouth is very strong. They are all fast learners, very conscientious about doing good work, strong team players and problem solvers. It is a win-win solution for ENFOS, Monmouth, and the students.”

“Recently, I was enrolled in a class called Corporate Social Responsibility, taught by (visiting assistant professor) Julie Rothbardt,” said Lehr. “It focused on many aspects of

a corporation and how it should act, both ethically and legally. We explored many areas and spent a lot of time on environmental aspects, which I now work with every day.”

“Monmouth helped me prepare for this internship by teaching me helpful research tactics in my history classes,” said Well, who also participated in an internship at the Art Institute of Chicago, working in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives.

Gabel used Well’s company as the basis for strategic consulting projects in the two “capstone” courses he taught during the spring semester – “Strategy and Structure” and “International Business Strategy” – which are for business and international business majors, respectively.

In the latter class, students investigated future growth strategies for ENFOS. One strategy, said Gabel, would be to perform additional services for ENFOS’ current clients, which include British Petroleum, ConocoPhillips, Pacific Gas & Electric, 7-Eleven and Sunoco. Another growth strategy is finding new corporate or governmental clients to work with, especially international ones.

His “Strategy and Structure” students

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INTERNSHIPSAT ENFOS AREA ‘WIN-WIN’

MONMOUTH HELPED ME PREPARE FOR THIS INTERNSHIP BY TEACHING ME RESEARCH TACTICS IN MY HISTORY CLASSES.

—MADISON WELL ’15

Alumnus’s commercial software company benefits from problem-solving skills of MC students, who gain valuable real-world experience.

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focused their efforts on helping ENFOS reduce its sales cycle time.

“These are very complex sales that can take up to two years to complete,” explained Gabel. “ENFOS works with huge companies, and selling to them requires an understanding of every one of their complex projects. Roger would like to cut that two-year cycle in half, and we’re trying to see if we can help him with that.”

“Professor Gabel had his classes well prepared and several of the students offered very solid ideas on topics they have been studying,” praised Well. “I was very impressed with the level of interest in my professional journey as a Monmouth alum and in ENFOS. I told the business students that the problem statements presented to them by Professor Gabel are real issues and exactly the same ones that our leadership team takes on. They were multi-faceted challenges with sometimes, complex solutions. “

Well couldn’t recall having industry leaders speak to classes during his student days.

“For students, particularly those getting ready to graduate or move along to graduate school, they really need to hear from practitioners,” he said. “This helps them connect the dots on their academic studies to the business world. And I think it adds an extra dimension if they know you were a student at Monmouth, just like they are.”

Well also met with students in Gabel’s other classes—“Principles

of Marketing” and “Midwest Entrepreneurs”—the latter of which aptly describes Well’s career. A product of Lewistown (Ill.) High School, he first succeeded professionally in geology, following up the bachelor’s degree he received from Monmouth with a master’s degree from the University of Toledo. But after a few years on the geology side of the environmental industry, Well earned an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management and switched to the business side, helping to start ENFOS in 2000. One of the company’s slogans is “$6.5 trillion of global environment liabilities doesn’t manage itself.”

Well said his company is part of the growing SaaS (software as a service) marketplace. In addition to providing environmental liability software that is currently unmatched in the market, he gave the students a glimpse into another part of the formula that has made ENFOS successful.

“Most of our research and development costs were up front. There’s maintenance and upgrades, but what we’re mainly doing now is selling the same product over and over,” with an average new contract netting more than $500,000.”

Well told the students, “I believe our company has a good product, it’s a good service and we have good people. I’m lucky. I wake up every day loving what I do. My advice to you is to do something you’re passionate about. I loved my major, and I’ve loved my career path. It’s treated me very well.”

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Monmouth College is well-connect-ed to ENFOS, Inc., a commercial software company founded by 1986 graduate Roger Well (far right). Join-ing Well at a gathering last month were, from left, his wife, Dana, asso-ciate professor Terry Gabel, Nicole Kamzic ’14, Dillon Lehr ’15, associ-ate development officer Jeri Candor, Clayton Brundige ’15 and Madison Well ’15, the Wells’ daughter.

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FIRST OCLEP TRIP IS IN THE BOOKSMere hours after the college’s last final exams of the spring se-mester, biology professor James Godde was on a flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico, with eight students for a research trip.

The group returned to the U.S. one week later, but Godde soon de-parted again, leading eight more students to Cuba on a 10-day trip that concluded June 4. Other faculty members on that interdisci-plinary trip included modern foreign languages chair Tim Gaster, English chair Marlo Belschner and Dan Ott, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies. “We truly had an interdisciplinary focus to our group, covering ecotourism, religious study, gender issues and Cuban history,” said Godde.

The students and faculty were able to experience both rural and urban Cuba because of the generosity of Stan ’63 and Karen Bar-rett Chism ’65. “The interdisciplinary focus on the trip to Cuba was, in my opinion, the full realization of the generous donors to the program, the Chisms, who have a deep passion for undergrad-uate research and interdisciplinary teaching and learning,” said David Timmerman, dean of MC’s faculty.

The dean was referring to a recent gift of $50,000, presented in conjunction with Stan’s 50th class reunion, which funded a new academic initiative, the Off-Campus Learning Experience Program (OCLEP). “I’ve found that it is often these trips with faculty mem-bers, and the extended conversations that take place during the travel and at the sites, that are some of the most transformative experiences for students,” said Timmerman. “They become the catalyst points where all their prior learning fuses.”

“Cuba is a beautiful, complex and fascinating country, and this op-portunity allowed us a glimpse of its struggles and its potential,” said Belschner. “I am very pleased with the students’ work and focus, and I am confident that the experience had a huge impact on them—as it did on me.” Biology major Lauren Kellen ’15 felt the same way, saying “The whole trip was a fantastic adventure. It was quite the experience to venture through another country and learn their customs. The ecosystem and environment were beautiful.”

The group saw such sites as Orquidiario Soroa (an orchid garden), Havana cathedrals and a variety of caves, including Cuevas de Bell-mar and the prehistoric mural at the Cuevas del Indio near Vinales.

ANNUITY ESTABLISHES CLELAND SCHOLARSHIP Nancy Cleland of Knoxville, Tenn., has made an annuity gift of $90,000 to enhance the John W. Cleland Scholarship.

Nancy is the daughter of John W. Cleland ’43 and the granddaugh-ter of John Scott Cleland, who was dean of the college from 1927 to 1951. Another noteworthy member of the family is Eva Hanna Cle-land, an English professor at Monmouth for 37 years. She married John Scott Cleland a few years after his first wife, John W.’s mother, passed away. Cleland Hall is named in the family’s honor.

Though not an alumna of Monmouth, Nancy has fond memories of spending time on campus while visiting Eva Cleland at her home at 903 E. Broadway, now the site of the Kappa Kappa Gamma residence. “All my life, I grew up hearing stories about Monmouth College,” said Cleland. “There’s a community about

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Spending a week on an interdisciplinary trip to Cuba were (clockwise, from top left): James Godde, Dan Ott, Alexander Hernandez-Sotelo ’16, Austin Wallerstedt ’16, Shannon Sullivan ’14, Rachel Landrey ’16, Lauren Kellen ’15, Yesica Alvarez ’15, Stevie Croisant ’14, Mollie Murdock ’14, Marlo Belschner, a tour guide, and Tim Gaster.


Monmouth that I know my family really loved. There’s just some-thing wonderful about going to a small school. It provides a wonderful experience that is much different from what I call the big ‘factory’ universities.”

Donasia Rasheed ’14, who spoke on behalf of the student body at the dedication of the college’s new $40 million Center for Science and Business last year, is one of many students to receive the John W. Cleland Scholarship since its creation in the mid-1980s. A gen-eral scholarship, it supports a “worthy student” at Monmouth.

“I want everybody to be able to go to college,” said Cleland. “I know my parents believed that way, too, and they didn’t want to see young men and women burdened by student loans. I wish more people would think about setting up annuities as a way to help an organization or, in this case, a college, that they really care about.”

UNIQUE SCHOLARSHIP HONORS VALUE OF HIGHER EDNeither Ed Johnson, nor his late wife, Polly, graduated from high school. Yet the Galesburg couple, who were married 54 years, un-derstood the value of higher education, so much so that Johnson has created a scholarship that will benefit three area schools, in-cluding Monmouth College.

The Pauline and Edwin Johnson Endowed Scholarship will support students who transfer to Monmouth College from Carl Sandburg College. On average, about 15 to 20 students enroll at Monmouth each year after studying at the nearby community college.

Johnson has committed his entire estate to helping students fur-ther their education. Thirty percent of his estate will support the Monmouth College scholarship. “My wife and I discussed what we were going to do with our money,” said Johnson. “I asked, ‘What if we invested it in kids?’ She looked at me funny for a minute, and I said ‘Scholarships. We can structure it to where it will last a while.’ She agreed that would be all right with her.”

Language in the scholarship agreement includes helping students realize their full academic potential. “I didn’t graduate from high school,” said Johnson. “There’s a lot of hard work for people who don’t follow the pathway laid out in front of them.”

PIONEERING CHEMIST ESTABLISHES TEACHING AWARDH. Betty Weiss Oberstar ’43 made a name for herself at Bris-tol-Myers Squibb as director of research and development for the International Consumer Products Division of Clairol. The first wom-an from Monmouth’s distinguished chemistry program to receive professional distinction, she was inducted into the college’s Hall of Achievement, the highest honor it bestows upon its graduates.

That distinction ensures that Oberstar’s name lives on at Mon-mouth, and ensuring a legacy was also the impetus behind her $500,000 estate gift, which will fund the Garrett W. Thiessen Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, enabling the college to both reward and encourage excellent teaching and student mentorship.

“I wanted his name to be remembered,” said Oberstar of the leg-endary professor, who taught at Monmouth from 1930 until his death in 1967. “He was such a special person who I admired so much. He was one of my heroes. Buildings change names, equip-ment and offices change or become outdated, but an award like this can live on. His name will appear every year, and it will be a way to remember him.”

Thiessen was responsible, indirectly, for Oberstar’s attendance at Monmouth. Drawn by Monmouth’s “strong reputation” in chemistry—a reputation largely developed by professor William Haldeman (who taught from 1918 to 1954) and Thiessen, she com-pleted her final two years of study at MC. Haldeman then helped secure a spot for Oberstar in a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin, but she got married instead. That didn’t mean Oberstar put chemistry on the back Bunsen burner, though. She spent her entire 50-year professional career in chemistry-related positions, finally settling in at Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1975.

Her work in quality control helped her fulfill a childhood dream of seeing the world, and she took business trips to “numerous coun-tries in Europe and Southeast Asia, to Australia and New Zealand, to Sri Lanka–I traveled everywhere.” Still, the native of Ottawa, Ill., never forgot her Midwestern roots and the education she received at Monmouth.

“The college had a reputation all over the Midwest for graduat-ing many, many students who went to get their Ph.D.s,” Oberstar said. “What wonderful teaching they had. Professor Thiessen was a very brilliant man–a charming, lovely, kind man, but a very, very tough teacher. We had a 5- to 10-question quiz at the beginning of every class that covered what we had learned the class before. You learned the material, or you didn’t get through.”

Students will have a say in Thiessen Award winners, voting on the college’s top professor when they are seniors. The award will rotate through departments, with a three-year waiting period for a depart-ment after one of its professors wins the substantial cash award.

GOULD’S GIFT RECOGNIZES GUNDERSENDespite having decades of scholarly experience under his belt, history professor Lewis Gould believes that junior faculty deserve to be recognized for their research and scholarship. The nationally known historian and author is so firm in his conviction that he has established a cash award to encourage young Monmouth faculty members to pursue excellence. Named in honor of another distinguished historian, who graduated from Monmouth College, the Gundersen Junior Faculty Scholarship Award will be presented every other year to a Monmouth faculty member with fewer than three years of service who has engaged in exemplary scholarship, research or creative work. The $1,500 stipend may be used as the recipient sees fit.

“It’s important to recognize and encourage junior faculty because they are the future of the college,” said Gould, a visiting distin-

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guished professor who is also the Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor Emeritus in American History at the University of Texas at Austin. “Encouraging them to stay and to produce benefits ev-eryone.” The award honors Joan Rezner Gundersen ’68, a 1968 Monmouth graduate, who went on to earn graduate degrees from the College of William and Mary and the University of Notre Dame. Recognized as a pioneer in the women’s studies movement, she taught history at St. Olaf College from 1975 until 1990 and was one of the found-ing members in 1989 of California State University at San Marcos, for which she helped draft a mission statement and design the curriculum. Now the archivist and administrator for property at the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, she is the author of seven books and more than 22 articles on women’s history. Gould said the idea to honor Gundersen came from a conversation with Monmouth history department chair Stacy Cordery, who was familiar with the alumna’s work. “It seemed to us that recognizing an alumna who had gained recognition as an historian would be a way of saying to students and faculty that Monmouth graduates can go on to rich and productive careers in the world of schol-arship,” noted Gould, who added, “Connecting the award with a former student underlines the strong traditions of excellence that run through the Monmouth experience.

GODDE NAMEDFIRST McGRATH PROFESSORThrough a significant ma-jor gift, Michael McGrath ’71 and his wife, Kathryn, have funded the McGrath Professorship in Biolo-gy at Monmouth College. During the commence-ment ceremony in May, it was announced that the first holder of the endowed position is James Godde.

“It’s an honor,” said Godde, who was not present for the announce-ment, having departed earlier that day to lead a group of students on a biological research trip to Puerto Rico. Criteria for selection of the holder of the McGrath Professor-ship includes excellence in teaching, excellence in research and scholarship – particularly research that includes students – and excellence in service, with a focus on improvements in student learning and engagement. Godde certainly qualifies. The off-campus study in Puerto Rico was one of three such trips that the well-traveled professor scheduled for the summer. He also was part of the Off-Campus Learning Expe-

rience Program (OCLEP) in Cuba and, in late July, led four students to Borneo to research biodiversity. The first endowed professor in the biology department, Godde joined Monmouth’s faculty in 2001.That was 30 years after McGrath completed his biology degree at Monmouth, studying under such professors as Ben Cooksey, John Ketterer and David Allison. McGrath recalled spending the summer after his junior year con-ducting fieldwork at the college’s Mississippi River Field Station, under Ketterer’s direction. He said the experience was “very in-fluential” in leading him to earn a master’s degree in limnology/ecology from Drake University. The gift toward the professorship is not the first time that McGrath has contributed to his alma mater. He supports two students an-nually through the Michael J. McGrath ’71 Scholarship Fund, and was pleased to meet one of the recipients, May graduate Lindsey Zagar, on a recent visit to campus. “Monmouth College made me who I am,” he replied, when asked about his willingness to support the college at such a high level.

ADOLPHSON GIFT PROVIDES CROWNING JEWELAn estate gift from Monmouth graduates Dave ’67 and Priscil-la Trubeck Adolphson ’70 of North Barrington, Ill., provided the “crowning jewel” to their alma mater’s new Center for Science and Business. The couple’s six-figure gift has created the Adolphson Observatory, providing a very fitting cap for a facility that was de-signed in many ways to meet and anticipate changes in science and technology in the 21st century.

From left, David ’67 and Priscilla Trubeck Adolphson ’70 visit the Adolphson Observatory atop the Center for Science and Business, along with their grandniece, Elizabeth Trubeck, and Monmouth physics professors Tim Stiles and Chris Fasano. An observatory-class, 20-inch telescope will be installed later this year.

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“The beauty is in the technology,” said Dave, who is vice president and marketing manager at Objective-AIM in North Barrington. “You can rotate the telescope 360 degrees in either direction and tell the computer to track a certain planet. It is just fascinating.”

Prior to working at Objective Aim, Dave was an information sys-tems and technology executive at Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Aon Corporation and, most recently, KPMG Consulting. He is also a business-oriented information technology consultant.

The Adolphsons believe it was important for them to give back to Monmouth College. “The seed for giving back to the college was planted by (presidential secretary) Eileen Loya (’40) when I was a student,” said Dave. “She believed if you love Monmouth College, when you leave here you should stay involved and give back.”

That doesn’t always mean financially, he added, referring to his in-volvement in helping students and in serving on the alumni board. Pris agreed, saying that giving back is a way to remember the ways that the college changed both of their lives. “I loved Mon-mouth because it was a real growing up experience,” she said. “I felt from the minute we graduated that we gave back what we could. We never thought we could give a gift like this, but by mak-ing an estate gift, we were able to do something truly grand.”

$1.2 MILLION GIFT MADE TOWARD PI PHI HOUSEIn honor of their late mother, Mary MacDill Knapheide ’35, siblings Harold “Knap” Knapheide III of Quincy, Ill., and Vicki Knapheide Wood of The Woodlands, Texas, have made a gift of $1.2 million to Monmouth College. Their gift will cover the majority of the cost of a new chapter house for the Pi Beta Phi women’s fraternity.

The $2 million facility will be constructed on the northwest corner of Ninth St. and Euclid Ave. Groundbreaking is scheduled for next spring, and the 15-bed house will be available for Pi Phi members in the fall of 2015. It is being designed in the Greek Revival and Italianate styles to reflect the architecture of Monmouth’s historic Holt House, where two of the founders boarded and planned the organization.

Neither Knapheide sibling attended Monmouth, but their mother was in the Class of 1935. She grew up in Monmouth and followed her parents to the college, where her grandfather served as a phi-losophy professor.

With a strong connection to Pi Phi, Mary Knapheide serves as a link from the organization’s very beginnings to this recent an-nouncement. Founded in 1867 as I.C. Sorosis, it was the first women’s fraternity in the United States. Mary was initiated in 1932, and during her 2½ years as a Monmouth student, she met four of the 12 founding members—Margaret Campbell, Clara Brownlee Hutchinson, Fannie Whitenack Libbey and Inez Smith Soule.

Knap is president and CEO of Knapheide Manufacturing, the na-tion’s premier producer of steel service truck bodies.

Influenced by his mother’s strong family ties to Monmouth and the college, Knap joined MC’s board of trustees in 1975, serving through 1996. He later took on another term from 2002 to 2005. Knap graduated from the University of Kansas, while Vicki majored in elementary education at the University of Arkansas.

Architect’s rendering of new Pi Beta Phi house

Previously known by its geographic location as North Hall, the 131-bed coeducational facility is now called Pattee Hall, in recognition of a recent major gift to the college’s “Fulfilling the Promise” capital campaign by the Monmouth-based Pattee Foundation. It also honors previous gifts and more than a century of support by the Pattee family.

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As Monmouth College begins a new era, with Clarence Wyatt becoming just the 14th president in its 161-year history, now is a good time for some perspective. How did the college achieve its current position as President Wyatt sat at his desk in Wallace Hall for the first time on July 1? What will drive the college during Wyatt’s tenure? And what might Monmouth look like in the more distant future?

An accomplished historian, Wyatt might appreciate a recap dating all the way back to Monmouth’s first president, David Wallace, but that job has already been handled nicely in the form of books by history professors Garvin Davenport and William Urban and college historian Jeff Rankin. Instead, here is a brief summary of how Monmouth College has grown since 1994, as the successful 14-year tenure of the college’s 10th president, Bruce Haywood, was concluding.

The newest buildings at that time were Wells Theater, completed in 1990, and Glennie Gymnasium, built in 1983. Enrollment during Haywood’s final year was 671 students, a figure that was near Monmouth’s average for the previous two decades. Meanwhile, after receiving a much-needed boost in the mid-1980s, the college’s endowment had grown from $4 million to a still modest $24 million.

Change was about to come, fast and furious.

In terms of enrollment, Monmouth had not had 1,000 students on campus since the 1971-72 academic year. Starting with the 1993-94 year, enrollment grew by at least 50 students for five straight years, surpassing 1,000 students in 1997-98. It has remained above that level ever since, and grew by at least 60 students each year during another three-year stretch to reach 1,343 students in 2005-06. Four years later, the college established its all-time enrollment mark of 1,379.

That second period of strong growth each year was attributed, in part, to the completion of the $23 million Huff Athletic Center in 2003, which was just one ex-ample of the many physical changes on campus. Kickstarted by major renovations of McMichael Residence Hall and Poling Hall in the mid-1990s, new buildings and renovations became the norm on campus for the next decade and beyond. Other significant renovations included Hewes Library, Dahl Chapel and Auditorium, Stock-dale Center, the Mellinger Teaching and Learning Center, the Admission Building and Founders Village.

While the latter facility housed students, the college also constructed several new residence halls—Bowers Hall, Peterson Hall and Pattee Hall—as well as a new Greek life house, home to Alpha Xi Delta. In addition to the Huff Center, new athletic venues included Peacock Memorial Athletic Park (and the adjacent LeSuer Nature Preserve), the Monmouth College Tennis Stadium and April Zorn Memorial Stadium. As was the case with the Huff Center, the college has also seen enrollment growth after the completion last year of its most ambitious building project of the past 20 years, the innovative $42 million Center for Science and Business.

Also “rebuilt” during that time was the college’s curriculum, which underwent an extensive review more than a decade ago. That review led to Monmouth’s signa-ture general education spine of four courses, one taken during each of a student’s four years at Monmouth. The interdisciplinary Integrated Studies categories include Introduction to Liberal Arts, Global Perspectives, Reflections and Citizenship. The

TOP: President Mauri Ditzler and board chairman Bill Goldsborough ’65 cut the ribbon in 2013, open-ing the $42 million Center for Science and Business. ABOVE: President Richard Giese and primary donor Walter Huff ’56 (third and fourth from left) break ground in 2002 for what was then MC’s most ambi-tious project, the Huff Athletic Center.

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Of course, such ambitious physical projects could not be completed without significant gifts from donors who believed in the positive direction of the college. Monmouth’s “Toward a New Horizon” cap-ital campaign, which concluded in 2005, received $61.7 million in donor support, and the college’s $75 million “Fulfilling the Promise” campaign, officially launched in 2012, is nearing its goal, standing at $64.6 million through July 31. Today, the endowment has grown to $94 million.

The “Fulfilling the Promise” campaign is a fitting window through which to view the college today. In its case statement, President Mauri Ditzler wrote, “Nearly 20 years ago, the board of trustees laid out a path for propelling Monmouth to a position of prominence among private liberal arts colleges. Building an exceptional residen-tial campus was seen as a necessary first step toward achieving that goal.”

After essentially saying, “Mission accomplished,” Ditzler added, “The college is now prepared to move confidently forward as an innovator in higher education.”

The campaign comprises four major initiatives to help that forward movement, emphasizing active learning, civic engagement, complex problem solving and discerning a life’s purpose.

Students are drawn to Monmouth by the chance to participate in active learning. Through a series of recent initiatives, students can, for example, return to college three weeks early to conduct research as part of Summer Opportunities for Intellectual Activity (SOFIA); serve as an editor for the college’s own Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research; or spend 10 weeks on campus, conducting focused scientific research through the Kieft Summer Research Program, created by a $2.3 million estate gift from the late chemistry professor, Richard “Doc” Kieft.

Students also participate in traditional active learning opportunities, such as semester- and week-long off-campus study trips to all sorts of destinations. In 2014 alone, Monmouth students have traveled abroad to Borneo, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Granada, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, Puerto Rico and Spain. Those experiences play a major role in opening students’ eyes to the world in which they live.

Tied closely to active learning is complex problem solving. Mon-mouth’s students are certainly being active as they deal with the complex issues involved with the growth and distribution of produce from the Educational Garden and, more recently, the Educational Re-search Farm.

“Student work in the Educational Garden exemplifies the best virtues of the liberal arts approach to education,” said dean of the faculty David Timmerman. “They are focused on a good much bigger than themselves, in this case, in environmentally sustainable agricultural practices. In addition, students and professors work together, both fully engaged in complex problem solving and the bringing together

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of multiple disciplines for the task. It is fully inte-grated learning.”

A similar merging of science and business issues occurs with the Scots Roast coffee beans that are roasted in the Center for Science and Business and marketed locally.

Civic engagement opportunities are plentiful for Monmouth students, from community service projects that develop from the Citizenship branch of the Integrated Studies curriculum, to public speaking programs such as ScotSpeak and Moot Court, to the types of interactions with the cam-pus and local community that come through the college’s revitalized Greek life program, which to-day boasts four men’s fraternities, three women’s fraternities and one for both men and women. The Greek life initiative is still going strong, with plans to complete a new $2 million house for Pi Beta Phi in 2015.

What will Monmouth students do with their in-creased opportunities to learn in and out of the classroom? That “What will I do after I graduate?” question has weighed heavily on the mind of many a college student, but Monmouth is mak-ing a very intentional effort to help its students discern their purpose. Innovative programs such as the Wackerle Career and Leadership Center and the new Lux Center and the religious life pro-gramming it provides are prime examples.

From simply helping a student with a résumé to providing opportunities for internships, network-ing and job interviews, the Wackerle Center is a leading reason behind the college’s 99 percent placement rate for its graduating classes of 2012 and 2013. In all, the campus community makes it a point to get to know the students and to help guide them on the best paths to positive out-comes beyond Monmouth.

As the college looks ahead, it is “well positioned to leverage the strengths of our beautiful and well-designed physical plant, and an exceptional, dedicated and loyal faculty and staff,” said Steve Bloomer, vice president for development and col-lege relations.

Bloomer noted the record donations last year to the Monmouth Fund of nearly $2 million and added, “We are positioned to not only repeat that achievement, but also make major strides in funding a number of new or recently initiated ac-ademic programs, scholarships and new faculty positions. Our fundraising initiatives are nested in

the concept of our campus master plan and our strategic plan, and our team is poised for greater success in 2014-15 and beyond. Indeed, planning will be a hallmark of the college going forward. As President Wyatt told the board of trustees at its retreat in July, “We will create a culture of planning at Monmouth, and I pro-pose that we begin this process immediately. We will take the good work that has been done and look at it afresh, taking advantage of the points of congruity and the points of creative tension, achieving greater focus of message, effort and resources. This process will form the basis of a broader planning effort that will involve the entire community—trustees, faculty and staff, students, alumni, parents and friends. Together we will ar-ticulate a powerful vision of the guided growth of young women and men, and of how it happens especially well at Monmouth. Together we will de-velop the broad strategic directions by which we will pursue that vision. Together we will develop the specific actions, budgets, timelines and re-sponsible parties that will take us to this future. And this operational plan will inform all of our ac-tions as an institution.”

Such a process is necessary to respond to the challenges confronting higher education, es-pecially institutions such as Monmouth. As President Wyatt said, “A great sorting-out is taking place among residential liberal arts col-leges. Some, lacking the resources and/or will to respond positively, will hunker down and hope to survive; in doing so, they set themselves on a path to stagnation, declining quality and, in some cases, extinction. Other colleges are respond-ing by trying to be all things to all people and adopting short-term fixes that dilute or abandon a commitment to the liberal arts. A much small-er group, with the largest endowments and the deepest applicant pools, feel no sense of urgency, no need to innovate.

“Monmouth College is among a small handful of institutions distinctively positioned to de-fine another path—to create a more intentional, purposeful and coordinated program of human development, based on the power of the liberal arts—and to ensure that this experience is re-sponsive and available to a changing American and global society. This path represents the next stage in the evolution of the residential liberal arts experience. In this time of dramatic change for higher education, Monmouth has not only the opportunity, not just the necessity, but the duty to lead.”


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BOOKS

THE REPUBLICANS: A HISTORYOF THE GRAND OLD PARTYBy Lewis L. Gould Visiting Distinguished Professor of HistorySoft Cover, 400 Pages, $24.95Oxford University Press

BAYONETS AND SCIMITARS: ARMS, ARMIES, AND MERCENARIES 1700-1789By William Urban, Lee L. Morgan Professor of History and International StudiesHardback, 256 pages, $35.96Frontline Books

GRAND CROSSING: COMING OF AGE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSIONBy Jack McGuire ’50Paperback, 208 pages, $14.63Dog Ear Publishing

From Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the disputed election of George W. Bush and beyond, the Republican Party has been at the dramatic center of American politics for more than a century and a half. LEWIS L. GOULD’s 2003 history of the Re-publican Party was a fast-paced account of Republican fortunes. The Republicans won praise for its even-handed, incisive analysis of Republi-can history, drawing on Gould’s deep knowledge of the evolution of national political history and acute feel for the interplay of personalities and ideology. In this revised and updated edition, Gould extends this history, adding a new chapter on the George W. Bush presidency, the election of 2008, and the response of the Grand Old Party to Barack Obama. His narrative covers such con-temporary figures as Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and John McCain, as well as forgotten Republican leaders including James G. Blaine, Mark Hanna, Wendell Willkie and Robert A. Taft. Contending that the historic Republican skep-ticism about the legitimacy of the Democratic Party has shaped American politics since the Civil War, Gould argues that the persistent flaw in the relations between the two parties has led the nation to the current crisis of stalemate and partisan bitterness. No other account of Repub-lican history is as up-to-date, crammed with fascinating information, and ready to serve as an informed guide to today’s partisan warfare. Based on Gould’s research in the papers of leading Republicans and his wide reading in the party’s history, The Republicans is a book that will outlast the noisy tumult of today’s partisan debates and endure as a definitive treatment of how the party has shaped the way Americans live together in a democracy.

The eighteenth century marked a watershed in European history. This was a period of sig-nificant economic, political and technological upheaval, which led to the American and French revolutions, and was to ultimately pave the way for Europe’s domination of much of the world during the nineteenth century. The wars and political maneuvering of Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great transformed Prussia and Russia into major players in Euro-pean politics. France, the richest nation in the West; survived losing successive wars, then bankrupted itself assisting the Americans in an unnecessary war of revenge. Britain became the model of economic and financial efficiency and made itself supreme in North America, the Ca-ribbean, and in India, only to face such financial troubles that its leaders antagonized its colonial subjects in America. This excellent new book by esteemed military historian WILLIAM URBAN traces the evolution of war making throughout this turbulent period—the politics, the weaponry, the organization of armies, and the transformation of mercenaries into professionals. This highly readable account concentrates not just on high politics and military strategy but also on the everyday experiences of those involved giving us a compelling glimpse of the human face of warfare during this important period.

JACK MCGUIRE ’50 recalls his rite of passage during one of the darkest periods in U.S. history. McGuire’s chromatic recounting of everyday life along the streets and back alleys of his childhood Grand Crossing neighborhood, recaptures the essence of inner-city Depression-era Chicago. A gentle, malleable soul—the proverbial middle child of five—Jack struggles to find his way in the bustling, McGuire household dominated by a hard-drinking, volatile Irish-American cop-dad. McGuire’s Roman Catholic upbringing, uncom-promising as the cross of Christ, is pitted against emerging doubts about his faith, a growing aver-sion to his old man’s dictum that he become a priest and his own dreams of a more glamorous future as a big band leader. Tag along with young McGuire and his cohorts through the mischievous misadventures that color their lives amid the bittersweet irony of these pivotal years. Meet the crazy quilt of char-acters in Chicago’s Grand Crossing neighborhood – many first generation European immigrants – who leave an indelible imprint on 18-year-old Pvt. McGuire, as he recalls those bygone days from an Army outpost in Europe during WWII. And in a riveting you-are-there recounting of headlined exploits lauding his dad’s police ca-reer, discover why the father finally emerges a hero in his son’s eyes. After Army service in Europe during World War II, McGuire attended Monmouth College on the GI Bill and later graduated from Northwestern Uni-versity. He lives with his wife, Jill, in Wheaton, Ill.

GOULD URBAN MCGUIRE


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GOLDEN SCOTS CELEBRATION

THE CLASS OF 1964 WAS BACK IN FORCE FOR ITS GOLDEN REUNION. ROW 1 (FROM LEFT): Nel Dietrich Allison, Gretchen Wright Moore, Valerie Hamilton Bowlby, Barbara Stewart Royle, Gail Allen Harriss, Lucy Work Burroughs, Mary Bailey Marshall, Jean Cowan Kistler, Marilyn Kessinger Hubbard and Stanley McKelvie. ROW 2: Richard Whiteman, Martha Tomicek Clark, Jane Niblock Hutchinson, William Ortman, Thomas Rezner, Joanne Greer Stipp, Judith Blaich Stipp, G. Jane Wilson Dawson, Joan Nickel Sanders, Julie Stankrauff Stoffels and Sandra Epperson Wolf. ROW 3: James Millar, Fred Rumney, Dennis Walker, Donald Denney, Peter Suffredini Jr., Joan Strand Kotz, David Wark, Diana Carringer Wallace, Richard Halloran, Johanna Howell Halloran and Michael Sproston. ROW 4: James Bagwell, Robert Remmert, David Danner, John Courson, Stanley Wherry, Bernard Sutinis, James Gee Jr, Reid Beveridge, James Hutchinson and Gerald Allison. Attending the reunion but not able to be present for the picture: John Alexander, Barbara Bolon Bye, Joyce Monticue Clark, Stephen Ellis and Tom Ulmet.

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Reid Beveridge ’64 presents an insightful talk on changes in the military over the past half century.

For four magical days in June, time reversed itself and it was suddenly 1964 again on the Mon-mouth College campus. For members of the 50-year class and other alumni from golden days past, the intervening years and the aggravations of aging seemed to melt away, as friendships were renewed, old haunts were revisited and the pride of being a Scot was celebrated again and again.

A GOLDEN TIME WAS HAD BY ALL

GOLDEN SCOTS CELEBRATON

TOP: Johanna Howell Halloran ’64 and Richard Hal-loran ’64 enjoy dessert on the front porch of Quinby House. ABOVE: President Mauri Ditzler delivered his “Last Lecture” to an appreciative audience of Golden Scots, who rewarded him with a standing ovation. BELOW: A panel of inveterate world travelers from the Class of ’64 (Tom Ulmet, Marilyn Kessing-er Hubbard, Barbara Bolon Bye and Julie Stankrauff Stoffels) enjoys recalling its diverse career adventures.

TOP: Serenaded by a piper, alumni enter the former Carnegie Library, one of the stops for the opening night’s progressive dinner. RIGHT: Lunch in the leg-endary Italian Village pizza brings back memories of college days. BELOW: Jane Niblock Hutchinson ’64 greets emeritus art professor Harlow Blum at an exhibition of his recent work in the college’s new downtown Fusion Theatre. BOTTOM RIGHT: Singing hymns in Dahl Chapel, alumni attending the Sun-day morning worship service relive a familiar memory from their college years.


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To mark the occasion, a student gave back to Ditzler one of the college’s matricu-lation coins that he had received during the 2010 ceremony. “He gave it to me as a token of good luck,” Ditzler told the crowd, which had turned out to see approxi-mately 250 Monmouth students receive their diplomas.

Among those students was Will Terrill, Student Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, who gave one of the two commencement addresses. Paul Weisenfeld, vice president of Global Programs at RTI International, gave the other.

Other speakers included Christine Malebranche of Chicago’s Jones College Prep, who received Monmouth’s annual Pre-College Teacher of the Year award; senior Beverly Krueger, who nominated Malebranche; senior Cyrus Turner, who provided the welcoming remarks; and senior Bradley Whitcomb, who gave a brief farewell on behalf of his classmates, referencing the famous Calvin Coolidge quote, “Noth-ing in this world can take the place of persistence.”

Four other seniors congratulated Monmouth faculty members on their recent pro-motions, including Stevie Croisant, who said of English professor Marlo Belschner: “I cannot thank her enough for the time and effort she’s put into helping me be-come a better writer, helping me to study off campus and giving me pointers during my job search.”

Belschner was promoted to full professor, as was Kevin Baldwin (biology). Promoted to associate professor were Brad Sturgeon (chemistry) and Fred Witzig (history).

In his address, Weisenfeld spoke of the fast-changing world of communication and technology and told the graduates that “people can compete in knowledge tech-nology if they have the knowledge to compete.” He also praised MC for its decision to focus on food security issues through its new Triads integrated learning model, saying “It’s exactly the right approach to trying to solve these global challenges.”

On a warm summer day in 2010, Monmouth College president Mauri Ditzler welcomed an incoming class of freshmen at the annual matriculation ceremony on Wallace Hall Plaza. As that class—now the graduating Class of 2014—moved on from the college on a perfect May afternoon, Ditzler joined them in moving on, presiding over his ninth and final commencement exercises at Monmouth.

BY BARRY MCNAMARA

DITZLER PRESIDES OVER HIS FINAL MONMOUTH COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT


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Terrill, who was actively involved in the college’s Educational Garden and was instrumental in the development of a research farm east of campus, told his classmates that for most of their lives, they had been motivated by fear. In their days as elementary and high school students, they were constantly made to fear what would happen if they didn’t learn cursive, or if they didn’t get good grades or receive a high ACT score.

After recounting a personally moving story of a moment in nature that occurred while he was working at Barefoot Gardens in nearby Macomb, he urged his class-mates to instead rely on intrinsic motivation. “It’s never too late to shirk those nagging voices of fear. … Never forget to look up and watch the wind blowing through the trees.”

Terrill and Krueger were two of the nine students who graduated summa cum laude. The others were Bryce Ball, Aaron Bromeland, Christina Durante, Mitchell Heuermann, Jared Johnson, Zephan Knichel and Jacob Owens.

Owens did not speak at the ceremony, but he was certainly pleased with his Monmouth education.

“When it’s all said and done, I got just about the best possible education here,” Owens wrote on a social media post. “It set me up for so many different things in the future. I learned how to think and I learned how to learn. And I learned how to use my unique skills and maximize my potential in whatever I do.”

Malebranche spoke to the “commencement” or “beginning” spirit of the day, realizing the graduates were asking “Where do I go from here?” She told them, “Wherever you go, do it with love and do it with passion… It’s not about giving back; it’s about giving forward.”

Her remarks came a day after similar sentiments were shared by the Rev. Dr. John Buchanan, pastor emeritus of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church, who was the featured speaker at baccalaureate. Buchanan, who also serves as editor/publisher of The Christian Century magazine, gave the graduates gathered in Dahl Chapel some advice for their “one wild and precious life.”

He told them “happiness is big business,” with all types of books and self-help seminars offered on “the one thing that everybody wants.”

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IT’S NOT ABOUT GIVING BACK; IT’S

ABOUT GIVING FORWARD.

—MALEBRANCHE

Opposite Page: President Ditzler receives a farewell hug.Above: The Rev. Dr. Teri Ott leads the baccalaureate service.Left: The graduation ceremony for the class of 2014 took place on a beautiful sunny day.

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“How will you live fully? How do you plan to be hap-py?” he asked. “Find something to love, find someone to love. … Descartes said ‘I think, therefore I am.’ But Descartes was wrong. I love, therefore I am.’”

The Rev. Dr. Teri Ott, whose parents were active leaders in Buchanan’s church, called the speaker “an inspiration” in her introduction. She also had words for President Ditzler.

“In a way, you are graduating, too,” she said. “You have served us faithfully and well. Thank you.”

Earlier during commencement weekend, Monmouth College officially dedicated one of its existing residence halls as Pattee Hall, honoring a gift received from the Pattee Foundation in Monmouth.

“The Pattee family’s roots in this college are strong and firm,” said Bill Goldsborough ’65, chairman of MC’s board of trustees, “and we are proud that the Pattee name will be associated with this college for years to come.”

Other commencement weekend highlights included a concert by the Chorale and the Wind Ensemble, and the senior class gift of more than $8,000 was announced at the Senior Gala. This year’s gift went toward a rock garden outside the north entrance to the Huff Athletic Center.

COMMENCEMENT

CLOCKWISE, FROM UPPER LEFT: Azmin Pedraza proudly displays her diploma; Paul Weisenfeld, vice president of Global Programs at RTI International, delivers his commencement address; the new rock garden outside the Huff Athletic Center was the gift of the Class of 2014; Pre-College Teacher of the Year Christine Malebranche, with her nominator, Beverly Krueger; the Rev. Dr. John Buchanan at the traditional baccalaureate service; running the gauntlet of the faculty receiving line, Dan Barger prepares for a big hug from professor Mark Willhardt; Raven Robinson, one of the Fighting Scots most decorated athletes, enjoys her final day as a Monmouth student.


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The majority of new students that Monmouth welcomes to campus each fall are not exactly sure what they want to do when they graduate.

And even if they’re clear on the path, it’s not uncommon for them to realize that their college career is nearing its end, but they don’t yet have a full-time job lined up.Andrew Baudino ’14 and Chris Falkenrath ’14 were in similar situ-ations until they discovered the services of the college’s Wackerle Career & Leadership Center, which aids students in mastering the skills required to gain the cutting edge and continue their success beyond Monmouth.

Through the Wackerle Center’s assistance, both students secured jobs they began after graduating, and the positions are different from what they envisioned when they began college. Falkenrath, an international business and economics major, accepted a position as an assistant national bank examiner with the Office of the Comp-troller of the Currency (OCC), working in Schaumburg, Ill. Baudino is an agent aspirant for State Farm in Aledo, Ill.

Last fall, Falkenrath had interviews with The Boston Consulting Group, KPMG and the OCC. “The first two were case interviews, and the OCC had me take a four-hour exam, conduct a phone screening, and pass a behavioral interview after that,” said Falkenrath. “I only received one offer, but it was an offer that I was thrilled to receive, seeing how my competition was from Ivy League schools or other well-established business schools such as Northwestern.”

To prepare for those interviews, Falkenrath leaned heavily on the Wackerle Center for support.

“After contacting (program coordinator) Stephanie Kinkaid about my upcoming case interviews, she invited me to meet with her to go over my options,” said Falkenrath. “I was amazed by how much time and effort she had clearly put toward helping me. She was always ready with new problems and questions for me to solve.”

Kinkaid set up mock interviews with others around the office, re-viewed Falkenrath’s résumé/cover letter and passed along hints and tips. “After a few months of meeting regularly for an hour or more each week, I began entering interviews with a much higher level of confidence,” reported Falkenrath.

In addition to the help that the Wackerle Center provided, Falken-rath spent four to 10 hours per week studying on his own for the interviews by researching the companies, running through practice cases and fine tuning and practicing his behavioral answers.

Baudino credits the Wackerle Center for notifying him that a State Farm agent was going to be on campus taking résumés.

“What they did was bring an actual employer to campus for stu-dents to meet with and talk to face to face,” he said. “I believe that it was that interaction that set me apart from the rest of the appli-cants. If it was not for the on-campus meeting, I could have been just another name on their list that did not get chosen.”

Beyond that, Baudino said the Wackerle Center helped him create a professional résumé, practice mock interviews and prepare for in-terview questions while keeping him “focused and positive” about his job search.

“If you are a student and schedule a meeting with Stephanie Kinkaid or another member of the Wackerle Center staff, they will work with you and do their best to help you find the career you are looking for after graduation,” he said.

Baudino, who double-majored in accounting and business, is enter-ing a field that typically pays around $50,000 annually. Working at such an established company as State Farm is also excellent train-ing for a professional who later wants to have his own agency in the independent insurance agent market.

“It feels great having employment secured while many of my class-mates are still searching,” he said during the spring semester. “Now I can enjoy my last semester of college without the stress and pres-sure that comes with looking for a career after graduation.”

BY BARRY MCNAMARA

BAUDINO, FALKENRATH USED MC’S CAREER CENTER TO SECURE JOBS

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OR, MORE ACCURATELY, FOUR ... THE GPA ACHIEVED BY FIVE OF THE SCOTS CHAMPION GOLFERS


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Coach Dave Ragone’s team captured the Midwest Conference ti-tle and advance to the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championships. They posted a respectable 311.1 scoring average, and an even more impressive 3.22 grade point average for the spring semester. One of the five golfers with a perfect 4.0 GPA, business and market-ing major Drake Decker ’16, received the Elite 89 Award, presented to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at the NCAA meet. Decker leads all Scots with a 4.0 cumulative GPA and was second in scoring average at 78.14. Decker’s five-over-par total of 149 fell five strokes short of making the individual cut at the NCAA meet, which was played at the Gran-dover Resort & Conference Center in Greensboro, N.C. The Fighting Scots’ second-round team score of 314 on the resort’s East Course gave them a two-day total of 630, which did not make the cut of the top 15 scores in the 41-team field. While Decker has more college golf ahead of him, his four team-mates who made the trip to Greensboro played their final round for the Fighting Scots. Seniors Jared Johnson (78), Ryan Suttles (78) and David Blake (80) contributed to the team score, while class-mate Mike Olszewski added an 84. Next to Decker, Johnson was the low man with a two-day total of 157. Blake shot 158.

“They had a great four years,” Ragone said of the senior class. “All of their hard work finally paid off. Winning conference and making the trip to nationals was a very special way for them to go out. They are not only good athletes, but they’re a special group of students, too.”

At the MWC meet, the Scots trailed by two strokes entering the final round of the 54-hole event, which was played at Aldeen Golf Course in Rockford, Ill. But the Scots jumped past second-round leader St. Norbert and first-round leader Carroll to claim the sixth MWC title under Ragone. Blake placed third at the tournament with steady rounds of 79-78-78-235. A 78-80-78 for Decker tied him for fourth while Suttles was eighth with an 84-77-77-238. All three golfers earned All-MWC honors.

As for the honors in the classroom, Ragone is not surprised by his team’s success. “We always want good students and feel that good golf and good academics go hand-in-hand,” he said. “The nature of the sport takes the same characteristics to be successful as it does in the classroom. They have to have concentration, dedication,

self-reliance and a strong work ethic. I’ve found our student-athletes tend to be highly competitive from within. They hold themselves to high standards in both the classroom and on the links. … The vet-erans are showing the younger guys the importance of academics. They’re doing a good job of upholding and raising the standard for future teams.”

Exercise science major Dan Barger ’14 and communication studies major David Beuttell ’15 had perfect 4.0 GPAs, and physics majors Johnson and Gage DeCook rounded out the group.

Johnson and DeCook are part of another story related to the golf team’s academic success, continuing a recent tradition started by physics majors Rodney Clayton ’11 and Brandon Kemerling ’13. Johnson plans to pursue a Ph.D. at Purdue University. He completed a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at Notre Dame last summer, studying black holes, relativistic jets and accre-tion discs while modeling a theory by Stanford University emeritus professor Robert Wagoner. DeCook will complete a 3:2 program at Iowa State University, earning a physics degree at Monmouth at the end of his third year this May before studying for an engineering degree during the final two years.

The students, who both finished their time at Monmouth with cumulative GPAs of 3.9, will follow a road paved by Clayton (Mis-souri University of Science & Technology) and Kemerling (Ohio State University). While in graduate school, Clayton was selected for a prestigious 10-week internship at NASA’s Langley Research Center, calling it “a one-of-a-kind experience.” At MUS&T, he re-ceived a graduate research assistantship to work on a laser additive manufacturing (LAM) project funded by NASA. “LAM is a relatively new manufacturing technology,” he explained. “It uses a laser and powder metal to ‘print’ almost any 3-D part imaginable. Besides my assistantship, I took numerous courses in metallurgy.”

Kemerling’s work also focuses on manufacturing—specifically, laser welding processes and performing computer simulations on those welds, using computational fluid dynamics. “My dream job would be to work in research and development for Acushnet in California,” he

An amazing season on the links by the Monmouth College men’s golf team this spring was equaled by their performance in the classroom. Five Fighting Scots golfers posted perfect spring GPAs as exactly half the 22-member team earned academic honors.

THEY ARE NOT ONLY GOOD ATHLETES, BUT THEY’RE A SPECIAL GROUP

OF STUDENTS, TOO.

BY BARRY MCNAMARA

OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM LEFT: David Blake, Mike Olzsewski, Jared Johnson, Ryan Suttles, Luke Kreiter and Drake Decker.

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said. “They are one of the world leaders in golf club manufacturing. If I could integrate my academic work with my passion for golf, it would be the perfect scenario for me.”

“Rodney and Brandon set the bar pretty darn high,” said DeCook, who chose Monmouth, due in part to the influence of yet another MC golfer, Ryan Tapscott ’11, a fellow graduate of Riverdale High School. “They were strong players and outstanding students in a difficult major.”

One edge that Johnson and DeCook have on their predecessors is the use of the college’s new Center for Science and Business, which opened last fall. “If a scientific project costs too much, it’s not going anywhere,” said Johnson. “It’s been helpful to have that collaboration with the business department and to see things from that perspective.”

Not only does Johnson exemplify academic and athletic excel-lence, he also aspires to answer a call by former president Mauri Ditzler to seek a career in the Midwest and use the region’s re-sources to help solve global issues related to food and fuel. “I want to work with energy, things like renewable fuel cells,” he said. His Ph.D. will be in either materials science engineering or chemical and biomolecular engineering.

DeCook plans to pursue civil engineering, a field he got a taste of during an internship last summer for John Deere & Co. at its Water-loo, Iowa, facility. “I went around the facilities and analyzed static elements like loading docks, looking for structural flaws,” he said. Integrating golf and physics was an important part of his MC ex-perience, Kemerling said. “Having that balance in my life definitely helped me get through tougher times as far as coursework went. The class sizes at Monmouth are such a huge advantage. Sitting in some of the classes at OSU with 60 or more students, you simply cannot interrupt class with a question you may have. In some of my physics classes at Monmouth, we had three students,” making it much easier to work closely with professors.

Kemerling and Johnson worked together on one of the first proj-ects involving the college’s 15,000 frames per second high-speed camera, which was purchased in 2010. As a senior, Kemerling used the high-speed imagery and tracking software on a project involv-ing water bottle rockets.

Clayton also recalled a memorable project from his undergradu-ate days. “Henry Schmidt and I developed a hybrid remote control vehicle,” he said. “We also had the opportunity to present our research at a conference in Vancouver. Dr. (Chris) Fasano encour-aged us to apply, and we were lucky enough to be one of the few to receive grants to attend the conference.” As a senior, Clayton participated in the college’s summer research program, working on the remote control vehicle while also mento-ring two incoming freshmen.

Clayton had a dream season in 2010, leading the Scots to their

second straight NCAA tourney while earning medalist honors at the MWC meet. He praised Fasano for building a strong, innovative department and said it was a major reason he chose Monmouth.

“I knew I wanted to do engineering and science, but I also wanted to play golf for all four years,” said Clayton, echoing a sentiment shared by the other three student-athletes. “After talking with Dr. Fasano, he helped me see that Monmouth would be a great place to receive a quality education that would lead to a career in engi-neering but still allow me to pursue collegiate athletics.” “I’m sure that the diligence that they show in the classroom and lab feeds and is fed by their diligence on the course and with the team,” said Fasano. “I know that they will be some of our best al-ums.”

Today, Clayton is the staff metallurgist at Boardwalk Pipeline Partners in Houston, Texas. “It’s a great industry to be in, and I’m learning more and more on a daily basis,” said Clayton. “Hopefully, these experiences will allow me to move up in the company as a metallurgist —just as long as there’s still time to get a round of golf in.”

Drake Decker led the Scots at the NCAA Championships, where he also re-ceived the prestigious Elite 89 Award for having the top GPA of the more than 200 golfers competing at the event.

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On the final day of competition at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, James Wilson ’15 earned All-Amer-ican status for the fifth time, while Briana Gardner ’16 claimed her first. Wilson sprinted to an eighth-place finish in 48.20 in the 400-meter dash, while Gardner’s time of 24.96 in the 200-meter dash placed sixth. She had run a lifetime-best 24.22 in the prelims to become the second-fastest woman in the 200 in Monmouth history, trailing only 2001 grad Constance Jackson by .19 of a second. Wilson nearly qualified for the men’s 200 final, but his ca-reer-best of 21.53 was just off the last qualifying time.

Earlier in the meet, Raven Robinson ’14 claimed her fifth All-Amer-ican award and her first in the outdoor shot put, while Emily Tysma ’14 earned her second outdoor All-American title and third over-all. Robinson—whose third All-American honor in the indoor shot came at the 2014 indoor meet—broke her outdoor drought with an eighth-place throw of 46–9½. She also competed in the hammer throw and discus, placing 15th and 18th. Tysma cleared 5–7 on her second attempt to tie for sixth place in the high jump.

Also advancing to outdoor nationals were Erin Maul ’15 (shot put), Morgan Ryan ’14 (pole vault), DeAndre Smith ’14 (discus) and Rob Wallace ’17 (high jump). Wilson was also part of two relays that qualified—joining Adam Parr ’16, Eric Brown ’14 and Kiante Green

’14 in the 4x100 and Parr, Ethan Reschke ’17 and Raimius Foulkes ’15 in the 4x400.

In addition to Robinson, who was the Scots’ lone indoor All-Ameri-can this season, other indoor national qualifiers were Wilson (long jump), Tysma (high jump), Ryan (pole vault), Bailey Jackson ’14 (tri-ple jump) and the 4x400 squad of Wilson, Green, Foulkes and Parr.

At the Midwest Conference level, Monmouth once again swept all four titles, achieving that feat for the 10th consecutive year. Green, Jackson and Robinson won two indoor conference titles, while Smith, Tysma and Wilson each won one. Robinson, Ryan and Wilson claimed two outdoor MWC titles apiece, while Green, Smith, Tysma, Scott Duncan ’14, Alyssa Edwards ’14 and Joe Ward ’16 won one each.

Impressively, Wilson was named the Most Outstanding Performer for both field and track events at the indoor meet, and he added an MOP honor outdoors. Robinson and Smith received the field honor at both events, and Green and Jackson each took home one MOP honor.

Individual school records set during the season included Smith in the discus (169–10), Green in the 55-meter dash (6.47) and Tysma in the high jump (5–8).

FROM LEFT: All-Americans Raven Robinson, Briana Gardner and Emily Tysma.

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WINTER SPORTSWOMEN’S BASKETBALL: In the history of Fighting Scots women’s basketball, the following résumé describes only one player:

• Played in four consecutive Midwest Conference championship games.• Received two All-MWC honors.• Scored more than 1,000 points.

The player in question, Marla Willard ’14, capped an outstanding career with her 13th double-double of the season, but it wasn’t quite enough to lead Monmouth past St. Norbert in the MWC title game. The Scots fell 69-60 to the Green Knights.

Willard earned her second straight all-league honor by averaging 16.1 points and 9.9 rebounds. She was second on the team with 91 assists and 55 steals, and her 33 blocked shots improved her career record to 137. In a thrilling 64-62 win over St. Norbert during the regular season, Willard made her 1,000th point memorable, net-ting the game-winning basket at the buzzer. She finished her career as the Scots’ fifth all-time scorer.

Other seniors who were a major part of the Scots’ 19-6 season included Kaley Cor-ban (12.4 ppg), Jacquice Cooper (10.8 ppg) and Kim Coleman (team-high 98 assists). Coach Melissa Bittner used the same starting lineup for all 25 games, rounded out by Paige Nord ’15 (9.1 ppg).

MEN’S BASKETBALL: While the women’s team started four seniors, coach Todd Skrivseth’s second Scots squad did not have a senior on the roster, and only one junior. A talented sophomore class provided much of the firepower during a 6-17 season that saw Monmouth place 10th in the MWC. The top five scorers were all sophs, led by Cole Jackson (15.5 ppg) and Nick Marema (11.6 ppg). Jon Calhoun led the Scots in assists (51) and steals (23), while Andrew Mathison averaged 9.7 points and a team-high 7.0 boards. Ben Friday swatted a team-high 26 shots to go with 5.7 rebounds per game.

MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING: New coach Tom Burek led Monmouth’s men to a third-place finish at his first MWC Championships. Top three individual swimmers for the men at the league meet included Raheem Brown ’16, who was second in the 100 breaststroke (59.18), and Gabe Baginski ’14, who placed third in the 100 backstroke (53.34). The duo combined to break three individual school records during the season.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING: The last word of that sub-headline is significant, as Monmouth qualified its first diver for NCAA regional competition. Allie Vallance ’17 earned the honors, and the runner-up points she scored in the diving well at the MWC Championships were part of the Scots’ fifth-place finish. The Scots divers are coached by Al McGuire. The leading swimmer at the meet was Cassidy O’Con-nell ’16, who was third in the 400 IM with a school-record time of 4:43.60. Clarissa Henby ’15, Erin Willhite ’15 and Claire Woodrow ’17 also set individual swim records during the season.

SPRING SPORTSMEN’S TENNIS: In the last sports section of Monmouth College Magazine, it was sug-gested that it would be fitting if “The Davids”—David Johnson ’14 and David Stewart ’14—concluded their historic careers tied for the all-time lead in victories. That was nearly the case, with Johnson’s 155 total wins edging Stewart by one as the duo rewrote the tennis record books. The Davids partnered to capture the No. 1 doubles title at the MWC Championships, where Johnson won at No. 2 singles and Stewart at No. 3. It was the second consecutive year they swept those three titles. In their

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WINTER SPORTS: Willard leads basketballTeam to another MWC title game, Vallance dives into record books

SPRING SPORTS: The Davids’ cap brilliant careers, Scots slug way to more softball marks

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careers, The Davids combined for eight MWC singles and doubles titles. They ended the season with a 24-5 mark, and their number of quality wins netted them the No. 7 spot in the ITA’s final Central Region ranking of the season, a high water mark for Monmouth tennis. They won their final 10 matches to finish with a career re-cord of 79-23.

The brilliance displayed by The Davids highlighted another strong season for the team, as the Fighting Scots placed second in the MWC, falling 5-2 to Grinnell in the championship match. Coach Chad Braun will have to rework the top portion of his lineup, as Chris Franco ’14 was the No. 1 singles player.

SOFTBALL: Softballs left the park at a record rate for the Scots this season, and Char-lotte Park ’16 was part of the reason. Park smashed a re-cord four home runs in a 13-7 win over Knox, helping her finish with a new single-sea-son mark of nine. Monmouth followed up the standard of 25 homers set a year ago with 31 roundtrippers during its 21-18 season.

Other sluggers included third baseman Caitlin Lingle ’14 (.421, 6 HR, 36 RBI), right field-er Kaitlin Winkler ’14 (.389, 5 HR, 23 RBI) and first baseman

Sommer Foster ’14 (.382, 4 HR, 14 doubles). Foster and Lingle both earned All-Region and All-MWC honors, with Foster being voted the league’s co-Player of the Year.

En route to a return to the MWC playoffs, the Scots weren’t a one-dimensional team. Pitchers Skyler Johnson ’15 and Alyssa Edler ’15 combined to start 30 games, and Edler earned All-MWC honors, posting a team-high seven wins.

BASEBALL: The Scots doubled their victory total from the year be-fore, finishing 16-18 with a 7-9 mark in the MWC South, two games out of a playoff spot. One of their wins was a milestone, as coach Roger Sander passed his mentor, Terry Glasgow, with his 344th coaching victory. At the close of his 21st season at the helm, Sander has 353 wins. Second baseman Ryan Crandall ’14 (.331, team-high 26 RBI) and pitcher Austin Hardy ’17 earned All-MWC honors. Matt Glenn ’14 (.287, 4 HR, 19 RBI) also put up strong offensive numbers.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO: In a season of firsts for the college’s newest sport, Monmouth officially played its first varsity match on March 14 (an 18-7 loss to Macalester) and, after a few near-miss-es, won its first match on March 29 (a 9-7 victory over Penn State-Behrend).

The first-ever goal came from Cassidy O’Connell ’16, and she also starred in Monmouth’s two victories, notching six goals in the first one and scoring three in the Scots’ season finale, a 7-4 triumph over Penn State-Behrend, where she made the all-tournament team. With a team-best 62 goals, O’Connell was named the Scots’ first all-conference player by the Collegiate Water Polo Associa-tion.

The all-time wins leader in Fighting Scots women’s basketball history has stepped down to continue her education. Melissa Jones Bittner ’03—who compiled a 133-83 record over nine sea-sons—announced her departure in July. Her .615 winning percentage also leads all coaches in the 40–year history of the program.

“I’m extremely thankful for all the opportunities Monmouth College has afforded me,” said Bit-tner. “I’ve been contemplating for some time going back to school to earn my Ph.D. and felt like this was the right time. It’s a bittersweet decision. Monmouth is a first-rate institution.”

Bittner led the team to their first Midwest Conference Tournament championship and NCAA tour-nament appearance in 2012. The following season, the team earned their first national ranking. She leaves the program after setting the school’s season record for wins during the 2012–13 campaign and posting eight consecutive winning seasons. The Scots have played in the last four MWC tournament championship games.

In 2003, Bittner was named an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist and, 10 years later, the three-sport athlete was inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame. She and her husband, Bryan Bittner ’04, welcomed their first child this spring.

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CLAN NOTES1938 Clairus and Elizabeth Johnson Dew ’41, of Fort Wayne, Ind., who met as students at Monmouth, celebrated their 70th anniversary on June 14, 2013. Elizabeth retired from a teaching career in Fort Wayne, while Clairus retired as head of the underwriting department at Midwestern United Life Insurance Co.

1946John Allaman of Kirkwood, Ill., celebrated his 90th birthday on May 27.

1950Graceleanor “Gem” Baird of Kalaheo, Hawaii, has published a novel titled An Hour and a Half From Tomorrow. It is available through ama-zon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

Joseph “Jack” McGuire of Wheaton, Ill., has authored Grand Crossing: Coming of Age on Chicago’s South Side during the Great Depression (See Books, p. 19). His rite of passage story centers on the McGuire household, dominated by his hard-drinking, volatile Irish-American father, Chicago police detective Martin “Mugsy” McGuire. Jack McGuire is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, working for Variety and founding 20 North Productions.

1951 Marcia Hickok Johnson and her husband celebrated their 65th wed-ding anniversary on June 5. They have four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Lee Marshall of Palm Desert, Calif., is vice president of international marketing at Sierracin Corp. in Sylmar, Calif. He and his wife celebrat-ed their 60th wedding anniversary in 2013.

1954 Bonnie Bondurant Shaddock of Laguna Woods, Calif., was honored after retiring from a five-year stint as chairwoman of the Saddleback Memorial Foundation. She helped to raise more than $35 million during a time of economic crisis and was praised for having “a heart of gold.”

1955 60Th reunion June 2015

1958 John Niblock of Charleston, S.C., was honored at a November 2013 reception in Raleigh, N.C., celebrat-ing the 30th anniversary of Action for Children, a child advocacy group Niblock founded in 1983. He was also recently named Carolinas editor and sales manager for The Produce News.

1960 55th reunion June 2015

1963 Karen Bowman Angotti received the 2014 Citizen of the Year award from the Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce for her work as founder and director of Rainbow Riders Therapeutic Horseback Rid-ing Center.


1966 William Stris of Valley Stream, N.Y., received a lifetime achievement award from the New York School Boards Association, the highest lev-el of recognition it bestows upon a school board member.

1968 David Kingsley and his wife retired on Dec. 31, 2013, and closed their law office, Kingsley & Kingsley in Plantation, Fla., so that they could travel more and spend time with their four grandchildren.

Bob Kukla of Edwardsburg, Mich., was one of 25 individuals worldwide who were awarded fellow status in the American Society for Quality in 2013.

Charles Potter Jr. of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., received the Tax Executive In-stitute of Pittsburgh’s Distinguished Service Award for furthering the principles and progress of tax administration and the profession. Pot-ter is a shareholder and tax attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in downtown Pittsburgh.


Gary Sears, who has served in city management for 43 years, will retire from his city manager position in Englewood, Colo., in Sep-

Ethel “Mickey” Milligan Bailey ’52 of New Wilmington, Pa., was featured in a BBC-TV documentary on Dr. Jonas Salk and the development of the polio vaccine. She is one of only three living members of the 25-person team that worked on the vaccine. The Battle to Beat Polio can be viewed on YouTube.


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tember. Sears has been involved with several positive develop-ment projects in the Denver suburb since taking over the po-sition in 1997.

1971 Charles Caulkins of Ft. Lauder-dale, Fla., has been named to “The Top 100 Most Powerful Em-ployment Attorneys” by Human Resource Executive magazine. Caulkins has been the manag-ing partner at the Ft. Lauderdale office of Fisher & Phillips LLP for more than 25 years.

1973Jane Kurtz of Portland, Ore., re-cently released her latest book, Anna Was Here. Called a “mov-ing, coming-of-age story,” the book is available from Amazon. Kurtz is on the faculty of the Ver-mont College of Fine Arts.

The Rev. Dr. Precious Mays-Matthews graduated from Chicago Theological Seminary last year with a doctor of ministry degree. She was recently appointed senior pastor of Christ Church of Truth-The Knowledge Center in Chicago.

1974 40th reunion October 3-5, 2014

Dennis Tavares of Boulder, Colo., is CIO and senior consultant/an-alyst at Tavares Consulting in Denver.

1975Skip Whitten is a systems ad-ministrator for Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG, Inc., in Oxford, Conn.

1976 Neil Alexander earned his 700th career high school basketball coaching victory in January, as his Railsplitters from Lincoln (Ill.) defeated Taylorville. At the time of the milestone, Alexander had 541 wins at Lincoln. During his 37-year coaching career, he has also coached at Westmer, Yorkwood and Bushnell-Prairie City.

Bruce Weiman of Fisher, Ill., was named the 2013 IHSA Boys Track and Field Official of the Year.

1977 Mark Moore teaches at Netza-

berg Middle School in Ammerthal, Germany.

1978 Dr. Joseph Welty of Dixon, Ill., was named Family Physician of the Year by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians. He has practiced medicine in Dixon for nearly 30 years.



Robin Jarvis of San Antonio, Texas, has co-authored Staff Educa-tor’s Guide to Clinical Orientation: On Boarding Solutions for Nurses. The book was written, in part, to help the nursing profession over-come 22 percent of new employees quitting during their first 45 days on the job. Jarvis is principal of R. L. Jarvis & Associates, which provides leadership development and strategic facilitation.

Helen Culp Lawrence of Hampshire, Ill., is the band/orchestra direc-tor at Hampshire High School. She was a 2013 finalist for the Golden Apple Award and was chosen as one of 18 distinguished educators to be part of the Golden Apple Foundation. Her daughter, Katelyn Lawrence ’15, is a drum major for the Fighting Scots Marching Band.

Clay Vass took a career record of 392-206 into his most recent bas-ketball coaching job at Illini Bluffs High School.

1987 Kendall Carrier of Bradenton, Fla., is director of bands at Braden River High School. His marching band won state championships in 2012 and 2013. A five-time Teacher of the Year award winner, he directs the largest high school jazz program in the state of Florida.

1988 William Ault of Toledo, Ill., is a teacher’s aide and coach at Cumber-land High School.

These Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers vacationed together in 2013. From left are Dave Jackson ’69, Dave Nielsen ’69, Wendell Shauman ’67, Dave Lindgren ’63, Payson Wild ’67, Bob Brink ’68 and Russ Andrews ’68. The men are part of a larger group of mostly Sig Eps who have stayed close since their Monmouth days and gathered at various times over the years.

At a Homecoming tailgate at Monmouth, a group of alumni had such a fun time that they decided to get together for a long weekend the following summer. They have had nine such “Big Chill” weekends, including this 2013 gathering. In front are, from left, Bev Nelson ’61, Joan Wentland and Barb Divinsky Brundage ’60. In back are, from left, Jim Nelson ’60, Ed Wentland ’60, Don Hellison ’60, Mary Bullard Ford ’60, Nan Van Natta Wherry ’60, Karen Richter Herriott ’61 and Dick Wherry ’60.

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Daniel Cotter, vice president, general counsel and secretary for Fideli-ty Life Association, was installed as the 138th president of The Chicago Bar Association (CBA) at its annual luncheon meeting in June. He is serving a one-year term.


Don Farr of Roseville, Ill., was named Middle School Principal of the Year by the Illinois Principals Association (IPA). The principal of Mon-mouth-Roseville Junior High School, Farr will be recognized by the IPA

in October and receive a $1,000 honorarium.

Bradley Nahrstadt, a partner with Lipe Lyons Murphy Nahrstadt & Pontikis, has been invited to become a fellow in the Litigation Counsel of Ameri-ca. The LCA is a trial lawyer honorary society whose membership is limited to less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Nahrstadt also donat-ed $10,000 to the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational

Foundation to create a fund to be used to help defray the costs asso-ciated with attending fraternity leadership programs. As a Monmouth student, Nahrstadt was president of the fraternity’s Illinois Gamma chapter. “My involvement in Sigma Phi Epsilon shaped who I am—as a person and as a leader,” said Nahrstadt, who has served as the Illi-nois district governor for the fraternity since 2007. Nahrstadt was also recently elected as secretary/treasurer of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel. He will progress through the positions in the executive committee and become president in 2018.

1990Pamela Meanes of Fairview Heights, Ill., a partner at Thompson Co-burn, was elected president of the National Bar Association, the association of African-American lawyers and judges. She ran on a platform of financial stability, effective communication, advocacy for civil and political rights and practical member benefits, receiving 74 percent of the vote at the association’s annual meeting. Meanes has 20 years of experience as a civil litigator.

Christy Ogilvie McCreary of Roselle, Ill., is the author of That Kind of Girl, a Midwestern Gothic tale set in 1933 and available on Amazon.

1991 Stephen Klien of Rock Island, Ill., was promoted to professor of com-munication studies at Augustana College, where he is also the director of the Center for Faculty Enrichment.

1992 Kate Francis has been named vice president for development the Arts and Education Council in St. Louis, Mo. She will guide the council’s fundraising efforts. Most recently, Francis served as chief de-velopment officer for the YWCA Metro St. Louis. She previously worked for Jazz St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony.


Chris Heatherly was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. Heatherly is an instructor in the Department of Joint, Multi-

national and Interagency Operations at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Jenn Morgan of Lincolnwood, Ill., is an acupuncturist at Bridging Chan-nels in Glenco, Ill. She earned her master’s degree last year from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine and became a licensed acupunc-turist earlier this year.

1995 Debra Jackowniak Scarlett was featured in an article about the five-year renovation of her 4,000-square-foot home in Whitefish, Bay, Wis. She is a dermatologist at Madison Medical in Milwaukee.

1996 Matthew Fisher is the total rewards supervisor at Caesar’s Entertain-ment in Las Vegas, Nev. He received his master’s degree in theatre from UNLV last year.

Vanessa Treat Wetterling of Monmouth has been promoted to presi-dent and CEO of Prairie Radio Communications.

1997 Jill Bowles Boland is now the development director at Champaign (Ill.) County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).

Kunal Kapoor was named head of Information Products and Client Solutions at Morningstar. The Information Products group is responsible for prod-uct development, manufacturing and innovation at Morningstar, a leading provider of independent in-vestment research. Kapoor joined the firm as a data analyst in 1997.

Melissa Andeerson Clark ’96 of Betten-dorf, Iowa, pictured with emeritus the-atre professor Jim De Young, has remained active on the stage, recently playing Fio-na in the Countryside Community Theatre’s production of Shrek: The Musical, in which her sons Spencer, 13, and Harper, 10, also performed. She has had singing leads in Quad City-area pro-ductions of Cabaret, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Drowsy Chaperone and Sunday in the Park with George, and dramatic roles in The Beauty Queen of Leenane and God of Carnage.


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The spark that was ignited in a cre-ative writing class at Monmouth College has led to a fulfilling career for Jennifer Campbell Young, a 1991 graduate who returned to campus last fall to encourage students to consider career opportunities in en-vironmental consulting.

Among Young’s career-defining experiences was a development project in Ventura County, Calif., for which she managed empiri-cally designed studies and population monitoring surveys for the endangered San Fernando Valley spineflower (SFVS).

Young authored the listing package for SFVS for the state Fish and Game Commission, which remains the basis for the biology and ecology provided by the state for that taxon. She also helped implement hydrological and biological monitoring programs to minimize surface impacts from tunnel construction to the San Ber-nadino Forest and adjacent tribal lands.

Employed by PSOMAS, a mid-size engineering firm in downtown Los Angeles, Young holds the position of project manager/senior biologist and serves as an associate.

“I really make my living as a technical writer,” said Young, who had some of her first memorable experiences with writing in a course taught by English professor Craig Watson. “You have to tell the story of what the data is telling you, but write it in a compelling way. The writing is key. You’ve got to learn to write. I wasn’t good at it when I first started writing at Monmouth, but I just got better and better at it through the years.”

That academic progress is only one of several elements of Young’s education that were of interest to MC students who attended her on-campus forum. Others included:

• an off-campus study experience that enhanced her Mon-mouth education, greatly improving her communication skills;

• a love of learning that enabled her to add to her academic résumé with graduate studies in ecology;

• combining the disciplines of her MC English major with her ex-pertise in botany to become a highly successful technical writer on environmental issues; and

• her current exploration of the business-science interactions available in environmental consulting.

Young intended to major in biology, but got off to a slow start with an 8 a.m. chemistry class in the fall of her freshman year. “I wasn’t academically prepared to take that class,” recalled Young, who continued to stay on the science track until midway through her sophomore year. “I was struggling, and I remember thinking, ‘Maybe science isn’t for me.’ Looking back, I just wasn’t the right age for it.”

An influential experience for Young was participating in an As-sociated Colleges of the Midwest off-campus study program in Washington, D.C. “I fell in love with D.C.,” she said. “I knew that after graduation, I wanted to live either there or Chicago.” Chicago won out, and it was there where Young began thinking about sci-ence again.

“I put myself through an exercise,” she said. “I went to the library, and I asked myself, ‘How do I want to live my life, both profes-sionally and outside of work?’ I wanted to work in the field, and I wanted to live in the city. As I answered these big questions about work, I was drawn toward ecology, so I volunteered at the Lincoln Park Zoo and at a prairie preserve. The wildlife restoration was fabulous—I was sold.”

Intentionality came into play again, as she studied her options for graduate work in ecology. “There were opportunities in the field of restoration ecology at UW-Madison, and everywhere in California,” she said. “I chose California.”

She received a transfer from her day job at WBBM Radio to the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles. After laying her groundwork in science with courses at Cal State-Fullerton, she eventually settled at San Diego State University, where she earned a master’s degree in biology.

Accidental English major finds successful career in technical science

JENNIFER CAMPBELL YOUNG ’91

THE WRITING IS KEY.

—BARRY McNAMARA

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1998 Cindy Johnson Beaudry is a library media specialist for Rockford (Ill.) Public Schools.

Angela Charsha of Coralville, Iowa, was honored with Iowa’s 2013 Governors Award for Volunteerism. She has been involved with the Girls on the Run organization for six years and was instrumental in bringing the program to eastern Iowa.

Chad Simpson of Monmouth won the Teresa A. White Literary Award from the Quiddity In-ternational Literary Journal and Public Radio Program for his story, “I Later Learned the Fish Was a Gar.” The story was written in response to Matthew Sugarman’s print, Lost Horizon, which Simpson saw on display at Western Illi-nois University.


Joanna Davison Triebel accepted a position as vice president of Strategic Pharma Solutions, a medical communications and adver-tising agency in Raleigh, N.C. She had previously worked 15 years at Glaxo Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals.

2000 Sarah Stevenson Hudgeons of Fort Worth, Texas, is an internation-al program manager for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, focusing on Japan.

2001 Matt Fotis won The Dr. Henry P. and M. Page Laughlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Re-search for his book, Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold. Fotis is an asso-ciate professor of theatre at Albright College in Reading, Pa.

2003Megan Smith Krandel of Woodstock, Ill., is an LTD case manager for MetLife in Mount Prospect.

Dawn McRoberts Strauss, who has taught at the Kenwood Acad-

emy in Chicago since 2005, received the 2012 Illinois Latin Teacher of the Year Award.

Lindsey Jozefiak Whately of Caledonia, Ill., is a senior statistical an-alyst at Grainger in Lake Forest, Ill.


Jennifer Heiman is a corporate tax project manager for Boeing in Chicago.

Kristin Martin is a vice president at Crestmark Bank in Boynton Beach, Fla.

2005 Crystal Lang Click of Crystal Lake, Ill., is a staffing representative for Baxter Healthcare in Round Lake,Ill.

Ryan Danzinger is chairman of the Village of Arlington Heights (Ill.) Commission for Citizens with Disabilities. He is also assistant coach of the Hersey High School debate team.

Rhian Droy lives in Llanelli, Wales, where he owns Stamps Pub.

2006 Christopher Bastean is a hospital corpsman for the U.S. Navy at 29 Palms Naval Hospital in California.

2007 Sarah Braun is a graduate student at The American University of Paris, where she is working on her second master’s degree. Her first, in art conservation, was obtained in Lugano, Switzerland.

Paige Taylor Leath of Dallas City, Ill., is a special education teacher in the Fort Madison (Iowa) school district.

2008 Hayley Townsend Bold is a teacher at Knowledge Universe in Ap-pleton, Wis.

Hayley Parrott Down of Toulon, Ill., is a third-grade teacher in Ke-wanee.

Mark Lakis of East Galesburg, Ill., recently opened Heroes Never Die, a collectibles store.

Ben Olson ’12 spends summers in Galesburg, Ill., as assistant golf pro at Lake Bracken, and winters as an assistant pro in Florida. Last winter he worked at Card Sound Golf Club in North Key Largo, which in March played host to Presi-dent Obama. Olson is pictured at left.

Class of 1963 friends Anne Matthews Kilpatrick, Lolly Okey Turner Hoffman, Livvy Lunn Gibb, Barbara Sprague Aberlin, Judy Sluka Butch-er, Mary Sheese Sass and Ann Mack Collier gathered in Charleston, S.C., a for a week. “After 50 years, our friendships are still strong and meaningful,” said Gibb.


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Had it not been for a study-abroad opportunity before his senior year at Monmouth College, the 2012 graduate might have been con-tent to stay near home, a place he said he knows “like the back of my hand.”

But soon after graduating, Devlin’s adventurous spirit, which had been kindled by a two-week experience at the prestigious Fulbright International Summer Institute in Bulgaria in 2012, won out. Receiv-ing a tip from the organizer of his Bulgaria trip, MC associate dean Bren Tooley, Devlin immediately told her he was “on board” and packed his bags for Suzhou, China, where he is a college counseling intern at the Dulwich College International High School Programme, an exclusive school that caters to the upper 1 percent of Chinese society.

Now, Devlin makes his home just a half-hour train ride from Shang-hai, the world’s fifth-largest city. He is adjusting so well to the new culture that he recently received a promotion. In other words, he has impressed his employers, including his immediate supervisor, Travis Coverdell, a 1992 Monmouth graduate.

Part of Devlin’s role is to teach the high school students in China about different experiences they will encounter when they matric-ulate at U.S. colleges and universities.

“I think we’re doing some pretty good things,” he said of his England-based company, which has been working with international schools for 10 years. “There are about 320 kids in the school, and I see about 160 of them, helping prepare them for the transition to studying abroad and prepare for the application process.”

One thing that is not different about Devlin’s experience is that 100 percent of the instruction is in English. A contrast occurs, though, when he asks students about their aspirations. In the U.S., says Devlin, a group of freshmen students would freely volunteer their ideas and dreams for their future.

“But for the Chinese students, it’s like pulling teeth,” he said. “Part of what I’m doing is helping these kids develop ideas. They have their nose in the book, but they don’t develop ideas outside of that. Their system is very lecture-oriented, but I’ve found that critical thinking and problem solving are an issue.”

Devlin developed such skills at Monmouth while being immersed in four academic disciplines. He double majored in communication

studies and public relations, while adding minors in histo-ry and business.

“That definitely broadened my experience, broadened my perspective,” said Devlin. “I think the biggest thing was I expanded my breadth of knowledge.”

His experience in Bulgaria contributed greatly to that new perspective, showing him globalization first hand.

“That was the first time I had ever been out of country,” he said. “You’re told about globalization in school, but it’s hard to teach. It really clicked for me when I went to Bulgaria and I was able to compare the American per-spective about issues with the perspective of someone from a developing country or a Communist country. I became aware of different cultures and how they think about the world.” Today, Devlin says he has friends from such countries as the Netherlands, Germany, Kenya, the UK, Spain, France and Indonesia, some of whom he met through a 40-member expatriate basketball league he helped de-velop.

Coming out of high school, Devlin recalls, “I didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do,” so helping students gain a better under-standing of that has developed into a passion.

“The chances are pretty good I’ll stick with college counseling. I went through that really rough road of uncertainty, and I would like to help other people through that, either through counseling or, on the other end, as an admission representative at a college. Eventually, I can envision getting my master’s and my doctorate in that field.”

YOU’RE TOLD ABOUT GLOBALIZATION IN SCHOOL, BUT IT’S HARD TO TEACH.

Growing up in the western Illinois town of New Windsor, population 720, Luke Devlinnever dreamed he would be working near a city of 30 million residents, half a world away.

LUKE DEVLIN ’12


—BARRY McNAMARA

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2008 continuedJoanna Martorelli is a clinical case manager at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in Boston, Mass.

Sarah Sherry of Richton Park, Ill., is a supply NCO for the Illinois Army National Guard.


Felicia Roberts of New Boston, Ill., is a solutions account associate for the Hon Co. in Muscatine, Iowa.

2010 Joe Moran, who received his J.D. from DePaul University last year, was recently named the new assistant state’s attorney for Hancock County. While in law school, he served an internship with the Kane County state’s attor-ney’s office. He and his wife, Jessica Houser Moran ’09, have settled in Carthage, Ill.

Dusty Sanor Spurgeon has taken an active role in Spur-geon Veggies CSA, which produces food for the Spurgeon family, a CSA and a local farmers’ market on property be-tween East Galesburg and Henderson, Ill.

Clay Staley has been promoted to corporate safety and environmental engineer by Ox Paperboard. He will remain based out of the company’s Pekin, Ill., mill.

2011Andrew Aberle received his doctorate degree in physical therapy from Bradley University’s College of Education and Health Sciences.

Kayla Winbigler Jones of Palatine, Ill., is a senior accoun-tant for Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP in Chicago.

Lucas Knox of East Moline, Ill., is a recruiting partner at Aerotek in Davenport, Iowa.

Nicole Olin of Galesburg, Ill., recently began a new posi-tion as a hospice care consultant for Hospice Compassus in Galesburg.

Kate Runge recently started a public relations job with Chad Pregracke’s Living Lands and Waters, based in East Moline, Ill. Pregracke, who has spoken several times at Monmouth College, was named CNN’s Hero of the Year for his efforts to clean up U.S. rivers, most notably the Mississippi.

2012 Julie Battcher is now working at Rasmussen College in Aurora, Ill., as admissions program manager.

2013 1st reunion October 3-5, 2014

Logan Bowman of Omaha, Neb., is a ticket operations in-tern for the Omaha Storm Chasers, the AAA affiliate of the Kansas City Royals.

Arica Brazil of Homewood, Ill., is a corps member for City Year Chicago.

Kevin Lindsay is a media support specialist at Monmouth College, continuing work he did as an undergraduate in-tern with the website, electronic media and social media.

Kyle McEwen is the club professional and course manag-er at Hawthorn Ridge Golf Club in Aledo, Ill.

Holly Pierce of Altona, Ill., was hired to work at Action In-come Tax Service.

Samantha Seemann of Union, Ill., was accepted to the prestigious University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, one of just 28 veterinary schools in the nation.

Ashley Sorenson is employed by the Chicago White Sox.

Monmouth’s development and college relations office has welcomed three alumni to its staff—Gena Alcorn ’88, Jennifer Erickson Sanberg ’10 and Katie Shipp ’13.

An associate development officer, Alcorn comes to Monmouth from Galesburg, where she worked the previous 10 years and served as the director of the Carl Sandburg College Foundation. Alcorn was on Monmouth’s staff from 1995 to 2000 as director of alumni programs.

After graduating from MC with a degree in business, Sanberg worked three years at Allsteel in Muscatine, Iowa. As assistant director of annual giving, Sanberg is working to obtain increased levels of annual support from alumni, parents and friends of the college.

Shipp is the new assistant director of alumni relations. For the past

year, she was the executive administrator for the Peoria Marriott Pere Marquette. A business administration and economics major with a minor in Spanish, Shipp served as president of the Associ-ated Students of Monmouth College her senior year.

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WEDDINGS1998 Kelly Sutton Everding

a daughter, Sophia September 4, 2012

Toby Vallas and Kristin a daughter, Elin Iselle June 10, 2014

2001 Jenny Bjoin Boone and Elijah a son, Garrett Benjamin August 26, 2013

2002 Tanya Moore Skinner and Aaron a daughter, Layla Jane December 17, 2013

2003 Melissa Jones Bittner and Bryan ’04 a daughter, Quin Marley May 4, 2014

2004 Michelle Flaar Carlson and Adam a son, Carter John July 24, 2013

Michelle Meyer Messman and Chad a son, Riddick Augustus October 16, 2013

Brooke Hulet Webber and Jason a son, Landyn Scott October 11, 2013

2005 Tracey Gondek Bebout and Benjamin a son, Benedict Oliver October 8, 2012

Sara Poggi Potter and Brian ’06 a daughter, Charlotte Snow April 14, 2013

2007 Tiffany Ludwig Southwood and Tyler ’05 a son, Gavin Andrew March 29, 2014

2008 Sara Hitchcock Lovell and Joshua a daughter, Annabelle Grace January 22, 2013

Ashley Yeast Tanney and Mitch ’06 a son, Micah Geoffrey June 2, 2014

2010 Emily Belrichard and John Hudson a daughter, Gabriella Addrene December 29, 2013

Anita Kubischta and Vincent a son, Elijah

2011 Kim Howard Lumzy and Peyton a daughter, Lianna September 2013

2012 Erin Murphy and Ethan Pullen a daughter, Berkley Ann September 8, 2013

Madelyn Ethington and Kyle Christensen

1956 Carolyn Copeland and Sydney Cammenga May 3, 2013

2001 Mary Beth McGregor and Scott Luczu October 26, 2013

2004 Amy Vaught and Joseph Warszalek January 18, 2014

2005 Mollie McNamara and Jacob Emery December 9, 2013

2006 Anna Jordan and Christopher Bastean April 26, 2014

2007 Chelsea Brandt and Adam Ekstedt April 27, 2013

Paige Taylor and Quinn Leath November 29, 2013

Sarah Zaleski and Kevin Degarmo June 22, 2013

2008 Kelly Compton and Jason Cheline June 8, 2013

Hayley Parrott and Thomas Down Jr. September 8, 2012

2009 Madelyn Ethington and Kyle Christensen July 20, 2013

2011 Cassie Hart and Rodney Clayton July 13, 2013

Kim Howard and Peyton Lumzy May 5, 2012

2013 Rachel Jacob and Jack Donnelly December 2012

Cassie Hart and Rodney Clayton

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Riddick Augustus Messman

Charlotte Snow Potter

Gavin Andrew Southwood

Sarah Zaleski and Kevin Degarmo

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1932 Esther Law Williams, 102, of Saratoga, Calif., died Oct. 17, 2013. She grad-uated with a degree in mathematics and was a member of the women’s tennis team and Alpha Xi Delta.

1933 Mary Alice Smith, 101, of Harvey, Ill., died Aug. 7, 2013. Born 11-11-11 in Omaha, Neb., she moved to Princeton, Ill., before enrolling at Monmouth, where she majored in English. After a short stint as a teacher, she embarked on a career as a school librarian. The library at Bremen High School in Midlothian, Ill., is named in her honor.

1934 Kathryn Miller Henderson, 100, of Monmouth died July 2, 2013. She studied business at Monmouth for two years and worked at Spurgeon’s and Bowman Colwell in Monmouth.

1936 Faye Hamman, 99, of Decatur, Ill., died June 29, 2013. A member of Alpha Xi Delta, she completed her education degree at the University of Illinois, then became a teacher.

Isabel Bickett Marshall, 99, of Monmouth, died Jan. 1, 2014. She majored in sociology and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. Marshall remained con-nected to her alma mater all her life and received MC’s Distinguished Service Award in 2001. She was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Dr. James Marshall ’36. Survivors include children John Marshall ’68 and Jane Marshall Kellogg ’72 and a granddaughter, Lucy Kellogg Thompson ’99.

Dr. Wilbert Scott, 99, of Dallas Texas, died Feb. 27, 2014. A member of the swim team, Scott majored in chemistry before receiving a graduate

degree from Northwestern University Medical School in 1941. For the next five years, he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in North Africa and Italy, receiving three medals and two Bronze Stars and achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1947, Scott began practicing internal medicine in Amarillo, Texas, staying active in his field until 1992. During that time, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at the Texas Tech Medi-cal School.

Jane Zimmer Swanson, 98, of Normal, Ill., died Aug. 30, 2013. She grad-uated with a degree in history and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She worked for 40 years at the Illinois State Medical Society, the last 20 as executive secretary of the society’s women’s auxiliary.

1938Dr. Robert Gordon, 98, of Nebraska City, Neb., died April 10, 2014. A chemistry major and member of the track team, he went on to the Univer-sity of Illinois College of Medicine, then spent a year of internship at Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. Gordon joined the Naval Reserve, serving 18 months in the South Pacific as a medical officer. Fol-lowing World War II, he served 18 years as a medical missionary in the Sudan, directed the Mora Valley Medical Unit for seven years and had a private practice for 11 years.

Virginia Sharer Nordstrom, 95, of Moline, Ill., died Oct. 5, 2013. Before retiring as a license examiner for the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, she taught in a one-room school in Mercer County and worked for the Illinois State Highway Department.

1940Charles Coulter, 95, of Whittier, Calif., died Nov. 19, 2013. He graduated with a degree in geology and was a member of the swim team. After serv-ing in England and France during World War as a second lieutenant in the

Gordon Duncan Wimpress, seventh president of Monmouth College died Jan. 6, 2014, at the age of 91 in San Antonio, Texas. Wimpress, who assumed the presidency in 1964 at the age of 42, was Monmouth’s first non-clergy president and helped steer the college into the modern era. He quickly established an expan-sionist policy, increasing enrollment and add-ing faculty. He oversaw the college’s first modern capital campaign, a $2.6 million effort

to construct a new science building and library.

Three new residence halls—Gibson, Cleland and Liedman—and a fra-ternity complex were also built during his presidency.

Always a man of action and vigor, Wimpress enjoyed piloting his own airplane, driving a Corvette, playing golf and playing the drums. He won the admiration of many students for his support of the civil rights movement and Vietnam peace marches.

Wimpress left Monmouth College in June 1970 at the height of its peak enrollment of 1,300 students to assume the presidency of Trinity University in San Antonio, where he served until 1976.

A native of Riverside, Calif., Wimpress earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and political science from the Uni-versity of Oregon and a Ph.D. in general semantics from the Univer-sity of Denver. After five years of teaching journalism at Whittier College and seven years as assistant to the president of the Colo-rado School of Mines, he assumed the presidency of Monticello College in Alton, Ill., which he held for five years.

A frequent commercial airline flyer (40,000 miles per year), Wim-press once explained he got tired of the delays caused by making connections to small towns, so he obtained his pilot’s license while at Monticello and began clocking an additional 25,000 miles per year. At Monmouth, he flew a Cessna that was owned by a friend and leased at low cost to the college.


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Army Air Corps, he worked for a few years as a jeweler and watch-maker. He then moved to California, where he worked 27 years as an engineering geologist with L.A. County Flood Control. He was pre-ceded in death by his wife, Helen Buchanan Coulter ’40.

Kathryn Swearingen Smith, 94, of Aledo, Ill., died Oct. 22, 2013. She studied English at Monmouth before graduating from the University of Colorado.

1941Doris Robinson Eyler, 96, of Naples, Fla., died Jan. 19, 2014. She majored in business and was a member of Crimson Masque and Kappa Delta. Eyler was a paraprofessional in the business department at Concord High School in Wilmington, Del., for a number of years. She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Robert Eyler ’40, and a brother, Donald Robinson ’43.

Scott Hoyman, 93, of Rohrersville, Md., died Feb. 27, 2014. The son of Presbyterian missionaries, he was born in Egypt. He majored in gov-ernment and, from 1951 on, dedicated his career to organizing textile workers in the South, particularly in North Carolina. Hoyman received an honorary degree from Monmouth in 1985. He was preceded in death by a sister, Jane Hoyman Carpenter ’35.

Ann Jones Manor, 93, of Lakeland, Fla., died Jan. 29, 2013. She gradu-ated with a degree in English and was a member of Crimson Masque and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Survivors include her husband of 69 years, James Manor ’40.

1942 Fred Alexander of Evanston, Ill., died Nov. 22, 2013. After finishing college, he served in the U.S. Army, including three years in Europe during World War II. Alexander retired in 1985, working the last 28 years at Motorola in advertising and marketing. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Jean Shanks Alexander ’43 (see below).

The Rev. Paul Coleman, 92, of Gibsonia, Pa., died May 27, 2014. He graduated with a degree in English and was a member of the football and swim teams. Coleman served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Italy during World War II. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he earned graduate degrees from Pittsburgh Xenia Seminary, Harvard Divinity School and the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his Ph.D. Coleman founded Christ Church United Presbyterian in Youngstown, Pa.

Alice Long Wilson of Wheaton, Ill., died March 1, 2014. She majored in history and was a teacher in the Illinois towns of Gladstone, Moline and Wheaton. The niece of legendary MC faculty member Grace Gaw-throp Peterson ’22, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Wilson ’44.

1943 Jean Shanks Alexander, 90, of Evanston, Ill., died Aug. 4, 2012. She graduated with a degree in music and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She worked at Evanston Township High School for nearly 20 years. In middle age, she took up art, studying at the Evanston Art Center and Northwestern University. Her husband was Fred Alexander ’42.

Karl Beck of Toledo, Ohio, died Aug. 25, 2013. He majored in chemistry and received his Ph.D. in that discipline from the University of Illinois.

A leading authority on synthetic sweeteners, he worked all but two years of his career at Abbott Laboratories. He published 43 research papers and articles, the first of those based on work he did at Mon-mouth with Professor Garrett Thiessen. Survivors include a daughter, Laura Beck Anderson ’75.

Gloria Rathbun McKie of Galesburg, Ill., died June 6, 2014. A history major and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, she was a teacher in several communities in and around the Galesburg area.

1944Elizabeth McCartney Liggett, 92, of Basking Ridge, N.J., died April 18, 2014. She studied biology and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Survivors include her husband of 70 years.

Vivian Cook McMichael, 90, of Forest Grove, Ill., died Aug. 30, 2013. She studied elementary education for two years and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Thomas McMichael ’44, who was grandson and great- grandson of two Monmouth College presidents. Survivors include a son, Dan McMichael ’69. (See photo above]

Roberta McVey Wells, 90, of Fountain Hills, Ariz., died Dec. 16, 2013. She graduated with a degree in elementary education and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Wells taught in Monmouth for more than 20 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Wells ’45. Survivors include a son, Willis Wells ’68.

1945Ruth Kinney, 89, of Monmouth, died Dec. 9, 2013. After starting at MC, she completed her degree in education from Western Illinois Uni-versity. Kinney taught at four Illinois high schools, then earned a

The family of Vivian Cook McMichael ’44 gathers in June at the for-mer McMichael family home in Monmouth, across from the college campus, following her memorial service in the college chapel. The house was the retirement home of MC’s fourth president, T.H. McMi-chael, and later the home of his son, longtime MC business manager David McMichael.

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master’s degree in library science from the University of Wisconsin and worked for 30 years as a librarian at York Community High School in Elm-hurst, Ill.

Louis Shimmin Pogue, 90, of Aurora, Ill., died April 24, 2014. She majored in Spanish and was a member of Crimson Masque and Alpha Xi Delta. She taught English, Spanish and physical education at the second-ary school level at several locations close to Monmouth, completing her career with 22 years at Dixon (Ill.) High School.

Alfred Simioni, 90, of Cornelius, N.C., died July 15, 2013. He studied math-ematics and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He was founder and past president of Simioni Builders in Charlotte, N.C., and co-owner of Industrial Cork. Co. and Midwest Pipe Covering in Elmhurst, Ill. Survivors include his wife of 64 years.

1946Ruth Marshall Smith Dudrow, 88, of Southbury, Conn., died Dec. 24, 2013. A member of Kappa Delta, she met her first husband, Allen Smith ’43, at Monmouth, before completing her college degree at Capital Uni-versity.

1947Betty Kaeppel Baumann, 90, of Woodruff, Wis., died Feb. 8, 2014. She graduated with a degree in history. She taught in Galva, Ill., and Gales-burg, Ill. Survivors include her husband of 63 years.

Joyce Busby, 89, of Litchfield, Ill., died Dec. 28, 2013. She followed her father to Monmouth and graduated with a degree in sociology while serv-ing as a member of Kappa Delta. Busby held many jobs throughout her life, working in the insurance industry, as district manager for Avon and at the University of Iowa’s Department of Publications. Shortly before her death, she gave her alma mater the funds to purchase its first new Stein-way piano in nearly a century.

Jesse Evans, 89, of Davenport, Iowa, died Nov. 18, 2013. An officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he completed an economics degree at Monmouth. Evans earned a master’s degree in music theory and music education at Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in music education at Indi-ana University. After 10 years in public schools, he was a professor at Taylor University, Cornell College (where he was named Iowa Music Edu-cator of the Year) and Augustana College. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Leola Brooks Evans ’49. Survivors include his second wife, former MC faculty member Caroline Porter Evans.

Rhoda Cooper McIntyre, 88, of Dublin, Ohio, died May 4, 2014. After receiving her MC degree in biology, she earned a master’s degree at Ohio State University. A longtime educator in the Hilliard (Ohio) City School District, she retired from the state of Ohio as a Title I Reading Program consultant. She was preceded in death by her husband of 56 years.

Shirley Dunlap Meneilly, 89, of Lenexa, Kansas, died June 12, 2014. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. She helped her husband (and childhood sweetheart), the Rev. Robert Meneilly ’45, to found a new United Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Merle Milligan, 91, of Edgewood, Colo., died Nov. 30, 2013. His MC educa-tion was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War, during which he was a mortar gunner in the 66th Army Division. After majoring in physics, he earned his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. Milligan was a mathematics professor at Adams State College, Albion College and Met-ropolitan State College. He was preceded in death by his three brothers—Bruce Milligan ’42, Floyd Milligan ’44 and Dale Milligan ’48—

and by his sister, Ethel Milligan Bailey ’52. Survivors include his wife of 65 years Louise Hoog Milligan ’48, whom he met during an MC musical pro-duction, in which they played the lead roles.

1948Lynn Arado Camp, 87, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died Jan. 19, 2014. She graduated with a degree in English and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She was a stewardess for Chicago and Southern Air Lines, based in Miami, New Orleans and Memphis. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Camp ’49.

Evelyn Capp Faassen, 88, of Barrington, Ill., died March 21, 2014. While at Monmouth, she studied biology and was a member of Kappa Delta. Survi-vors include her husband of 66 years, John, who was her high school sweetheart.

Loren Henderson of Kennewick, Wash., died Jan. 1, 2014. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and earned a Purple Heart after being wounded in Holland. At Monmouth, Henderson studied chemistry and was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. He completed his graduate degree at Iowa State University. In 1990, he retired from Battelle NW as a human resources manager. He had also worked at Westinghouse and General Electric.

Pete Keefer, 90, of San Dimas, Calif., died Feb. 14, 2104. He served in the U.S. Army in the European theater during World War II. He majored in business administration, was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon and started

Maxine Murdy Trotter ’47 of Santa Ana, Calif., a trustee emerita, died Feb. 8, 2014, at the age of 88. Her husband of 67 years, George Trotter Jr. ’47, died June 9, 2014. After attending Whittier Col-lege in California, Maxine transferred to Monmouth to complete her physical education degree. She was active in Chorale and Kappa Kappa Gamma. The president of Freeway Industrial Park in Santa Ana, Maxine served as treasurer of the MC board

of trustees for 20 years and was on the executive committee for part of that time. The Trotters became engaged before he left to fight in World War II, where he served as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater. After finishing their degrees at Monmouth Col-lege, they spent nine years in Illinois, interrupted by a return to California, where George completed a master’s of education. During his time in Illinois, George held various teaching, coaching and administrative positions at his alma mater and two local high schools. In 1956, the Trotters moved to California after George accepted a high school teaching and coaching position. Survivors include their son, Lt. Col. George E. Trotter III ’70, and George’s sister, Ruth Trotter Hollis ’42.


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Mary Castle Josephson ’51 of San Diego, Calif., died Feb. 8, 2014, at the age of 84. She majored in history and was a mem-ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma. After a brief teaching career, she was secretary and bookkeeper for the veterinary practice of her husband, Charles Josephson ’52, to whom she was mar-ried 61 years. A Monmouth College trustee for 24 years, Josephson earlier served on the college’s Alumni Board for five years. She was preceded in death by a sister, Shirley Cas-tle Sanders ’55.

an off-campus student hangout called The Slopshop that was very popular until the first student union was created on campus in the late 1940s. Keefer had celebrated his 90th birthday on April 20, 2013, with a party that was attended by more than 50 well-wishers.

Dorothy Smith Oaks, 86, of Monmouth, died Oct. 4, 2013. A music major, she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. She taught music in the Yorkwood School District for many years. Survivors include grand-daughters Jessica Carson Caslin ’00 and Jenna Carson Purlee ’04.

Marion Winbigler, 87, of East Moline, Ill., died Jan. 23, 2014. She majored in Spanish and French and had a two-year appointment in the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She came from a long line of Winbiglers with ties to Monmouth College, including her grandparents, John and Mary Small Winbigler, who were in the classes of 1865 and 1868, respectively. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Martha Winbigler ’53.

1949Joan Fraser, 87, of Canton, Mich., died Aug. 8, 2013. She studied ele-mentary education.

1950Wallace Cleland, 86, of San Francisco, Calif., died Sept. 15, 2013. He enrolled at Monmouth after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He then transferred to the University of Illinois, majoring in architec-tural design, and he worked as an architect, primarily with public schools. He was preceded in death by his father and stepmother, John Cleland and Eva Hanna Cleland, who both served on MC’s faculty, by his wife, Virginia Streeter Cleland ’46, and by brothers Robert Cleland ’41 and John Cleland ’43.

Richard Hildreth, 86, of Kewanee, Ill., died June 15, 2014. He graduated with a degree in business and was a member of the golf team and Theta Chi. Hildreth served in the Naval Reserves at the close of World War II and was called back to duty during the Korean War. After a stint as director of personnel and purchasing at Monmouth College, Hildreth was the office manager at Gamble Warehouse and retired as an accountant for Lakeworth (Fla.) Christian School. He also worked for Illinois Power. Survivors include a son, Thomas Hildreth ’83.

John Lemon, 85, of Ankeny, Iowa, died Dec. 16, 2013. He graduated with a degree in business administration and was a member of the baseball team and Tau Kappa Epsilon. An Army veteran, he retired from MidAmerican Energy in 1987.

Jerrold Linton, 86, of Batavia, Ill., died Dec. 2, 2013. He majored in physical education, played football and basketball and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Octopus Club. He was a math teacher and coach in Batavia and nearby Naperville.

Jane Martin Soerens, 84, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died Feb. 18, 2014. She majored in biology and was a member of Kappa Delta. Her first position out of college was at the University of Chicago, working under future Nobel Prize winner Charles Huggins. She and her husband moved to New Mexico, where she worked in plastic evaluation for Phil-lips Petroleum. After raising a family, she was a substitute teacher and private tutor in Monmouth County in New Jersey for a number of years. Soerens and her husband, Chester, celebrated 62 years of marriage two days before her passing, and her husband died four days later.

Robert Sympson, 86, of Athens, Ohio, died Jan. 3, 2014. Before attend-ing Monmouth, where he majored in chemistry and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, he served 15 months in the U.S. Navy during World

War II. After receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illi-nois, he taught at Ohio University from 1954 to 1992.

Donald Tezak, 90, of Urbandale, Iowa, died June 15, 2014. He gradu-ated with a degree in political science and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and the Octopus Club. During World War II, he was an ensign in the U.S. Navy, serving as a pilot on submarine patrol in the Atlantic. Tezak built and operated the Town House Motel in Joliet, Ill., in 1957, then turned his interests to real estate. Survivors include his wife of 62 years, Nancy Buchanan Tezak ’50.

1951Gerald “Chic” Anderson, 84, of Palatine, Ill., died Dec.4, 2013. The longtime athletic director at Palatine High School earned numerous honors, including the National High School Coaches Association Ath-letic Director of the Year in 1982 and induction into the Illinois Athletic Director’s Association Hall of Fame in 1998. Upon his retirement in 1988, his high school named its football field Chic Anderson Stadium.

Richard Bowker, 83, of Pittsburgh, Pa., died July 23, 2012. He majored in sociology.

William Komatsu, who lived in Japan, died Sept. 14, 2013. He followed his father, Takashi Komatsu ’10, to Monmouth and majored in physics. He received an electrical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952 and was employed by Mitsui SRC Development in Tokyo, retiring as vice president.

Joseph Vittori, 84, of Carlsbad, Calif., died July 1, 2013. He majored in history, then served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He taught mathematics and science in several schools in Illinois and the Los Angeles area.

1952Carol Hilsenhoff Basinger, 83, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., died Sept. 23, 2013. A member of Pi Beta Phi, she met her late husband, Reed Basinger ’50, at Monmouth. After raising her children and living in, among other places, England, she was a social worker at a retirement home.

James Cherry of Salinas, Calif., died Aug. 22, 2013. He majored in geol-ogy, then joined the Navy “to see the world,” serving most of his four years on the U.S.S. Estes. He continued to travel during a job with the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, as he mapped and charted the ocean in Iceland, southern Europe and Australia. He also worked for the Navy Oceanographic Office and for its postgraduate school in California. Survivors include his wife of more than 50 years.

Robert Ford, 83, of Carman, Ill., died June 22, 2014. He graduated with a degree in business and was a member of the track and football teams and the Octopus Club. He served in the U.S. Army during the

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Korean War, then used his MC degree to help run his family’s farming business. He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Evelyn Howell Ford ’52. Survivors include daughters Kristeen Ford Peterson ’81 and Kelly Ford ’85.

John Gunn, 82, of Cantonment, Fla., died June 24, 2013. He majored in business administration and was a member of the football team. He spent two years on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps and another 28 years in the reserves, retiring in 1994 as a colonel. Gunn covered news and sports for newspapers in Monmouth, Galesburg and four states beyond Illinois. He blended his interest in sports and the military by amassing a 7,000-piece collection of items related primarily to military sports and Marines in college and professional sports. He also authored two books on Marine Corps football.

Helen Hass of Eagle River, Wis., died Sept. 25, 2013. She was a member of Alpha Xi Delta.

Rose Marie Campagna Keidel of North Bend, Ohio, died June 17, 2014. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and received a degree from the nursing school at the University of Cincinnati.

Kathleen Kopp Kleinkopf of Lakewood, Colo., died March 9, 2014. She studied English and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. An accomplished artist, she was one of the founders of the city of Lakewood.

James Nissen, 82, of Estes Park, Colo., died June 24, 2013. Before com-pleting his degree at Northwestern University, he studied business and was a member of the swim team and Sigma Phi Epsilon. He worked for Illinois Bell and Ameritech for 32 years, retiring in 1986 as director of accounting.

Nancy Brown Rugh, 83, of Dixon, Ill., died Feb. 27, 2014. She majored in home economics and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. Rugh taught school in Barrington, Ill., for 10 years.

The Rev. James Snyder, 84, of Indianapolis, Ind., died Aug. 12, 2013. He graduated with a degree in religious studies and was a member of Crimson

Masque and Sigma Phi Epsilon. A Presbyterian pastor, his ministry spanned six decades in New York, his native Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana.

Marjorie Fuller Hiett Stempel, 82, of Huntington Beach, Calif., died April 24, 2013. A member of Pi Beta Phi, she graduated with a degree in English and taught in Whittier, Calif., for 27 years.

Richard Trowbridge, 85, of Rock Island, Ill., died April 2, 2014. He served with the 25th Army Military Police in occupied Japan before graduating from MC with a degree in English. He was a member of the golf team and Tau Kappa Epsilon. Trowbridge retired from the Mel Foster Real Estate Co. in 1984.

Richard Woods, 82, of Surprise, Ariz., died April 28, 2013. He graduated with a degree in English before receiving a master’s degree at Illinois State University. Woods taught in Illinois for 32 years.

Charles “Bud” Skov, 81, professor emeritus of physics, died July 5, 2014. Skov taught at Monmouth from 1963 to 1994, chairing the physics department for several of those 31 years.

Known as an out-standing teacher who challenged his stu-dents, Skov saw many of them go on to very successful careers. One of those students was Hiroyuki Fujita ’92, an entrepreneur who recently returned to campus to present a Whiteman Lecture.

“He was not only an amazing physics pro-fessor but a great and warm human being,” recalled Fujita, the president and CEO of Quality Electrodynamics. “I visited his office to ask him many questions after class

almost every day during my student life at Monmouth, and I enjoyed every occasion with him. Dr. Skov was always happy to see me and welcomed me. … (He) definitely influenced my physics career and my understanding of American life. I will miss him.”

Jeremy McNamara, emeritus professor of English, remembers his faculty colleague of 30 years for his “sensitive, thoughtful responses to the many issues the college faced during the varying fortunes of those three decades.”

In addition to his teaching duties, Skov was faculty representative to the Midwest Con-ference for several years and spent 15 months tenure as the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) representative at the Argonne National Laboratory. He had affilia-tions with SigmaXi, The American Physical Society, The American Association of Phys-

ics Teachers and the American Association of University Professors. He also served on the Human Rights Authority Committee for the State of Illinois, where McNamara said Skov was “a very effective member, well respected for his compassion and indepen-dent judgement.”

Skov completed his undergraduate work at his hometown college, Kearney State Teach-er’s College in Kearney, Neb. He then served his country in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956 in the Signal Corps. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Nebraska in the same year that he joined Monmouth’s faculty.

He and Ann would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 11. Other survivors include the Skovs’ three children, Mitchell Skov ’80, Norman Skov and Sarah Skov Hennemann ’90, and son-in-law, Christopher Hennemann ’91.

Edwin Trapp, Jr. ’53 of Dallas, Texas, died on Feb. 12, 2014, after an eight-year battle with the rare corticobasal degeneration disease. He studied eco-nomics and was a member of Theta Chi at Mon-mouth before completing his degree at the University of Wisconsin. He later graduated from

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Executive Program. After 17 years of sales and marketing management with General Electric, Motorola and DuCommin, he moved to Dallas in 1970 as president and director of Hall-Mark Electronics Corp. During his 15-year tenure, Hall-Mark grew from a small regional company into a national leader of electronic component distribution. In addition to serving on Monmouth’s board of trustees, he founded the Trapp Chair of Business Management and, in 1989, received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the college.


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1953Robert Adcock, 83, of Galesburg, Ill., died May 31, 2014. A member of Theta Chi, Adcock served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1954. He was a farmer and also served as director of building and grounds at Carl Sandburg College for 20 years, retiring in 1996.

Geraldine Johnson Bachrach, 83, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Sept. 17, 2013. She was the office manager for the Adams Corporation in Cin-cinnati, working there for 50 years.

Mary Jo Shelby Burke, 81, of Monticello, Ind., died Sept. 14, 2013. She studied English and was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. She was retired from the probation office in Merriville, Ind. After raising her family, Burke returned to school and graduated summa cum laude from Youngstown State University. Survivors include her husband, Charles Burke ’51.

Don McBride, 82, of Vero Beach, Fla., died March 15, 2014. He majored in economics and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. A veteran of the U.S. Army, McBride lived in California for 20 years after attending MC before returning to his native Monmouth to work at Hill Correc-tional Center as a food service manager. He was preceded in death by brothers Andy McBride ’34 and Jack McBride ’56. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Susan, and a brother, Gerald McBride ’58.

1954Ronald Boehm, 81, of Pekin, Ill., died Jan. 12, 2014. He majored in his-tory, played men’s basketball and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. Boehm taught in the Illinois communities of Greenview and Virden before settling in at Pekin High School, where he taught social studies from 1960 to 1985, when he became a principal. Boehm earned mas-ter’s degrees in education administration and economics from the University of Illinois and taught economics at Illinois Central College for 20 years. Survivors include his wife, Betty Beabout Boehm ’54.

Eloise Pierson Hamilton, 82, of Warren, Ohio, died May 10, 2014. She graduated with a degree in music and was a teacher. She was pre-ceded in death by her husband of 56 years, Collin Hamilton ’54, and by a sister, Doris Pierson Palmer ’44. Survivors include a sister, Marie Pierson Anderson ’40.

Marilyn Hilsenhoff Gardner, 81, of Waukesha, Wis., died Sept. 28,

2013. She studied English for two years and was a member of Pi Beta Phi. Gardner served as branch librarian at the Warren County Library. She was preceded in death by a sister, Carol Hilsenhoff Basinger ’52. Survivors include her husband of 60 years, who she met in a Latin class at Monmouth High School.

John Holliday, 81, of Casa Grande, Ariz., died Jan. 12, 2014. After start-ing at Monmouth, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega, he graduated from Worsham College of Mortuary Science. He operated funeral homes in four Illinois towns, including Monmouth, retiring in 1993.

John Shunick, 83, of Naperville, Ill., died March 21, 2014. He majored in history and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. A retired colonel with the U.S. Army, he was employed by two insurance companies, Travel-ers and CNA.

1955Susan Watson MacLeod Burke of Salem, Ore., died May 22, 2014. She studied classics and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She also attended Diablo Community College and UCLA. While living in Califor-nia, she was a property manager for Coldwell Banker in Los Angeles. Survivors include her husband, Arthur Burke ’52.

Mary Ann Hellemann Woerner, 80, of Pekin, Ill., died April 21, 2014. She studied home economics and was a member of Kappa Delta. After serving as a secretary and a receptionist, she owned and oper-ated Merry Bee Farm and Greenhouse in Pekin with her husband.

1957The Rev. Harold Bodeen, 91, of Mahomet, Ill., died Feb. 11, 2014. A farmer before enrolling at Monmouth, he majored in religious studies. He ultimately served churches in eight Illinois communities, retiring in 1987.

Donald Kilgore, 77, of Selma, Calif., died Sept. 23, 2013. While at Mon-mouth, he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon, and he later participated in baseball after transferring to Reedley College in Cali-fornia. He made his career in the dried fruit industry.

Gene Parker, 79, of Ballwin, Mo., died May 7, 2014. A business major, he earned a master’s degree from Kirksville Teacher’s College. He taught at Camp Point (Ill.) High School for 31 years, retiring in 1990.

1958Lyn Cameron Johanson, 76, of Valencia, Pa., died Nov. 20, 2013. An

Peter Nelson ’54 of Scottsdale, Ariz., died Jan. 22, 2014, at the age of 81. He majored in business administration and was a member of the baseball and basketball teams, the Octopus Club and Theta Chi. He then served in the U.S. Army, sta-tioned in Japan. Nelson began a distinguished advertising career in Chicago during the Mad Men era of the 1950s, rising through the ranks to lead such accounts as State Farm Insur-ance and General Mills. But it was securing the McDonald’s account for his Needham, Louis and Brorby agency that led to his life-long association with the Golden Arches. He worked for McDonald’s from 1984 to 1990, in charge of their domestic marketing and new country development. In addition to his time on Monmouth’s board of trustees, Nelson served on the board of directors for such companies as Del Webb Corpora-tion and Hamilton Stores. Survivors include his wife, Peggy, and a brother, John Nelson ’58.

Jerome Hatch ’57 of Chicago, Ill., died Sept. 2, 2013, at the age of 80. Around a two-year stint in the U.S. Army, he majored in business and was a member of Crimson Masque, Tau Kappa Epsilon and the Octopus Club. Hatch earned a master’s degree in business and embarked on a

long career in human resources for such companies as Deere & Co. and American National Can, where he retired in 1995. He served on Monmouth’s board of trustees and established the Hatch Awards for academic excellence among MC faculty. Survivors include his sister, Hazel Hatch Wharff ’49. He was preceded in death by brothers Harold Hatch ’46 and Henry Hatch ’48.

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English major, she was a member of Crimson Masque, the Pollywogs and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Survivors include her husband of 53 years, Thomas Johanson ’56.

Irvin Sprout, 77, of Roseville, Ill., died Feb. 4, 2014. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon and was a sixth generation Warren County farmer. Survivors include a granddaughter, Kimberly Lambert ’12.

1959Duwyanne Knox, 81, of Galesburg, Ill., died Jan. 7, 2014. One of 14 children, he served the U.S. Air Force for four years as a radio technician in Korea. A business major at Monmouth, he embarked on a career with Ford Motor Co., starting as a financial analyst and later transferring to Ford’s Aero-space Division in Huntington Beach, Calif., where he had the distinction of being named that community’s 100,000th citizen.

Karl Miller of Three Lakes, Wis., died Nov. 11, 2013, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He graduated with a degree in chemistry and was a member of Theta Chi. Miller received a master’s degree from the Univer-sity of Northern Iowa and taught chemistry at Maine Township high schools and Harper College. Miller bought Rustic Acres Resort in Three Lakes in 1988 and moved there permanently two years later.

1961Richard McCann, 73, of Wheaton, Ill., died March 12, 2013. He studied geol-ogy and was a member of the football team and Theta Chi. He founded McCann Industries in Addison, Ill. Survivors include his wife, Lynn Saber-son McCann ’61.

1962David Campbell, 73, of Crossville, Tenn., died May 6, 2014. A sociology major, he participated in track and cross country and was a member of Theta Chi and the Octopus Club. Campbell worked in the food service industry for more than 30 years, owning and operating several restau-rants in Colorado. He retired from Seneca Foods in 2005.

Bruce Stavenhagen, 74, of Ottawa, Ill., died March 17, 2014. He graduated with a degree in physics and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega. He worked at Libbey Owens-Ford Glass Company in several supervisory posi-tions before starting a second career as a teacher/tutor of GED students for Illinois Valley Community College. Survivors include a brother, Gene Stavenhagen ’67.

1963Mary Alice McLoskey Toal of Monmouth died May 1, 2014. She followed her father, Robert McLoskey ’28, and two siblings—Anne McLoskey Romine ’54 and Robert McLoskey ’58—to Monmouth, where she majored in physical education and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She served in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and was a teacher. Other survivors include her husband of 49 years, John Toal ’64, a sister, Marga-ret McLoskey McNitt ’67, and a daughter, Kathleen Toal Lee ’88.

1964Jack Garrett, 72, of Edwards, Ill., died Feb. 7, 2014. A physical education major, he was a member of the football, wrestling and track teams. He taught for 11 years at Metamora (Ill.) High School, starting its automotive program, then spent 31 years with the Peoria Fire Department, retiring in 2007 as battalion chief. He also owned and operated Garrett Brothers Construction.

Lawrence Keener, 72, of Kirkwood, Ill., died May 30, 2014. He graduated with a degree in physical education and was a member of the football

team, Sigma Phi Epsilon and the Octpus Club. Keener was a teacher and coach in the Monmouth area for many years. He taught building trades and was owner and head contractor for Keener Construction Co. Survi-vors include his wife of 49 years, Linda Schantz Keener ’65.

James Murphy, 71, of Camdenton, Mo., died Feb. 5, 2014. He graduated with a degree in business and was a member of the swim team. He went on to graduate from the Naval Officer Candidate School and served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He worked for several major compa-nies, including Sherwin-Williams and Alcoa, retiring from Castwell Products in Skokie, Ill., in 2004.

Harold “Pete” Westphal, 78, of Bondeul, Wis., died Aug. 18, 2013. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 5½ years, attaining the rank of master ser-geant. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, then taught and coached in Wisconsin before becoming a farmer. In retirement, he was a soil sample collector for 10 years.

1965Donald Moore, 77, of Albany, Ore., died Sept. 24, 2013. After serving in the U.S. Army, he graduated with a degree in history from Monmouth, then received his master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. Moore taught middle school in Crystal Lake, Ill., for 27 years.

1966Sandra Cisna Agvald of Minneapolis, Minn., died Jan. 19, 2013. She grad-uated with a degree in philosophy and was a member of the synchronized swim team.

Jerry Ponitch, 71, of Tempe, Ariz., died Dec. 29, 2013. A biology major, he was later involved with Emaho Foundation.

1967JoAnn Gulley Mortonson, 68, of Whitefish Bay, Wis., died Aug. 2, 2013. She graduated with degrees in English and elementary education and was a member of Kappa Delta. Her sister was Elaine Gulley Stansbury ’69 (see obituary).

Robert Rylander, Jr., 68, of Herndon, Va., died Jan. 10, 2014. He graduated with a degree in business and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

1968Richard Morrill, 67, of Merrimack, N.H., died July 17, 2013. He majored in economics and was a member of the football team and Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon. Morrill worked in the commercial finance industry for 30 years.

1969Sandra Cheesman Chmiel, 66, of Vandalia, Ohio, died Jan. 27, 2014. She graduated with a degree in French and was a member of the cheerleading squad and Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Richard Dunlap, 67, of Kalispell, Mont., died Sept. 25, 2013. He grew up in Canada and was a nationally-ranked ice skater prior to coming to MC, where he majored in economics. After earning his MBA from the Univer-sity of Western Ontario, Dunlap worked in three professions—the oil business with his father in Calgary, co-owner of the Palace Bar in White-fish, Mont., and an escrow officer at Sterling Title Services.

Terry Schneider, 65, of Grafton, Wis., died Nov. 10, 2013, after a coura-geous battle with cancer. He graduated with a degree in business administration and was a member of Theta Chi and the football team,


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earning induction into the M Club Hall of Fame. A standout receiver, Schneider tried out for the Washington Redskins and their coach, Vince Lombardi. He served a six-year assignment in the U.S. Army as a drill instructor and had a successful career in manufacturing at Out-board Marine Corporation. He later was employed by Bombadier Recreation Products, working in China and Mexico. Survivors include his wife, Susan Rayniak Schneider ’69.

Elaine Gulley Stansbury, 65, of St. Louis, Mo., died Aug. 29, 2013. She graduated with a degree in English and was a meber of Kappa Delta. She was preceded in death by a sister, JoAnn Gulley Mortonson ’67.

1972Mark Sager, 63, of Bluffs, Ill., died July 11, 2013. A four-year member of the Fighting Scots basketball team, Sager immediately embarked on a career in teaching and coaching, starting at Yates City, Ill. He spent the bulk of his career in Bluffs, teaching history and coaching from 1982 to 2010.

1974 Donald Helander, 62, of Whitefish, Mont., died June 1, 2014, after a brief, courageous battle with cancer. He worked for 36 years for Burl-ington Northern Railroad, transferring to Whitefish in 1984.

David Palmer, 73, of Cameron, Ill., died Nov. 18, 2013. He graduated with a degree in business. Palmer worked at Gates Rubber Co. in

Galesburg, Ill., before starting Midwest Hydra-Lines in 1980, working there until selling the company in 2006. He was preceded in death by a son, David Palmer ’87.

1976 Keith Morgan, 59, of Vernon Hills, Ill., died July 23, 2013. He majored in business administration and was a member of the football and golf teams and Alpha Tau Omega. He owned the Lake Forest True Value Hardware Store for the past 22 years. Survivors include his wife, Mary Campbell Morgan ’78.

1977 David Maguire, 58, of Orion, Ill., died Sept. 1, 2013. He studied biology before beginning his career at John Deere Harvester Works, retiring in 2009.

1982 Susan Bernier Crawford, 67, of Monmouth, died July 19, 2013, after a courageous battle with cancer. She graduated with a degree in ele-mentary education and received her master’s degree from Illinois State University. She worked in the Peoria (Ill.) school district for 15 years before serving as a director of special education for Knox and Warren counties.

Robert Buchholz, emer-itus professor of biology, died April 25, 2014, at the age of 89.

First hired as a biology instructor in 1950, Buch-holz was the last living member of a legendary biology faculty from his era that included Pro-fessors John Ketterer, Milton Bowman and David Allison.

After serving in the U.S. Army from 1943–46, Buchholz earned his bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1949 from Fort Hays State University in Kansas. The following year he received a master’s degree in zoology with a minor in bio-chemistry from Kansas State University. During the summer of 1952 he did gradu-ate work at the Hydrobiological Station at Put-in-Bay, Ohio.

His Ph.D. thesis at the University of Mis-souri in 1957 focused on the digestive systems of bats, rats and moles. While at Missouri, he met Bowman, whom he later urged to apply for a teaching position at Monmouth.

In 1962-63, he served as resident biologist for the Associated Col-leges of the Midwest at Argonne National Laboratory. After being promoted to professor in 1963, he served a year as an NIH Fel-low in the Department of Physi-ology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Buchholz served 12 years as department chair, beginning in 1967, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Eco-logical Field Station on the Mississippi River near Keiths-

burg, Ill.

Mike Salaway ’89, co-f0under of a suc-cessful sports rehab company, credits Buchholz as a primary influence in his decision to enter the physical therapy field.

“I had been a chemical engineering major at U of I,” Salaway explained, “and had returned to Monmouth College knowing I had science interests but not really sure what I should do. I went to see him about possible biology careers and was expect-ing guidance that would lead me toward becoming a medical doctor or teaching.

Instead, he talked and talked and talked about going into physical therapy or podi-atry. He even worked with Monmouth College administration to try to develop a 3/2 physical therapy program with Chi-cago Medical School.”

Dr. Stan Chism ’63 commented on the personal interest Buchholz took in his stu-dents:

“In 1997 I applied to graduate school at Stanford for a master’s degree program in liberal arts. An application requirement included an evaluation by a faculty mem-ber familiar with the applicant’s work. Even though 34 years had elapsed since Dr. Buchholz gave me a grade in a class, he was able to write an evaluation with-out opening his old grade books. Since I was admitted and graduated, I assume that it was a positive evaluation.”

Although he retired in 1990, Buchholz continued teaching through Monmouth’s Bridge Program until 1994. In 1996, he was honored with the Distinguished Ser-vice Award by the Alumni Board of Direc-tors.

Buchholz is survived by his wife, Mona, and three sons, including Mark Buchholz ’71 and Dan Buchholz ’76.

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1983 Layne McKee, 52, of Bushnell, Ill., died April 22, 2014. He studied physical education and was a member of the football team and Theta Chi. He was a teacher and coach in the Bushnell-Prairie City and Avon school districts.

1990Todd Porter, 46, of La Harpe, Ill., died April 23, 2014. He majored in history and was a member of the baseball team, earning second team Academic All-American honors as a senior. A social studies teacher at La Harpe Junior High School for 22 years, Porter was also a varsity baseball coach and held a master’s degree in school administration from Western Illinois University.

2000 Kristin Hawk Keane, 36, of Toulon, Ill., died Jan. 6, 2014. She graduated with a degree in business administration and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She worked at Proctor Partners Insurance in Peoria, Ill., the State Bank of Toulon and, for the past 10 years, as director of market-ing and development at Kewanee (Ill.) Hospital.

2001 Jonathan “J.P.” Schrock, 35, of Bellevue, Wash., died June 15, 2014. He graduated with a degree in topical studies and was a member of the golf and soccer teams. He worked for Republic National Distributing Co. Survi-vors include a sister, Tonia Schrock Woodward ’99.

2006Adam Riegle, 31, of DeKalb, Ill., died April 9, 2014. A residence hall director at Northern Illinois University, he earned a master’s degree at Illinois State

University after completing his history major at MC. A theatre arts minor, he was a member of Crimson Masque.

2007 Kurt Phillips, 29, of Bloomington, Ill., died Nov. 16, 2013. Survivors include his parents, Gregory Phillips ’82 and Rae Jean Meier Phillips ’82.

Word has also been received of the following deaths: Genevieve Ball, 93, of Maple Plain, Minn., died Nov. 29, 2013. Her late hus-band was longtime faculty member and dean Woody Ball. Also preceding her in death was a son, Gregory Ball ’74. Survivors include daughters and Janis Ball Durr ’69 and Pamela Ball Gustafson ’77.

Linda Nickols, 63, former clerk of academic records for 16 years, died Feb. 17, 2014, after a two-year battle with cancer.

1945 Dorothy Schumaker Long of Anaheim, Calif., died Jan. 15, 2011.

1959 Gerald Calhoun of Jamestown, Calif., died on Nov. 5, 2013.

1959 Diane Dunlap LaSpisa, 74, of Elmhurst, Ill., died April 28, 2012.

1969 Mark Kachel, 66, of Brown Deer, Wis., died Sept. 20, 2012.

1974 Carla Connolly, 59, of Midlothian, Ill., died Nov. 8, 2011.

1976 Marc Stolar, 57, of Corona, Calif., died March 4, 2012.

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Music is not just an alphabet or symbols. It is not just an international language. Indeed it is very difficult to describe what music is. Music is, in my opinion, a great way to unite people, as opposed to events such as war, which divide and tear nations and peoples apart.

Music can make the world beautiful. In fact, music has the power to reflect the mosaic of our world harmonizing our differences (and various voices and notes) into a continuous and evolving sheet of music—and performance.

From all that I have seen from being around the community of musicians I have met recently at Monmouth College, music can aid in helping us into looking at the world from another angle. Musicians, for example, do not always look to the financial, monetary and temporary things in life, but rather have the real desire is to see their students be accomplished and successful.

I can see the cheerfulness in the eyes of our cello teacher when her students give a beautiful recital. It is as if her eyes are saying she has just won a battle or the greatest prize in the lottery. Not only does she give herself both physically and mentally to enriching the power of music in her students, but she also devotes herself to her students so that they may always achieve in the highest academic levels.

When I think of my injured city of Aleppo, which has been torn by a savage civil war, I feel that music is able to be the remedy that can mend the souls of Syrian citizens. We should put our hands together and put in all our efforts to rebuild this city and country. Rebuilding the infrastructure is just one thing that be done with our hands, but rebuilding the humanity and deconstructing the antagonism from the minds of the people is another thing that should be done with our hearts. We really are in need of musicians as much as we are in need of engineers and doctors!

As a citizen of Syria, it make me feel heartbroken when I see what the children in my country are learning right now as they carry weapons and are encouraged to fight rather than to unite with their so-called enemies. In fact, we need to have musicians in Syria at this time and more than any time before. These musicians will aid the new generations to overcome and to emotionally survive the war. Having great musicians will definitely help those kids to

forget the harsh and mentally-taxing scenes of death and murder by teaching them one of the finest arts, music. I am not saying that we need to have the best performers in the world. It is just enough to have some kids who are excited

enough to learn to how to make music in order for them to possess a useful and interesting hobby versus possessing the hobby of killing each other over religious or civil differences.

The most important thing about music is that it is very pure and that it can repair and enliven the universal communities of the world. I believe that the power of music will help in publishing peace and love in the world. I believe that it can help remove the pain this world has felt, and can fill hearts and minds with hope and happiness.

Music will be able to make this world a beautiful place to live in, and can help the light overcome the darkness. Music is what we need now in order to learn how to give, live and love without borders.

Mariela Shaker was born in Aleppo, Syria. A senior at Monmouth College studying music performance for her second bachelor’s degree, she earlier graduated from the University of Aleppo with a major in business administration. She is currently concertmaster of the Monmouth Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Galesburg Symphony Orchestra.

WHEN I THINK OF MY INJURED CITY OF ALEPPO, WHICH HAS BEEN TORN BY A SAVAGE CIVIL WAR, I FEEL THAT MUSIC IS ABLE TO BE THE REMEDY THAT CAN MEND THE SOULS OF SYRIAN CITIZENS.

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